Example sentences of "[adj] as [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Huy conveyed this as best he could . |
| 2 | On we walk , discussing hobbies , like two old geezers , and she tells e how nice it is to talk to me like this as sometimes she feels she has n't got to know me as well as she would have liked . |
| 3 | Oh yes when I went to Stronsay Academy first we were very much kids for the country being all this country ones and often we 'd sometimes be and said some terribly wild and woolly awfully countrified phrase you know until pride sort of came to our rescue when we we got out of it as much as ever we could . |
| 4 | And in spite of all the synthetic man-made materials , we need wood as much as ever we did . |
| 5 | Naturally they saw less of each other , and Robyn was aware that this did not cause her to repine as much as perhaps it should have done . |
| 6 | After the event Melby was far more pessimistic : ‘ the sickening feeling that this was China all over again' and if , as he allowed , that in Indo-China French colonial policy was as intransigent as ever it may well have been reciprocated as High Commissioner Pignon and General Carpentier both admitted to Melby ‘ privately and with great reluctance that hatred of the French outweighed all other considerations in the thinking of all Vietnamese , whatever their political persuasions ’ . |
| 7 | As far as putting them up too early as well I say they get all dusty and you get sick of looking at them . |
| 8 | Our Liberal colleagues go down to Leamington and ask the audience to believe that they are just as Liberal as ever they were . |
| 9 | it came , it did it almost came to a halt again and it could 've been dangerous as well you , children in the back , two children in the back ! |
| 10 | A White House spokesman was quoted on July 21 as saying that the current stand-off between Iraq and the UN was " about as serious as any we have faced " . |
| 11 | But it is not as easy as perhaps it sounds . |
| 12 | As likely as not they were cottagers partially dependent on casual labouring , while not infrequently assessment on wages gives practical expression to the class of servants mentioned by the act of 1533 . |
| 13 | As likely as not we 'll blow a tyre , slew off , and become three small puddles of melted fat in a blackened and twisted plane wreck ! ’ |
| 14 | If you sit on a cliff edge on Sea-lion Island to enjoy your pack lunch , as likely as not you will be joined by one or more of these amusing birds . |
| 15 | Students and UB40s get 10 per cent discount , and likely as not you will find Lord Marks picking over the shelves . |
| 16 | Architecture fascinates Richard Serra , too : likely as not he will claim the whole of an interior space as part of his work . |
| 17 | And the result of their explanations was as satisfactory as even they could have wished . |
| 18 | He 's gon na find it hard as well I think , but on the other hand they have n't been communicating at all , you know , it 's not like |
| 19 | Were n't Liv were n't the easy team they 've had so far , they were , was quite hard as well I think , what you should of said , yes and I 'm Peterborough UEFA cup . |
| 20 | Red and green say on the bench and bench covers called bankers have been made for these as well they would be covered as well . |
| 21 | Mr Crosby said : ‘ I also have 10 important League matches left and have said all along that if we do n't win these as well I can not expect to be given the job here . ’ |
| 22 | I 'm fine as long it 's not too noisy for you . |
| 23 | This has proved the most useful as far I 've been concerned and the works I 've done in the works office . |
| 24 | Time they get it they 're good as past it ! |
| 25 | And yet , even though Alex gave a performance quite as good as any he had given in Taunton , he was not as good as Banks . |
| 26 | ‘ But keep on building your castles , she said , ‘ just as long as ever you can . ’ , |
| 27 | ‘ And dear Joe , you have the best wife in the world , and she will make you as happy as even you deserve to be , dear good Joe ! ’ |
| 28 | Perspicacious as ever I asked the council 's marketing director , John Howard , if he had then researched what consumers were looking for during the 60 seconds that were being removed from their lives for ever . |
| 29 | He was stationed in an old chapel in Chuckery because the Americans once they 'd started they were putting them everywhere or anywhere they could just get to be with them before V Day they were even in little chapels , churches , outhouses anywhere they could possibly and there were guns and bits of trucks on every spot of land where they could get them the er , I 'm getting out of context I was just thinking about a tank , a First World War tank that they used to have those as well in the field gun in the er arboretum which were disappeared soon after the war they went for scrap and they came and they used , people used to have a lot of wrought iron railings as well they took those as well they came along with burners and went off to the war effort , but er like I say the Americans and of course as kids they were very generous with kids and we absolutely loved them . |
| 30 | I 've watched those as well you think that ? |