Example sentences of "[adv] as i have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The temptation must be resisted as firmly and valiantly as I have resisted the other , more obvious , more sensual lures and snares . |
| 2 | No , My Lords , I entirely disagree with the Noble Lord er furthermore as I 've already said we 're talking the builders site not the library in today 's question . |
| 3 | ’ She told it to them much as I 'd told her myself . |
| 4 | Much as I had enjoyed ‘ my Soviet adventure ’ it was good to be back in an English-speaking land again . |
| 5 | What happens there is that a ‘ really gay ’ reading of Coward is put into play , much as I have already done with Brief Encounter , but on the grounds that a homosexual writer can only write about homosexuality ( analogous cases would be the insistence that Edward Albee 's Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf is ‘ really ’ about a gay couple , or that Tennessee Williams 's Blanche Dubois is nothing but a transposed drag queen ) . |
| 6 | Bad industrial relations had been the curse of the country for as long as I had taken any interest in politics ; although the reform of trade union law was essential , further steps were also needed . |
| 7 | I shall refer briefly to one of the matters touched on by the hon. Gentleman , although I shall not speak on it for as long as I had intended , because the hon. Gentleman made wide-ranging reference to it himself , I congratulate him on that . |
| 8 | ‘ For as long as I 've had memories and before that too . |
| 9 | So long as I 've got somebody now there 's nobody along here . |
| 10 | You 've been plaguing the life out of me and everybody else for as long as I 've worked here . |
| 11 | When you have been teaching for as long as I have you 'll realise that it 's no good at all being kind to children . |
| 12 | When you 've lived around men like that for as long as I have , when you 've seen at first hand what they 're capable of , then you can come here and tell me how to handle my affairs . |
| 13 | When you 've brawled around for as long as I have your senses get to know the kind of fix that you ca n't just walk through or away from . |
| 14 | ‘ But after knowing you for as long as I have — ’ |
| 15 | I have been in favour of regional government for as long as I have been in politics . |
| 16 | Molly , Edith ( Harlow ) and I were talking about the Medauring in Germany started by Sofie Trappe , and I said we ought to form a group in England — Molly 's reaction was ‘ that 's fine Andy so long as I have nothing to do with the organisation ’ … so that year we formed the Studio Club . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm in good shape and I will sing for as long as I have the strength to do so , ’ he added . |
| 18 | Knowing him for as long as I have done must have worked in my favour . ’ |
| 19 | For as long as I have been conscious she has been out there in front of me , dodging arrows , triggering ambushes ; doubling back to brief me on the safest and fastest route forward . |
| 20 | I 'm afraid I ca n't subscribe to the theory that man should always be ‘ bloody , bold and resolute ’ ; but rather , I confess , that it 's very comforting to lean on you sometimes … more especially as I 've a funny instinct that if I follow your ways I ca n't go wrong , whereas my own existence is apt to be hardening , as you can see that it must be . |
| 21 | ‘ Go top of the class , Annie , especially as I 've had a look at your knees , ’ said Joe . |
| 22 | I thought my form had been good enough throughout the year to warrant selection , but there is always that niggling doubt , especially as I had angered Frank Dick by not turning up for a relay practice at Loughborough where he was engaged in running the annual Summer School for athletics . |
| 23 | The press were trying to build up a great rivalry between Ben and me , especially as I had never raced him . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , anyway … the last thing I wanted to do was to get involved in a fight — especially as I had the children with me . |
| 25 | I was really upset about that — especially as I 'd managed to get some of the best seats in the house . |
| 26 | ‘ My family has always helped me out , but it 's getting hard , especially as I have to give up work for four months . ’ |
| 27 | Erm so as I 've said things go wrong . |
| 28 | A lot of the women , young girls for the most part , came overland as I had , packed in steamers and trains like the fish they were to gut . |
| 29 | It was not as I had expected at all because living in the kind of commune that Mary Finnigan 's house was , there was n't a lot of time for romance . |
| 30 | After a terrible 15 minutes I managed to talk again to the same doctor and she explained that elevated meant they were not nought , not as I had thought , that they were going up . |