Example sentences of "[pers pn] as [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I I you know I cope with them alright , I I I as you can see Doctor how many prescribed . |
| 2 | You know , if the erm that if the family think you 're going to actually take the child off them because they 're not looking after it properly , then I mean obviously they 're not perhaps going to be as frank with you as they might otherwise . |
| 3 | Hello , well this week it 's the turn of those listeners who 've sent in their queries by post and we 'll try and help as many of you as we can . |
| 4 | We do n't see as much of you as we 'd like to ( if we see you at all ) . |
| 5 | Neighbour , I called you as we 'd meet |
| 6 | If you attend that meeting I shall be forced to treat you as I shall treat the others . |
| 7 | Dear Friend , I embrace you as I would like to have done on the day you left . |
| 8 | I know it will give as much joy and satisfaction to you as it will to me , to know that we have played our part in this great crusade for children 's health . |
| 9 | Ana may confide in you as she would never confide in me . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , Jessamyn 's appearance has changed over the years , from her first arrests as a pre-teenager to this last photograph — please excuse the quality , it 's a blow-up from a spysat picture taken from an orbital pass over Arizona last December — which shows her as we must assume she is now . |
| 11 | The players sat as far away from her as they could , but the smell and the squealing promised to keep them awake all night . |
| 12 | Sitting down beside her , Michele pulled her on to his knee , cradling her as one would a child . |
| 13 | He left the sentence unfinished , reaching for her as she would have retaken her seat , drawing her into his arms before she had realised his intention . |
| 14 | Her developmental difficulties made this particularly bad for her as she could not generate imaginative ‘ healthy ’ play . |
| 15 | Just to deny her that role or restrict what she can offer the family to eat can be strongly resisted by her as she can lose her identity . |
| 16 | He ca n't love her as I can ! |
| 17 | I could see she was an unfit woman , and although I was resolved not to tell anyone now of my qualifications , except that I had been an ARP worker , I did try to be as helpful to her as I could . |
| 18 | ‘ Treat her as you would treat an amnesiac . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Be as good and kind to her as you can , Marilla . |
| 20 | No one will miss her as you will . ’ |
| 21 | By reacting in this way , Jane is able to stand back from the situation and it can not hurt her as it used to do . |
| 22 | So immediately , the reader feels that this is a good woman , whom any man should be proud to have as a wife , and therefore rather annoyed that the Reverend Crawley seems not to value her as he ought . |
| 23 | He eased her as he could . |
| 24 | The word flailed her as he must surely have intended . |
| 25 | Henry had always assumed that this was due , on her part , to an entirely natural physical repugnance for him ; she moved away from him as one might move away from a bad smell or a dangerous horse . |
| 26 | But doctors at Airedale Hospital , Nr Keighley , West Yorkshire were obliged by law to treat him as they would any other patient . |
| 27 | Or do you just want to remember him as they used |
| 28 | Many of the materials used were brought by the Israelites from Egypt ( 11:2–3 ) and willingly given , so that God 's tent might be as worthy of him as they could make it . |
| 29 | They stared at him as you might stare at orange rats trying to get into bed with you . |
| 30 | If you have the opportunity of an introduction to a particular barrister , find out as much about him as you can . |