Example sentences of "[art] [adj] as i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well the standpipe used to freeze up and er when that occurred the grown men in the house used to light a fire round the standpipes , of course it was cast iron it was n't copper or anything like that , and light a fire to thaw it out , I do n't remember ever being without water but we used , it was a bit primitive but burn newspaper and stuff round the standpipe and er the old as I say we used to , the water for the washing we used to pump into the sink and er fill the old dolly tub with water for the washing and use the rainwater for washing . |
| 2 | Or at least got hold of the basic as I have said , the best way to do this , is to sit down with a piece of pencil and paper and work it out yourself . |
| 3 | It would be the same as me going to a medical conference or to the stock exchange and telling them where they were going wrong . |
| 4 | well your mum said to me well I 'll tell you the same as I 've told Con but I said I 'm not against the children or anything the children |
| 5 | That 's how much that would be your share if we shared six pizzas between two of us and it 's going to be the same as I said when i said well you share with your mum and Natalie . |
| 6 | It 's all exactly the same as I left it . ’ |
| 7 | The tackle and techniques I used were exactly the same as I use for pike in the UK . |
| 8 | It was about it was the same as I 'd probably got if I 'd have gone to the pit at fourteen . . |
| 9 | If someone who said this was asked , ‘ But what do you mean by ‘ It 's afternoon on the Sun ’ ? ’ he might say , ‘ I mean just the same as I mean by ‘ It 's afternoon ’ on the Earth' . |
| 10 | I also said that if someone were asked , ‘ But what do you mean by ‘ It 's afternoon on the Sun ’ ? ’ he might say ‘ I mean just the same as I mean by ‘ It 's afternoon ’ on the Earth' . |
| 11 | we have had a letter back and it 's exactly the same as I got when I rang them up , if they just say it must not exceed a certain amount and they wo n't be tied down to tell me . |
| 12 | Donna 's leader on the DTS is the same as I had 5 years ago ! |
| 13 | And I had er had given myself a target of five thousand for Leith so I turned up the next and made my five thousand in fact I made five thousand and fifty signatures for the h and I believe myself if , if every branch were doing the same as I had been doing then we would have no problem at all in getting a hundred thousand signatures which is our aim . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ I buy them the same as I buy anything else and pass them on . |
| 15 | I used my house key , the same as I did yesterday . |
| 16 | ‘ I suspect , ’ Gloria said , ‘ he 'll tell them something the same as I did . |
| 17 | The same as I did mention last week , . |
| 18 | As writer back then , I used my IBM PC for word processing , the same as I do now . |
| 19 | I mean , we 've got this , it 's been on , Mrs , I know , she has the same as I do , but but er the the these people who need such help , I mean , I 'm not being it it it just it just they 've just not included in the programme really , and er , we 've written I think from this committee over the years er made submissions over the years , and message still does n't seem to have got through , that that that that er this , and I think very valuable work , that can contribute to the quality of life for all of us , if we can improve the lot for these people . |
| 20 | You think the same as I do ? ’ |
| 21 | If I 'm going to a club I will wear much the same as I wear for work . |
| 22 | I 'm fond of Cora-Beth , very fond , but it is n't the same as I feel for Madeleine and somehow I 'll have to explain that to her . |
| 23 | Mr Clarke said last night : ‘ What I said after the meeting was exactly what I said at the meeting and exactly the same as I have been saying since the White Paper was published . |
| 24 | If that is so , the end would be the same as I have reached by a more laborious , and perhaps more questionable route . ’ |
| 25 | As you saw fit to remind me before , you do have work to do , the same as I have . |
| 26 | ‘ Plus two years of good experience — the same as I have , ’ Sophie said calmly . |
| 27 | I 'd been caddying for Ralph Moffatt on the pro circuit and got him through the pre-qualifier at Fairhaven , so I told him I 'd be caddying for him in the Open as I 'd heard nothing from Jack . |
| 28 | Normally a sucker , I sat under the piano and chewed ravenously , ripping the cellophane off the next and the next as I did so . |
| 29 | and all this money that he 's got , ca n't pay a man a living wage , so but it 's a decent as I say , he 's lucky to be got a job these days . |
| 30 | it is part of the problem we have and I will say no more as I suspect our report of today will probably be in the daily press . |