Example sentences of "[pers pn] as [pers pn] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But who or why or how , ’ he continued , ‘ is as much a mystery to you as it is to me , Sir Edmund . |
| 2 | We have an infrastructure that 's been built up over twenty years so er and you 've read our brochure and I hope it 's it was as impressive to you as it is to most people . |
| 3 | You come and go with your offerings of help and affection , knowing that what they really need is a constant presence , and sometimes this knowledge can be as painful for you as it is for them . |
| 4 | This one 's just as much of a prezzie for you as it is for him because it smells absolutely delicious ! |
| 5 | ‘ My Lady , I think he is as taken with you as you are with him . |
| 6 | ‘ They are probably as frightened of you as you are of them . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I think , ’ she added , ‘ that your father wants to be as proud of you as he was of your moth-er . |
| 8 | And so we 've got to desire to have our broken relationship with God restored , you see we need to receive what God offers in Christ , the fact that Christ died for our sins does not mean a thing to us until we say yes I accept it for me , I believe you died for me , I receive it , I 'm linked into it , you see your house can be , let me give you a very simple illustration , your house is linked up with er Eastern Electricity and there is so many er I du n no what , what the what it is , but there is the power there , the there are , there are kilo watts of power on tap in your home , but in the winter you 're cold , when it gets dark outside , it 's dark inside the cooker , the electric cooker does n't work , the fridge is not operating the food is going rotten , you ca n't watch a programme on television , why , because you have n't plugged into the source of the power , it 's as simple as that , you ca n't blame the Electricity Board , it 's not Eastern Electricity 's fault it 's your fault because all the plugs are out of the sockets and it does n't matter what the Electricity Board does short of blowing up your house , they can do nothing for you and it does n't matter what God has done in Christ until we as it were to also plug in , it does n't mean a thing to us , but the moment we link in , that 's the change , the lights come on , there 's , there 's heat there , the stove works , the , the radio , the television , the record player , they 're all operating , the freezer 's working , the situation has changed , we needs to receive what God offers us in Christ |
| 9 | Her life was as important to her as his was to him . |
| 10 | He was as bound to her as she was to him . |
| 11 | Was he thinking of her as she was of him ? |
| 12 | She felt sure that Freddie Nash was as in love with her as she was with him for there was hardly a day when they did not manage to meet , often in Jock Hallett 's cottage , where their mutual passion , already discovered at The Angel , seemed to intensify . |
| 13 | Marc Alexander Vila was as turned on by her as she was by him . |
| 14 | ‘ And I think she would find it equally credible for her as it is for us . ’ |
| 15 | Helen never intended her As It Was to be an accurate account of their young lives , and there are no letters because they met often . |
| 16 | He offered no words , though he thought words within , in the Welsh tongue , which had been native to her as it was to him . |
| 17 | That thorny subject , if he but knew it , was as painful to her as it was to him . |
| 18 | But even knowing that , we 're still as far from finding him as we are from the Holy Grail . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Hell 's teeth , ’ he ground out , ‘ were you as clinging with him as you were with me ? ’ |
| 20 | Mr Copley took an occasional service at St Andrew 's when Mr Smollett , the vicar , was on holiday , an involvement in church and village life which , Meg suspected , was as important to him as it was to the church . |
| 21 | She had been tricking herself earlier into thinking that he did , that their friendship was nearly as important to him as it was to her , but seeing him in the garden with Marise tonight , and hearing about his marriage , unhappy though it had been , had made her realise that friendship was never as important as passion — at least , she was sure , not to a man . |
| 22 | My meal was obviously not as important to him as it was to me . |
| 23 | It must have been as clear to him as it was to her that Jeff , most definitely , was n't acting . |
| 24 | I am as bored with him as he is with me . |
| 25 | It makes me wild when I think , it does really , that Gran 's as much taken with him as he is with the child . |
| 26 | Like Shujan he has had his training setbacks but Armstrong has shrewdly got enough runs into him to go for this handicap and his recent home form suggests it is worth taking a chance with him as he is on the upgrade . |
| 27 | Because the real problem , Rory , my sweet , is that you 're just as attracted to him as he is to you . ’ |
| 28 | We caught him as he was on his way to pick up a faulty music amplifier he was getting fixed . |
| 29 | I had to wait two hours before seeing him as he was in conference with a producer . |
| 30 | For starters , she had enough on her plate with Jonathan and her disillusionment with him , and , for a second thing , she was as uninterested in him as he was in her . |