Example sentences of "and [adj] as i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I swore my pupils would never be restricted and repressed as I had been . |
| 2 | I think basically , if you 've got good colour sense you 're home and dry as I have said many times , it does n't matter how you put it together , but if the colours are superb , it 's going to look good . |
| 3 | It appears to have escaped Berkeley 's attention that not all imaginary things , for example a drunkard 's pink rats , are voluntary and lack the vivacity of the real thing , and also that , when I set myself to imagine something , I can make my ideas as orderly and coherent as I like . |
| 4 | In her heart she thought : Kind as she has been to me , and much as I respect her , your wife , my lord , is the last lady living to whom I am likely to apply . |
| 5 | And much as I coveted a wonderful watercolour by Albert that I came across in an Alice Springs gallery for 4,000 dollars I was even more taken with the traditional native art , particularly since it seemed to offer useful hints about a problem I had of seeing the outback in ways other than through the window-on-the-world vision that developed in Renaissance Italy . |
| 6 | So I just waited for the contact , and hoped that my voice would sound calm and easy as I told Famlio my lies . |
| 7 | She 's simply being as welcoming and hospitable as I 've always heard the Taiwanese are , and trying to help me feel at home and among friends because she knows what it 's like to be a newcomer in a foreign city herself . ’ |
| 8 | She stood , in her white dressing gown , looking as wan and bleary-eyed as I felt . |
| 9 | If those primitive attitudes had n't also been the determining factor in my own fate I would have found it as ludicrous and pitiful as I do now . |
| 10 | That part had been almost too easy , but I felt naked and exposed as I crossed the deserted space between the Grand and the hotels on the opposite side . |
| 11 | If you want to hang the decoration up , first make a hole through the ball with a knitting needle or metal skewer. then I like to spray the whole figure with gold or silver paint so that my added ‘ clothes ’ can be a delicate and fragile as I wish . |
| 12 | I already knew it was n't a good idea ; I could hear the tone of my voice rising higher and higher as I spoke the sentence , and that was always a sign I was getting into some sort of verbal mess . |
| 13 | I just kept working harder and harder as I did n't want to let anyone down and I did n't believe I would pick up a drink again . |
| 14 | I had another coffee ; I was confused , irritable and dizzy as I stood by the buffet and watched the station cleaners , suddenly desperate to be on my way before tiredness made me change my mind . |
| 15 | I knew you were heading for Dublin , knew which hotel , because Donal had made a great point of telling me , and so , when the dinner I was at proved to be as boring and interminable as I had known it would , I left . |
| 16 | The teaching is just as accurate and painstaking and thorough as I have found in previous years . |
| 17 | I felt proud and grown-up as I made my way down the road , concentrating my mind for what might be required of me . |