Example sentences of "as [adj] [conj] i [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I fancy it comes from over reading , so I do as little as I can . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't have a car so I take as little as I can get away with , ’ she says . |
| 3 | Erm , because I 'm , because I do n't like dupl , I duplicate as little as I can , you know . |
| 4 | But I used it as little as I could , though if the wind stayed in the south-west I thought I 'd probably have to use it for the later part of today 's outing . |
| 5 | Everything went on as normal and I tried to be as pleasant as I could and as loving towards Anne as I had always been , but she must have noticed that a part of me was absent : simply somewhere else . |
| 6 | I realize that he encourages it , it 's a means of keeping me from being as discontented as I should be . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll be as discreet as I can , ’ she promised . |
| 8 | ‘ I was about as low as I could be . |
| 9 | I ca n't , because I ducked down as low as I could , controlling Armstrong 's wheel with just my left hand , the injured right tucked between my legs . |
| 10 | Not as strong as I used to be . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm not as strong as I used to be . |
| 12 | I 'll be as careful as I can , ’ she promised , then hastened back to the dining-room . |
| 13 | Mr is very different we must all be protected , I 've worked out my bill as the same as this year because no way shall I spend seventeen and a half percent more money I shall be as careful as I can and I sha n't starve and I sha n't get cold now I 've worked out that the V A T on my fuel bill is eight hundred and eighty five pounds , I 'd delighted if Mr could perform the trick and I need n't pay it , on behalf of the Duke of Westminster , the Duke of Rutland , I think I can also thank him . |
| 14 | I have exerted myself to be as charming as I can be perhaps you will reassure me , Therese , that I can still be charming when I try ? ’ |
| 15 | It is — Some of my hon. Friends are not as generous as I would be prepared to be . |
| 16 | Then she said : ‘ So you see , I 'm making myself as unpleasant as I can — and I assure you I can ! — to make them want to get rid of me as soon as possible . ’ |
| 17 | If I was a bird , I 'd fly real high — as high as I could — close to the sun where I 'd be warm . |
| 18 | I 'd heard Joe Walsh and Pete Townshend used them quite heavy , and I rather liked the tone they got , so I slowly built it up until I got up as high as I could be comfortable with , and I 've been using that gauge ever since . ’ |
| 19 | You know , that 's in the days when I was seventeen year old , I could go'n stick a fork into a truss weighing into eleven stone and pitch thet up high as you like with a fork , as high as I could reach . |
| 20 | But still , I must remain positive and as strong as possible and as self-sufficient as I can be . |
| 21 | I believed at the time that I more or less grasped the metaphorical implications of this , but after I had put the phone down I found I was not as clear as I should have hoped to be about exactly what was required of me in concrete practical terms . |
| 22 | My first encounter with a badger , as a lad of 10 , was as exciting as I could have wished . |
| 23 | ‘ I tried to make the story as individual and as real as I can , and if possible to approach without any preconceptions , which is hard with Swan Lake because I have been associated with the ballet for 14 years . |
| 24 | I 'm scared that sometimes I go over the top with too many solos in the one song , but I try and keep them as simple as I can . |
| 25 | Elizabeth Adams : ‘ I think perhaps I did not require from Somerville as much as I might here , fromJean Stanier : ‘ Somehow the fact that it was wartime put a sharper edge on things , as if we had to make the most of something that might not last ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ Not as much as I might have . ’ |
| 27 | He shook his head as much as I would allow him to . |
| 28 | ‘ Not as much as I would like . ’ |
| 29 | Not as much as I would like to be , however , as the night class I joined in September 1991 did not have enough support to run again at the beginning of this year . |
| 30 | I found cranking the boat over on its side did not help to turn it ( in the opposite direction ) as much as I would expect in a sea kayak . |