Example sentences of "as [adj] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wish I could love her as little as I like her . |
| 2 | I feel just as guilty because I have been here five Sundays and not come to church on any of them . |
| 3 | ‘ My main aim when writing my essay ‘ Thoughtless ’ was to try to convey my exact feelings at that particular moment : to make the reader feel as guilty as I did . |
| 4 | But yesterday she said : ‘ My boss said the best thing would be to get back to work as normal and I feel better for coming in straight away . ’ |
| 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 can be as upset as I like , I suppose ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll be as vulgar as I like . |
| 8 | I felt pleased of course , but strangely enough I did n't feel as elated as perhaps I should have done : not as elated as I had been after setting my British record in Madrid . |
| 9 | Did you not find it as strange as I did , that we should so immediately understand each other so well ? |
| 10 | Much later it struck me as odd that I experienced no superstitious fear or repugnance in the presence of a dead body , although I am so squeamish that more than once I have had to ask a neighbour to deal with a dead rabbit that one of the cats had brought in during the night . |
| 11 | It really should not strike you as odd that I have been enquiring into your affairs — if I may so phrase it . |
| 12 | It never struck me as odd until I had left school , that a school of girls aged from eleven to eighteen should daily be addressed as ‘ children ’ . |
| 13 | Bert and Duncan were as uninformed as I regarding the forthcoming events of the programme . |
| 14 | And once again he did n't put it as low as I wanted . |
| 15 | As a teenager , Sonique was an athlete for the North London borough of Haringay , after which she tried working nine to five but ‘ I could n't do that and be as free as I wanted ’ . |
| 16 | I was not perhaps as gutless as I had assumed . |
| 17 | At the rime his Jewish appearance did not strike me as peculiar because I had not yet got used to the idea of people thinking racially , but I learnt later that he was half Jewish and that he did this job to keep his Jewish wife out of trouble . |
| 18 | See if you think it 's as peculiar as I do . ’ |
| 19 | I 'm on edge , I 'm nowhere near as calm as I seem ( when I read what I 've written ) . |
| 20 | I called , got through and spoke to a man who sounded as ordinary and as sane as I thought I was . |
| 21 | you know , the houses that have just got one wall and a little , or a garage which is higher than just about as high as I think |
| 22 | ‘ So has my mother , though she does not put him as high as I do . ’ |
| 23 | I sang , pondering whether my thanks were as spontaneous as I had thought or whether I was just too scared to complain . |
| 24 | It is n't as painful as I thought it would be . |
| 25 | All through the '70s I 'd wanted to be in a rock band and I ended up doing it and it was nothing like as exciting as I 'd imagined it from reading and listening to records . |
| 26 | As my car moved through the area announcing ‘ Meet shadow chancellor John Smith as he explains Labour 's policy on fiscal and monetary reform , ’ I noticed that the town was not as crowded as I remembered it from only that morning . |
| 27 | ‘ The dragons might be there ; they might be real and they might be every bit as vicious as I 'd imagined , but I 'm a human being ; so was Adolf Hitler and he killed millions of people ! |
| 28 | I refused to destroy her young life , and I 've left her as honest as I found her . ’ |
| 29 | Getting on well with Matt — obviously there 's going to be some competition once we start work but he 's not half as paranoid as I thought he 'd be , a bit back-slapping , still I guess that 's Yanks for you . |
| 30 | Three young men with loop and stud earrings in one ear ( the lad on the Caledonian Canal fishing boat was not as individual as I had thought ) had three beefburgers and a pie each and then a chocolate KitKat with their tea . |