Example sentences of "not as [adj] [conj] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Mm , see him now , he 's about , well no no , not as tall as me , but built like a brick shithouse and he brought forward , brought forward for his rugby team , you know , and he 's erm , oh bloody hell , yes oh yeah , he 's very good at javelin , the old javelin , sorry . |
| 3 | I 'm tired this morning , but not as tired as I thought I would be considering two nights out . |
| 4 | ‘ Not as sharp as I needed to be , though , ’ she said . |
| 5 | Paige loves to play games , and sometimes I 'm not as sharp as I ought to be . |
| 6 | ‘ The truth is I knew throughout the summer that my game was not as sharp and I was not enjoying myself on the course as I did in 1991 . |
| 7 | Yours ( not as experienced as I 'd like to be ) , |
| 8 | There is , in fact , a good case for resisting the takeover of literature by culture , though it is not as strong as I once thought it was . |
| 9 | Not as strong as I used to be . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm not as strong as I used to be . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | he 's not as accurate as I am , no , but what I do I , I point mine up as well |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I find it so , it 's not as mellow as I like . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm not as young as I used to be . |
| 16 | Not as young as I used to be ! |
| 17 | ‘ Give me a hand son , ’ Bert grunted , ‘ I 'm not as young as I used to be . ’ |
| 18 | I 'm not as young as I was . |
| 19 | Not as young as I was nor as tough , either . |
| 20 | Not as young as I was . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm not as young as I was . |
| 22 | Not as far as I 'm aware at least not I 've read as to what would be the effect of that . |
| 23 | So far as I can tell , and that 's not as far as I 'd like , on the last few Fridays he 's not been going to any other bank or finance house . |
| 24 | Not as far as I 'm aware sir no . |
| 25 | Not as far as I 've just left them . |
| 26 | When I was much younger , and not as religious as I am today , I thought that religious Jews had sex through a hole in a sheet , wore clothes from the last century , and were generally out of touch with life and the world we live in . |
| 27 | ‘ Not as good as me , though , eh , Shelley ? ’ |
| 28 | It was not as good as I should have wished , partly because I was in a hurry , but also partly because I had not yet learnt — if I was ever to master — the technique of literary criticism . |
| 29 | ‘ I worked hard on my whole game last week at home , but it 's not as good as I would have liked it to be . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I was not as surprised as I thought I was going to be ’ , he said eventually , ‘ to hear myself pronounced clinically dead ! ’ |