Example sentences of "well as i [vb past] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 I knew that voice almost as well as I knew the theme from Doctor Zhivago .
2 Well as I told you at you used to clip them that damn short and we when I was knocking them off , I had to keep dodging down , let the wag and keep knock clips off and chuck the one side and then the wagons came down They went down the hill like that , and then up here there was a hook line to stop them .
3 Well As I told you to begin with , he he he he must he was a man was er years ahead of his tim really .
4 Well as I told , told Rudy and apparently we both the same , I 'm not a sand seeker , I
5 Johnston said : ‘ It has not gone anywhere near as well as I expected at Everton .
6 cos these blooming policies are not doing as well as I expected
7 Well as I said , i am a convinced European , and I 'm perfectly comfortable debating European issues .
8 Erm well as I said to you today one of the things that you know
9 Well as i said earlier today
10 Okay well as I said previously what I 'm gon na do is go away and then I 'll prepare some figures for you and perhaps I 'll come and see you next week , okay ?
11 Well as I said er I , I 'll know that when you come back with , with the figures .
12 What started out as an objective assessment like ‘ That lesson did n't go as well as I had expected ’ gets recast as ‘ I made a mistake ’ which leads to ‘ I 'm a poor teacher ’ and even ‘ I 'm a failure ( as a person ) ’ .
13 Oh , yes , I got to know these well as I slunk past like a hungry fox in a deserted kitchen yard .
14 ‘ Not as well as I 'd hoped .
15 But I idiotically thought I could see Antoinette and Piers looking rather amused and I was sure it was because they felt I did n't know him as well as I 'd said .
16 You see , when Wolsey fell from power and died in Leicester Abbey , crushing my hand and whispering , ‘ If I had served my God as well as I served my king , he would not leave me to die like this , ’ Agrippa transferred his allegiance to Henry and brought those two witches over to build a special clock .
17 Well as I indicated earlier , colleagues , I now call the general secretary to respond to the debate .
18 Well as I indicated these forms are as unpalatable as they are
19 I think that 's why I got through life as well as I did .
20 From time to time , and I think mainly to keep in touch , Aunt Janie would ring me to ask if I could come to the house to help with a small task , such as fixing the cellar door , hammering in a stray loose plank over the cistern and so on — although she must have known as well as I did how useless I was at such household chores .
21 ‘ Right-ho ’ — and he knew the situation as well as I did .
22 McManus , who now faces Thailand 's James Wattana in tomorrow 's semi-final , said : ‘ If I play as well as I did against Stephen , there 's no reason why I ca n't go on to win .
23 Knowing both men as well as I did , I was one of the few who did not think there would be any major friction between them — both men were far too smart for that-but I did think Niki would find himself struggling for a primacy which he had long taken for granted .
24 However he knew , as well as I did , that the behaviour was not on , nor could he avoid school for evermore .
  Next page