Example sentences of "as [conj] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not as bad as that I know but you get my meaning . |
| 2 | Long I have lingered by the banks of the Ness , looking on the town clinging to and rising above its banks ; often have I gone to the castle hill to trace the windings of the stream , which was ever smiling back or reflecting the sadder tones of the sky , and to gaze on the distant land of mountain and plain ; and I have also spent many hours in rapt admiration of the sylvan pictures that render the walk through the islands on the Ness a walk of walks : it yielded a joy as deep as that I received from the walks on Goat Island , within hearing and seeing of the rapid-flowing waters of Niagara . |
| 3 | Nobody knew how to run the longer events , the advice we were given being the same as that I had pontificated for 80 metres back at the White City : start slowly and build up ! |
| 4 | Maybe it is for myself I mind , rather than for him ! 'T IS not so much that Richard is bound for sanctuary — as that I am denied such privilege . |
| 5 | If we play as well as that I do n't see why we ca n't finish them off . |
| 6 | I have been accused of favouring Transworld in the past , so I feel I must defend myself and say that it is not that I love Transworld so much as that I admire success . |
| 7 | I do not want to suggest that all this work fell into such simple methodological traps as that I have described above , though I suspect that much of it did . |
| 8 | Well I think as an early potato Stefan , I would chose from Rocket for the earliest , I would grow I think for as well as that I would go for Foremost but if you want a real waxy potato it would still be Arran Pilot cos now whenever you eat it it got a strong taste , whether it 's young or whether it 's old . |
| 9 | Well Fred 's got my Graham Thomas because it really is a superb rose but as well as that I would go for hybrid musk and I think of all the hybrid musk , my favourite is Felicia because of that silvery pink , lovely double shaped flower and that is very very heavily scented and I would have to have the bourbon rose the th the double white creamy white bourbon rose , if , you could almost eat that , that wo n't get more than about six foot and you can prune it to keep it in shape a bit if it begins to get too straggly . |
| 10 | I collapsed back into the armchair , almost as exhausted as if I 'd been climbing the Eigernordwand . |
| 11 | We shall see that , said I , and he answered unabashed , with the invisible instruments twanging and humming and jangling all over the room , ‘ You may see it , but you must not speak about this or anything that has passed here , for I have silenced you as surely as if I had cut out your tongue . ’ |
| 12 | I knew what he was getting at , of course , and I was so hurt that he should think he had to approach me in such a roundabout fashion — as if I was a terrible , uncharitable woman who had to be coaxed into a simple act of kindness — that I suggested it myself at once , though it was really the last thing I wanted . |
| 13 | I end up in exactly the same spot as if I had first walked four paces due east ( which is one sort of displacement , an easterly sort ) and then three paces due north ( which is another sort of displacement , a northerly sort ) . |
| 14 | It was such an odd feeling , as if I 'd lost twenty years somewhere . |
| 15 | As if I were — but I was , I realized suddenly . |
| 16 | I 'm about to invest in a brand new , superduper , anti-obsolescence computer and I feel as confident as if I were shopping for a pair of skis . |
| 17 | Fred I am worried with all that money you wo n't lose your head , there are a lot of clever dishonest people ( she means women , he said ) about these days , I brought you up as well as I could and if you do wrong it 's the same as if I did . |
| 18 | He gave me such a look , as if I was being really disgusting . |
| 19 | The demure Lily in her straw hat , a hat I could describe to you now , still , as well as if I had it here in front of me , the crown swathed in a pale tulle the colour of a summer haze … in a long-sleeved , high-necked , pink-and-white striped blouse … a dark-blue hobble skirt , beside whom I walked across Regent 's Park in the spring of 1914 . |
| 20 | Or something perhaps … moving through space forwards but back at the same time , as if I consisted of anti-matter for ever cancelled out … as if in all our words and gestures , acts and attitudes we effected some sort of parallel penetration into whatever had originated them , their primeval atom , with built-in unstableness. ( 107–108/303–4 ) |
| 21 | Now that should give me the same answer as if I do ten take away five so it 's take away a plus five , Yeah ? |
| 22 | I killed her as surely as if I had stabbed her with a knife , shot her with a gun , squeezed her neck between my hands . |
| 23 | It was not however , until I arrived in the country , and found myself surrounded by objects as strange as if I had been transported to another planet , that I conceived the idea of devoting a portion of my attention to the mammalian class of its extraordinary fauna . ’ |
| 24 | At any rate the effect was the same as if I had n't written at all . |
| 25 | In training though you can still have the same problem erm you know perhaps towards the end of the session you 've probably seen it as and I , I 'm guilty of it myself cos we 're trying to rap on through it as quickly as possible so we get in ya way by six o'clock or that so we break all the rules late in the day |
| 26 | Wo n't be as after I 've give him one |
| 27 | I have written letters explaining the problem , but as before I still have n't received any reply . |
| 28 | Moderator I I as before I 'm resisting this . |
| 29 | The same goes for O one of a gram for example , toxin and it gives you a hundred thousand er as as I 've indicated here , there 's a , a wide range for the potency . |
| 30 | The choir , and all about it , and the church I rather enjoyed because as as I were growing up most of the p people that came were the business people and the people that were conscientious towards that area , St. John 's . |