Example sentences of "[vb infin] as [adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You should know as well as I do the public can be a very difficult master ! ’ |
| 2 | Dana did not shave as often as I did . |
| 3 | She 's just come out of Saint Mary 's did n't do as well as she thought , or everybody else hoped she would do in her A levels , so is now retaking one . |
| 4 | " I am not sure I could do as well as you say in politics . |
| 5 | For several months the Hong Kong Sevens waited , hoping that the country 's two rugby bodies would unite as quickly as they had in some other sports — most notably cricket . |
| 6 | It does not necessarily work as quickly as it did in Sylvia 's case — but it always succeeds , provided the patient does his or her homework regularly and conscientiously . |
| 7 | If Lindsay had notes — well tough — it 's because he does n't believe as readily as I do what people say to me . |
| 8 | Without the work of these dedicated men and women the Church could not progress as rapidly as it does . |
| 9 | She 'd never seen anyone move as fast as he did when he put poor old Dan Pearson on his back . |
| 10 | Elinor was sometimes at a loss for the right word , or name , and then became impatient with herself ; she was often frustrated because she could n't move as swiftly as she did before . |
| 11 | But to be told that he could not make it was to be told that this gift could disappear as unpredictably as it had arrived . |
| 12 | Otherwise , what we 've built here could disappear as quickly as it came . ’ |
| 13 | The rains may disappear as suddenly as they arrived ; the pond may dry out within a few days , and so the whole cycle of breeding activity must be completed in the shortest possible time . |
| 14 | Whether it should happen as often as it does is open to doubt . |
| 15 | ‘ Suddenly we had a situation where money for the studio was no object : we could take as long as we liked . |
| 16 | It do n't take as long as they say . ’ |
| 17 | It 's gon na take as long as I thought cos I have to format it and install it . |
| 18 | First you are told that you can take as long as you like to put the counters in the jar . |
| 19 | Will the outswinger still swing as late as it did last summer ? ’ |
| 20 | And how many times , on re-entering occupied space , did the phenomena depart as suddenly as they came ? |
| 21 | Well I suppose you see maybe what they 're trying to do I mean as far as I know I mean previously the Inland Revenue or the valuation office part of the Inland Revenue they actually used to run a scheme where |
| 22 | I think it still is the way forward and I do n't think it was so much that things went wrong as that they did n't go as well as we had hoped for the women elections to the shadow cabinet . |
| 23 | 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 ) ’ . |
| 24 | Let him go … try and let him go as easily as you let me go . ’ |
| 25 | But yesterday organiers decided competitors could go as fast as they like . |
| 26 | They can go as fast as they want and there will be no restrictions . |
| 27 | She has such a thirst after knowledge that the more she knows , I verily think the humbler she is , and I can not help letting go as fast as she pulls as my son used to do to his kite . |
| 28 | However , with the Land Rover we can go as far as you want . ’ |
| 29 | She could go as often as she wanted to the clinic , but they wo n't come out to her |
| 30 | erm If United can play as well as they did this afternoon and Oldham perform as well as we know they can , we 're in for a really tremendous game of football . |