Example sentences of "as [adj] [conj] i [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | I was not perhaps as gutless as I had assumed . |
| 3 | I sang , pondering whether my thanks were as spontaneous as I had thought or whether I was just too scared to complain . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was n't as dark as I 'd expected . |
| 8 | The hall at Blackpool is ideally suited to rousing speeches but is totally wrong as the setting for a question-and-answer session — which proved to be just as appalling as I had feared . |
| 9 | And in one respect it 's not quite erm as straightforward as I 've made it appear , and perhaps after all I 'm not wrong in making the claim I did , because E P Thompson , the historian , erm was the person who really made the discovery in the first place , and it came about because he had been interested in the possible links between the Muddletonians and Blake , and this led him to ask questions which , in a roundabout way , led to the discovery of the archive . |
| 10 | The precision of Hilaire 's placing was constantly astonishing and in an air-borne rond de jambe Guillem 's long lean line was as breathtaking as I 've seen it . |
| 11 | It might not be as soft as I 've led Richie to believe . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I am glad , at any rate , that you do not find your position here as irksome as I had supposed . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It was as hard as I 've practised in a long time , ’ said the Ryder Cup player . |
| 14 | Two years ago , I went on holiday to the States and witnessed scenes in clubs that made me realize women were n't as inhibited as I 'd thought . |
| 15 | I hope you enjoyed that discussion I mean well first of all if you live in the Selby area it 's been of relevance to you and you 've managed to hear what both sides are saying but I I hope even if you do n't live in the Selby area it 's er you 've er found it as fascinating as I have to hear the pros and cons of such a complex issue . |
| 16 | Everybody is contributing and the atmosphere in the side is as good as I 've known it . ’ |
| 17 | I am studying acting , but that 's as far as I 've gone . |
| 18 | ‘ That 's as far as I 've got with this bit . ’ |
| 19 | But er I 've just finished Treasure Island with my daughter , that 's as far as I 've got . |
| 20 | She was also the Stationmaster 's daughter , you see , and we used to talk to each other telephone you see and erm , well that 's as far as I 've got now . |
| 21 | Now , that 's more or less as far as I 've got , I mean I can go on . |
| 22 | That is as far as I have got . ’ |
| 23 | That is as far as I want to go in drawing morals from Biomorph Land . |
| 24 | Well that 's as far as I want to go with this , this particular topic , erm as is my practice I 'm ending now so that we can have questions . |
| 25 | ‘ There 's a motel here , and this is as far as I want to drive today . ’ |
| 26 | Even I had come to realise we were n't as compatible as I 'd thought we were . |
| 27 | The 27-year-old Spaniard , who has won twice on the US Tour in the past , added : ‘ The rough is still too high for my liking , but is not set up as difficult as I 've seen US Open courses . |
| 28 | But once I 'd taken the plunge and got myself organised , I found it was n't bad at all , and not nearly as difficult as I 'd imagined . ’ |
| 29 | It is n't as difficult as I 'd thought , because I have found how to … |
| 30 | This is as close as I have felt to Cambridgeshire for some considerable time . ’ |