Example sentences of "[pron] as [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I as well but he 's still a load of water on the top . |
| 2 | Cos I I as soon as I moved here I wanted a catalogue and a telly . |
| 3 | But er when I as soon as I was fourteen I walked to and started working next day . |
| 4 | Yer muvver 's worried about 'er as well as me . ’ |
| 5 | You can think you know someone as well as yourself , but then you are caught up , surprised , by something they say . |
| 6 | May we learn to value ourselves as well as other people . |
| 7 | We sometimes surprise ourselves as well as our near and dear ones by suddenly exploding into unreasonable anger over a trifling offence which just happens to be the last straw that breaks the camel 's back . |
| 8 | It seems to be a pain in the neck me cleaning the sometimes there 's a lot of dog dirt , on yours as well as mine , and I , I and they were quite er happy to do that , yet it seems to irritate somebody over there . |
| 9 | And a mate of his as well and the kids . |
| 10 | Two of those numbers up there are his as well and a painting |
| 11 | The tent that was discovered had clearly been occupied by Bonington ; it contained his possessions and therefore leaves the possibility that the notebook could have been his as well as Joe 's or Pete 's . |
| 12 | I wish I was doing my as well and H E. |
| 13 | McLeish surprised himself as well as her . |
| 14 | The people backing it ‘ bunkered ’ ( disappeared with the money ) and as Producer Tiller felt morally bound to pay off all the artistes himself as well as to find their return fares . |
| 15 | These precious and fragile masterpieces in ‘ Florentine Drawing in the Age of Michelangelo ’ , which include works by the master himself as well as Leonardo , Raphael , Pontormo , Bronzino and other top names of the Italian Renaissance , will be shown in the Sainsbury Centre 's environmentally controlled exhibition space , its lighting system specially designed to display such sensitive material . |
| 16 | The content of the poem ought to be taken with several pinches of salt , partly because it belonged to the genre of boasting poem known as the gap which was a standard form of troubadour verse , and partly because William liked to mock himself as well as others . |
| 17 | Technically admirable , in that it saved the peasant from himself as well as from his oppressors , colonization demanded great expenditure to bring the land above the level of subsistence farming — an expenditure the liberal state of the nineteenth century could neither approve in principle nor afford in practice . |
| 18 | In himself as well as in her . |
| 19 | If he cut it below himself his object was presumably to save himself as well as his leader . |
| 20 | But when I bent down on some pretext and could see into his face it seemed possible that he was laughing at himself as well as flustered . |
| 21 | He told us on more than one occasion that he could not himself contemplate coming down from the House of Lords and denuding it of himself as well as its leader . |
| 22 | No , I 'm sort of I think he confused himself as well as confusing me slightly |
| 23 | The company recently valued its brand names , which as well as Spear & Jackson include Eclipse hacksaws , in readiness for a hostile takeover . |
| 24 | It 's a lively and cosmopolitan resort , which as well as being scenic , offers enormous potential to the sports enthusiast . |
| 25 | The town has many shops and pavement cafes , which as well as serving delicious cold beer , offer sinfully fattening cakes , pastries and ice-creams . |
| 26 | The problem is to develop a device which as well as demonstrating a high degree of efficiency in converting wave energy into electricity , is also robust enough to stand up to the buffeting and corrosion of the sea . |
| 27 | The teacher , too , as a fonctionnaire or civil servant , also has authority , which as well as the requirement to deliver to pupils something more or less resembling the words in the programme , includes also the authority to interpret , modify , supplement and extend . |
| 28 | The town 's main attraction is a thermal lake ( one of the largest such lakes in the world ) which as well as being therapeutic is delightful to swim in . |
| 29 | While the company was later to compromise on this method of operation , cyanide understandably enough having had its share of bad press , by suggesting gravity extraction ( which as well as being cleaner was also cheaper ) as a technical fix to the opposition to cyanide , the opposition had by then extended its attack to issues such as blasting , dust pollution and the contradiction between the short-term benefits mining would bring and the long-term development of the area threatened by mining . |
| 30 | In order to defeat an enemy who was always likely to be stronger in conventional military terms , the argument continues , what was required was a revolutionary war based upon a social transformation which as well as enthusing the population of Republican Spain might also have inspired to revolution that of the enemy zone . |