Example sentences of "[pron] as i [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you attend that meeting I shall be forced to treat you as I shall treat the others . |
| 2 | Dear Friend , I embrace you as I would like to have done on the day you left . |
| 3 | He ca n't love her as I can ! |
| 4 | I could see she was an unfit woman , and although I was resolved not to tell anyone now of my qualifications , except that I had been an ARP worker , I did try to be as helpful to her as I could . |
| 5 | Although I left him in no doubts about my opinion of his behaviour over the past few weeks , I was n't quite as brutal with him as I might have been . |
| 6 | It is impossible to express the Hopes , the Fears , the various Conjectures , and Reveries , that your humble Servant must undergo this important Season , I am like the unhappy Gentleman mentioned in the Guardian ; and can scarce endure the bare Pronunciation of the Letter S : The hissing of the Tea-kettle distracts me ; and if I meet a Goose , I shun him as I would a Lion , or a Crocodile . |
| 7 | I wanted to get far away from him as I could . |
| 8 | But Kalchu seemed familiar with the darkness and the narrow , winding path , and I followed as close behind him as I could . |
| 9 | ‘ It is n't that he has totally gone away , it 's just that I ca n't see him as I used to . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I want to get as many scousers on it as I can , and a lot of women ; I want it to favour women . ’ |
| 11 | Had I been asked to imagine myself as I would have looked during that time , you can be sure that I would have had the beautiful gown , the ruffled frill and the bejewelled fingers of a lady . |
| 12 | I saw myself , Frank L. Cauldhame , and I saw myself as I might have been : a tall slim man , strong and determined and making his way in the world , assured and purposeful . |
| 13 | Please pray for me as I 'll need all the support I can get . |
| 14 | But the threat of sanctions imposed by the United Nations is at the back of his mind , ‘ We have discussed it and it is of great personal interest to me as I would n't have a job . |
| 15 | But what John was saying this morning , and I think it was n't with respect it did n't come over clearly to me , as clearly to me as I would have liked , and I was determined to point was , what John was saying , the transfer of that , if that 's capital , the transfer of that capital should be made into the wife 's account . |
| 16 | If you find a suitable policy that does not specify that all the named drivers should be female , please contact me as I would like to add on , a 26–year old man ( with no convictions etc ) . |
| 17 | Marianne is me ; Eleanor is me as I ought to be . |
| 18 | But I got to write songs with Dave Anderson and Rab Handleigh for the first time and the reggae ‘ Interference song ’ which Terry Neason sang was a thrill for me as I 'd always wanted to write something for her absolutely amazing voice . |
| 19 | Over the next few years the Assistant Librarian , Miss Liddell , probably got fed up with the sight of me as I used to get through several books each week and must have read most of the stock . |
| 20 | Bilaleet was less enjoyable for me as I could n't get used to sweet vermicelli , but then I never liked rice pudding either . |
| 21 | I would be very grateful if you could give me any information on the tank and feeding requirements of these fish , plus where I could obtain some more literature on them as I can not seem to find any at all . |
| 22 | I sat by the phone and rang as many of them as I could , reassuring the ones who were home . |
| 23 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 24 | I wonder how many visitors to Liverpool can say the same of us as I can say of Glasgow ? |