Example sentences of "[adj] as i [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My first encounter with a badger , as a lad of 10 , was as exciting as I could have wished . |
| 2 | I believed at the time that I more or less grasped the metaphorical implications of this , but after I had put the phone down I found I was not as clear as I should have hoped to be about exactly what was required of me in concrete practical terms . |
| 3 | If I was a bird , I 'd fly real high — as high as I could — close to the sun where I 'd be warm . |
| 4 | I 'd heard Joe Walsh and Pete Townshend used them quite heavy , and I rather liked the tone they got , so I slowly built it up until I got up as high as I could be comfortable with , and I 've been using that gauge ever since . ’ |
| 5 | You know , that 's in the days when I was seventeen year old , I could go'n stick a fork into a truss weighing into eleven stone and pitch thet up high as you like with a fork , as high as I could reach . |
| 6 | But still , I must remain positive and as strong as possible and as self-sufficient as I can be . |
| 7 | In 1773 when raw silk was difficult to obtain , the owner of a throwing mill in Sherborne wrote : … having discharged many of my hands which are either starving , or are become burdensome to the town , others are incessantly crying for a little work and could they obtain but a morsel of Barley-bread they are happy , they very often go days with little or no nourishment … the continued cries of the poor people complaining for want of the necessaries of life as well for want of employment is shocking indeed … and what is worse the overseers are not so bountiful to the necessitous as I could wish . |
| 8 | It is — Some of my hon. Friends are not as generous as I would be prepared to be . |
| 9 | I have exerted myself to be as charming as I can be perhaps you will reassure me , Therese , that I can still be charming when I try ? ’ |
| 10 | Then she said : ‘ So you see , I 'm making myself as unpleasant as I can — and I assure you I can ! — to make them want to get rid of me as soon as possible . ’ |
| 11 | I 'll be as careful as I can , ’ she promised , then hastened back to the dining-room . |
| 12 | Mr is very different we must all be protected , I 've worked out my bill as the same as this year because no way shall I spend seventeen and a half percent more money I shall be as careful as I can and I sha n't starve and I sha n't get cold now I 've worked out that the V A T on my fuel bill is eight hundred and eighty five pounds , I 'd delighted if Mr could perform the trick and I need n't pay it , on behalf of the Duke of Westminster , the Duke of Rutland , I think I can also thank him . |
| 13 | She seemed to be getting quite violent as I could feel the van sway from her leaning against it . |
| 14 | Latin really was impossible as I could n't face a prose , but it was discovered that the Greek papers consisted only of two papers : |
| 15 | I hope that the hon. Gentleman had the opportunity to tell the gentleman that he might well see me in future as I shall be returning to the town in which I was born . |
| 16 | ‘ I tried to make the story as individual and as real as I can , and if possible to approach without any preconceptions , which is hard with Swan Lake because I have been associated with the ballet for 14 years . |
| 17 | I 'm scared that sometimes I go over the top with too many solos in the one song , but I try and keep them as simple as I can . |
| 18 | Jean said : ‘ I try to keep as fit as I can , mainly by doing aerobics and swimming . ’ |
| 19 | I completed another tour of the mill and cottage , this time with Nigel in tow , trying to sound as objective as I could , as if I , too , saw mere possibilities , but as our tour progressed I could see that Nigel had warmed to it almost as much as I. He pointed out some ‘ interesting features ’ that I had missed , such as some of the wooden working parts of the mill machinery set high in the plastered walls , and told me what they had originally been used for . |
| 20 | My work this year is very much on the ground — there will be only two abstract things — or three at the most — all the rest is objective — as objective as I can make it … |
| 21 | She 's not as soft as I used to be … |
| 22 | It 's really flipping cold today , so I get dressed as quick as I can . |
| 23 | I walk as quick as I can so Mr Jackson wo n't find me . |
| 24 | I walk as quick as I can , till I 'm nearly running . |
| 25 | I 'll be quick as I can . ’ |
| 26 | I 'll be as quick as I can and you 'll have to hope for the best until I get back . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'll be as quick as I can , ’ he said to Bernice and set off back down the passageway with Rosheen . |
| 28 | But I 'll be quick as I can . ’ |
| 29 | Chairman , you 've been so generous in this particular item and I 'll be as quick as I can . |
| 30 | Susan said well I 'll try and get rid of him as quick as I can . |