Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they and the families which ran them are now as much a part of local history as pits and shipbuilding . |
| 2 | You are not alone as I am just as confused myself . |
| 3 | Having said this , I am still as ever quite prepared to show any curious , doubting lady ( providing she be attractive ) that my credentials are in order … |
| 4 | ‘ I am still as excited about these plastic boxes as I was three years ago when I started , ’ she says . |
| 5 | ‘ You do n't think I 'm normally as effing calm and relaxed as this , do you ? ’ |
| 6 | This is our sixth series and I 'm just as intrigued by other people 's homes as any viewer . |
| 7 | I 'm , I 'm certainly as I was going to come on to explain and the way you will see ourselves working , is not people who sit in the Town Hall and just turn out reports , I mean the kind of work we do and the way we work means that were actually very much involved in the community groups , but I mean if it was , if it was thought to be an issue that we needed to have greater community involvement , i.e. to resurrecting that forum then that 's something that , you know , we may need to address , but I never saw it as operating like that anyway , I mean I saw it as it 's almost like in a cabinet of members mainly . . |
| 8 | I was just as engrossed in the sport 's literature . |
| 9 | I was there when they took the Enchantment of the Beastline and laid it across the Silver Loom , and I was there as it fell to shreds in their hands . |
| 10 | Last Friday I was there as usual with a few mates . |
| 11 | Have you come to scorn me , to poke holes in my skin with those rag-and-bone nails , or to console me , saying , Claudia , I know you , you are just as I am , you are a lonely dandelion , as I am . |
| 12 | I do n't think he knows what he 's giving me 'cos you 're just as addicted to them as you are to smack . |
| 13 | Because the real problem , Rory , my sweet , is that you 're just as attracted to him as he is to you . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm glad you 're here as well . ’ |
| 15 | You 're exactly as you were on the day we met . ’ |
| 16 | You 're really as well leaving I know |
| 17 | You were there as it happens . |
| 18 | Sophie well that 's not really a weird name but she 's there as well Bernie knows them all |
| 19 | Being a notable actress , she is just as compelling when the doubts have been sown : this Elsa , after singing a glorious , apparently contended Third Act duet with Völker 's sovereign Lohengrin , becomes appropriately disturbed and hysterical . |
| 20 | At the next session , will be chaired by Kay , and er , she will tell us what she is about as it were , erm , in a moment . |
| 21 | She should not and can not be sexually active in her natal family and hence is regarded while she is there as both benign and pure . |
| 22 | ‘ She confirmed what she has been attempting to gloss over in her bid to become deputy leader — that she is still as left wing as ever … a unilateralist in the mould of Tony Benn himself . |
| 23 | Their frustrations used to be articulated by Mrs Thatcher , but she is now as likely to be a cause of them as a cure . |
| 24 | But she was presumably as capable of lying as Ursula . |
| 25 | It was over as soon as it had happened , and as he turned in panic he could see that in reality she was exactly as before … except that she was looking at him now in a way that was more detached , stepping back as if to observe whatever he was going to do next . |
| 26 | Because if she had n't done it , if she was exactly as she appeared to be — warm , vibrant , witty , and sensual — he was going to have to marry her , and he knew it . |
| 27 | So here Belinda was , with that naked feeling she always got when she looked at her wet hair and towel-draped neck under the bright lights of a salon , and she very much hoped that Faye was right about the end result looking ‘ fabulous ’ , because she was determined to show everyone at drinks this evening that she was just as soignée , just as at ease in a smart social gathering as they were . |
| 28 | It was her family that were changing , she thought : she was just as she had always been . |
| 29 | It seemed that she was right as the Allies crossed the Rhine and swept through Germany . |
| 30 | Financially , she was now as they say quite warm . |