Example sentences of "as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're the same as them . |
| 2 | The maid had retired , tossing her head at the thought of such low people as them gyppos having the sauce to interrupt the master at his supper . |
| 3 | ‘ The whole thing might not have ever got off the ground if Maxi Priest had n't been in the same room as them when I called up . |
| 4 | Most street sellers will drop to at least half price if you shout and wave as much as them . |
| 5 | It shifted the political spotlight from blundering Mr Major and allowed the Tories to claim that Labour are just as divided as them . |
| 6 | With the others I felt … on the same side as them because they were saying that they had been tortured themselves in a way , had been turned into animals , tools . |
| 7 | I ate the same as them . |
| 8 | Do you have as much influence as them ? |
| 9 | Many radical feminists see little point in attempting to change the education system because women are trapped in a vicious circle in which men keep changing the rules if women show any sign of becoming as successful as them . |
| 10 | He added defiantly : ‘ I 'm a Conservative as much as them . ’ |
| 11 | Same as them posh blokes what come here — they all want to be caned . |
| 12 | Both my parents smoke , and my sister smokes and I ca n't any longer be in the same room as them ! |
| 13 | I know that , were it not for Pa , she would not only feed it in her own bed , but have the thing sleeping there with them , in the same room as them , all night , just in case it should wake wanting more . |
| 14 | Mind , Uncle could be just as witty as them sometimes . |
| 15 | I was in there nearly three years , or two and a half years anyway and , of course , I when I passed to go to the Q M of course , I , I used to do the Headmaster 's and all that but they , they could n't teach me any more because you , you can only have the same lessons as them that have been taught you know . |
| 16 | He should have had the same chance as them , Church or no Church . ’ |
| 17 | We 've always thought that , that we should er at least be in the same label as them . |
| 18 | Yes we had er ships wh we , they call erm these liberty ships come in from America loaded with bombs and when they moved them up there , well they call them down here they call them liberty ships and er the bombs were loaded , so they used to erm put all timber between each layer of bombs and they had proper carpenters who would fix all these and when the dockers went down , they put these bombs out , cos they were n't detonated , the detonators were in the fore end of the ship , right down the lower hull and erm the bombs were loaded into open trucks loaded into , well the dockers they thought it was dangerous , cos we had the Fire Brigade , that 's the fire service down there and standing by with the fire engines and dockers they wanted the , they want a shilling , I think it was a shilling a day extra , well a shilling extra something like that and there they got it the shilling or extra pound , cos us crane drivers we were n't on the same par as them , so we asked for a shilling . |
| 19 | ‘ I want to be as good as them , the Pitts . |
| 20 | ‘ They probably had n't seen me ’ , observes Rowbotham , ‘ because I was n't as tall as them . ’ |
| 21 | She dressed me just as finely as them , and I was sent to a very expensive school . |
| 22 | But I ask you , John — apart from the fact that we always beat them , there are lots of reasons why we should get just as much publicity as them . |
| 23 | But she was not the same as them , she could not pretend to be . |
| 24 | Ensure a brighter f future for us as well as them . |
| 25 | They 're faster and stronger but in other ways we 're as good as them |
| 26 | He has sat and matched the former world amateur champions shoot up the rankings and said : ‘ I 'm glad to see them doing so well but it 's annoying when you know you are as good as them but are not able to do anything about it . |
| 27 | ‘ We really have to get at the schoolchildren so that they learn that mentally disabled people have every right to share the same community as them . |
| 28 | ‘ It will suit as much as them to have the fight later because it will give John that little bit more time to prepare after having his jaw broken in his last fight . ’ |
| 29 | We were as good as them . |
| 30 | So these people that had little private shops in them days did well because when the people came to the lodges it all the commodities were bought to as well as them . |