Example sentences of "as i " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Not in quite the same way as me , probably . |
2 | ‘ I felt I could do that with you , but it was more difficult with her — partly because she was about the same age as me probably . ’ |
3 | Just say a man does n't earn as much money as me and he has to steal to keep his family , well , sociology says that 's OK . |
4 | Loving homo — the same as me not hetero — the other , ditferent … . |
5 | The shout terrified the bird as well as me , and I captured whitish streaks just discernible on an otherwise blank Kodachrome . |
6 | ‘ It is thoroughly and unutterably embarrassing that a stalker , a ghillie or a farmworker should be paying the same tax as me . |
7 | It improved when I made this close friend , who had some of the same ideas as me on things like sex , drugs , politics , music . |
8 | ‘ I suppose there are other girls who have had the same experience as me , and that my talking about it in this book might help them feel less isolated . |
9 | Nobody gets under them machines as fast as me . ’ |
10 | ‘ He was only doing his job , same as me . |
11 | The teachers are beginning to hate you as much as me . ’ |
12 | A Potteries child who was brought up by her grandmother and ‘ treated her as me mother ’ remembers how ‘ grandad always used to turn and say , ‘ I 'm not your daddy you know . ’ |
13 | The typical tone of memory , however , is very different from this : a special sense of love , even devotion , in the grandchild for a wonderful old lady : ‘ I treated her as me mother ’ , as an abandoned farm-child sent over from Ireland put it ; or a motherless Bolton spinner 's son — ‘ she were a love … |
14 | He did the same as me ; gave a poor reason and then a good one that was embarrassing , to stop us seeking further . |
15 | Talking about him with the others , I did find out that several other people had had the same experience with him as me ; that his lovemaking was done in silence , that he never said a word ( in fact with me he hardly looked me in the eye either , just stared at his own hands as he moved them over my body , not stroking so much as seizing and kneading me , holding me down too ) ; but then later in the night you would wake to hear him talking to himself , lying there fast asleep ( O always asked the men he fucked to stay with him all night long , always ) , fast asleep and talking out loud in the night , talking in a fast , furious , hushed , hollow voice . |
16 | And that 's my reason for going public now , to advise , WARN OFF , discourage other runners from falling into the same trap as me . |
17 | I am not even going to attempt to tell you why I was so attired , or guess at why fate should have made Donald and his equally well-equipped companions walk across that particular piece of wilderness at precisely the same time as me . |
18 | Sykes had been as cold and miserable as me , hoping against hope that I would surrender first . |
19 | It was something I 'd dreamed of since I was a boy humping golf-bags nearly as big as me . |
20 | This may sound ridiculous , but I have recently met a very nice man , the same age as me , similar tastes , sense of humour , not exactly good-looking but perfectly presentable , and I 'm wondering whether or not I should marry him . |
21 | I thought that maybe he had had the same idea as me only for a different reason . |
22 | I had no doubt he was the same age as me — his round face was not particularly lined — but he had the hairline of a ninety-year-old . |
23 | He was at least as tall as me , perhaps an inch taller . |
24 | The rest were not as aggressive as me . |
25 | alone as you , as me . |
26 | He would be in as much danger as me because if he shouted across to me , he 'd have been done for idling his time and gossiping . |
27 | Is half such a policeman as me . |
28 | It would be the same as me going to a medical conference or to the stock exchange and telling them where they were going wrong . |
29 | do His Brainwork in the same house as me Because |
30 | I put me 'and down , an' it slithered up on to it and up me arm as far as me shoulder . |