Example sentences of "[adj] as i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll tell you this as I sit in the centre of my maze and listen to the clear song of the thrush : the murderous soul I met at Maubisson was one of the most chilling I have ever encountered . |
| 2 | However , at the tender age of eight I was unaware of all this as I marched from the back gate of Canberra , across a narrow road and into White City for the Borough Primary School Sports . |
| 3 | The night sky was still fairly light as I walked through the village , passing close to No. 6 Commando positions . |
| 4 | Similarly , through Lata 's sister 's marriage to Pran you 're led into the world of politics and the subject of land reform , which sounded dull to me at first but became much more interesting as I got into it . ’ |
| 5 | It would also allow me to experiment as much as I likes with the interesting colours of the Winsor & Newton Artists ' Acrylic Colour range and with some of the techniques that are particularly well suited to the acrylic medium . |
| 6 | And then we went on to and parked at the start of and walked up one side and back down the other side and that 's as much as I saw of it . |
| 7 | Sorry as much as I know about Kelly is he is an Irish U21 international I think he played in Dublin in friendly against Shelbourne about 2 years ago and looked quite OK . |
| 8 | I hope you enjoy your bass playing as much as I intend to ! |
| 9 | I believe that no woman will ever again suffer as much as I have through rank discrimination in the police force . " |
| 10 | I HAVE never been as sickened by any criminal as much as I have by Nicholas Vernage , who murdered Sergeant Alan King . |
| 11 | I 'm not eating half as much as I did on camp and I 'm starving . ’ |
| 12 | I 've never looked forward to new stuff from any band as much as I do from the Mondays . |
| 13 | For someone used to the tiny creatures we get in England it was something of a shock , and I said as much as I leapt into the air . |
| 14 | ‘ You mean you want to be alone with me as much as I want to be alone with you ? ’ he enquired . |
| 15 | ‘ In as much as I cringe at the thought of making you sick a second time , yes . |
| 16 | I do n't feel alarmed as I know of many secret passages , but they have all become too small to use . |
| 17 | I never understand why the teeth of winter bite so cruelly down into the bone , how daylight sickens from the east , why Elsbeth is so chill as I lie with her , why the nights are so long , without word or gleam . |
| 18 | On a dry but extremely windy day I never once felt cold as I sat on top of Red Screes for half an hour munching through my packed lunch . |
| 19 | I step back , then turn and run , the clinging wetness round my thighs going from warm to cold as I race beneath the snow-shrouded trees towards the house . |
| 20 | After all as I tramped around the hillside barns in the frosty air I was working up a better appetite for my turkey than all the millions lying in bed or slumped by the fire ; and this was aided by the innumerable aperitifs I received from the hospitable farmers . |
| 21 | I lit up a Rothmans as I walked jerkily over the park , shivering , the cigarette rushed to my head and I felt better as I drew on it strongly , cupping the end in the palm of my grubby hand . |
| 22 | Within days it was obvious that the extent of the dissolution was every bit as great as I had at first suspected . |
| 23 | I began to see that my fear about Mary obscuring Christ was not soundly based as long as I keep to the parameters of Scripture . |
| 24 | I was surprised to be able to stand and read as long as I liked without feeling a hand on my shoulder . |
| 25 | Do you think I should have lived as long as I have on meat ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ You do n't stay in the business as long as I have without learning a little bit about people . |
| 27 | I gave them as long as I dared before cutting up a newsprint lorry and following them . |
| 28 | ‘ If they 're easy trousers , I can do maybe 30 pairs a day , as long as I start at eight in the morning and finish at eight at night . |
| 29 | When I stayed with my husband and children at the Holcombe Hotel in Oxfordshire on the Great Escapes scheme this summer I was told I would get free accommodation as long as I stayed for two nights and paid for dinner and breakfast at a cost of £33.20 each per day . |
| 30 | Yeah , as long as I look like her . |