Example sentences of "as i [vb mod] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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1 | Marianne is me ; Eleanor is me as I ought to be . |
2 | Paige loves to play games , and sometimes I 'm not as sharp as I ought to be . |
3 | Try as I might to be in the present , to subsume myself to history , to see myself as just another corpuscle coursing along the urban arteries , I could n't . |
4 | ‘ I 'm not as young as I used to be . |
5 | She 's not as soft as I used to be … |
6 | Not as young as I used to be ! |
7 | ‘ Give me a hand son , ’ Bert grunted , ‘ I 'm not as young as I used to be . ’ |
8 | I 'm not ashamed of my body as I used to be . |
9 | Not as strong as I used to be . ’ |
10 | ‘ I 'm not as strong as I used to be . |
11 | ‘ Valencia , Alicante , Gandia — you should see the beach at Gandia , as white as I used to be — ’ |