Example sentences of "as i [modal v] [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 — ’ |