Example sentences of "as [adv] [conj] i have " in BNC.

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1 When you have been teaching for as long as I have you 'll realise that it 's no good at all being kind to children .
2 When you 've lived around men like that for as long as I have , when you 've seen at first hand what they 're capable of , then you can come here and tell me how to handle my affairs .
3 When you 've brawled around for as long as I have your senses get to know the kind of fix that you ca n't just walk through or away from .
4 ‘ But after knowing you for as long as I have — ’
5 I have been in favour of regional government for as long as I have been in politics .
6 ‘ I 'm in good shape and I will sing for as long as I have the strength to do so , ’ he added .
7 Knowing him for as long as I have done must have worked in my favour . ’
8 For as long as I have been conscious she has been out there in front of me , dodging arrows , triggering ambushes ; doubling back to brief me on the safest and fastest route forward .
9 I wonder if I will get away with things as easily as I have on other serious falls and I wonder what it will feel like at the bottom .
10 Of course , he will have to cope with demonstrations , many of the less sober sort , but , as far as I have heard , he is doing this with massive inscrutability .
11 As far as I have been able to discover , the first papers in French West Africa to be owned and controlled by Africans were Le Cri Nègre and Le Phare du Dahomey .
12 The view of these two organizations , as far as I have been able to discover , runs something like this .
13 As far as I have seen , the BBC has not even seen fit to broadcast a single programme in his memory .
14 He suggests that ‘ as far as I have been able to grasp the concept , to be ‘ staff ’ means to have authority without having responsibility .
15 As far as I have been able to find out , it has no specific connection with Bristol but is named after Nonsuch Palace , which was built in Surrey near Hampton Court .
16 This process rarely runs as smoothly as I have suggested .
17 ‘ Well , then , ’ he said smugly , ‘ it 's just as well that I have worked something out for you , is n't it ?
18 ‘ I 've never eaten as well as I have on this trip . ’
19 ‘ I putted as well as I have all year . ’
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