Example sentences of "as [adj] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I feel just as guilty because I have been here five Sundays and not come to church on any of them .
2 ‘ My main aim when writing my essay ‘ Thoughtless ’ was to try to convey my exact feelings at that particular moment : to make the reader feel as guilty as I did .
3 But yesterday she said : ‘ My boss said the best thing would be to get back to work as normal and I feel better for coming in straight away . ’
4 Everything went on as normal and I tried to be as pleasant as I could and as loving towards Anne as I had always been , but she must have noticed that a part of me was absent : simply somewhere else .
5 I can be as upset as I like , I suppose ? ’
6 ‘ I 'll be as vulgar as I like .
7 I felt pleased of course , but strangely enough I did n't feel as elated as perhaps I should have done : not as elated as I had been after setting my British record in Madrid .
8 Did you not find it as strange as I did , that we should so immediately understand each other so well ?
9 Much later it struck me as odd that I experienced no superstitious fear or repugnance in the presence of a dead body , although I am so squeamish that more than once I have had to ask a neighbour to deal with a dead rabbit that one of the cats had brought in during the night .
10 It really should not strike you as odd that I have been enquiring into your affairs — if I may so phrase it .
11 It never struck me as odd until I had left school , that a school of girls aged from eleven to eighteen should daily be addressed as ‘ children ’ .
12 Bert and Duncan were as uninformed as I regarding the forthcoming events of the programme .
13 And once again he did n't put it as low as I wanted .
14 As a teenager , Sonique was an athlete for the North London borough of Haringay , after which she tried working nine to five but ‘ I could n't do that and be as free as I wanted ’ .
15 I was not perhaps as gutless as I had assumed .
16 At the rime his Jewish appearance did not strike me as peculiar because I had not yet got used to the idea of people thinking racially , but I learnt later that he was half Jewish and that he did this job to keep his Jewish wife out of trouble .
17 See if you think it 's as peculiar as I do . ’
18 I 'm on edge , I 'm nowhere near as calm as I seem ( when I read what I 've written ) .
19 I called , got through and spoke to a man who sounded as ordinary and as sane as I thought I was .
20 you know , the houses that have just got one wall and a little , or a garage which is higher than just about as high as I think
21 ‘ So has my mother , though she does not put him as high as I do . ’
22 I sang , pondering whether my thanks were as spontaneous as I had thought or whether I was just too scared to complain .
23 It is n't as painful as I thought it would be .
24 All through the '70s I 'd wanted to be in a rock band and I ended up doing it and it was nothing like as exciting as I 'd imagined it from reading and listening to records .
25 As my car moved through the area announcing ‘ Meet shadow chancellor John Smith as he explains Labour 's policy on fiscal and monetary reform , ’ I noticed that the town was not as crowded as I remembered it from only that morning .
26 ‘ The dragons might be there ; they might be real and they might be every bit as vicious as I 'd imagined , but I 'm a human being ; so was Adolf Hitler and he killed millions of people !
27 I refused to destroy her young life , and I 've left her as honest as I found her . ’
28 Getting on well with Matt — obviously there 's going to be some competition once we start work but he 's not half as paranoid as I thought he 'd be , a bit back-slapping , still I guess that 's Yanks for you .
29 Three young men with loop and stud earrings in one ear ( the lad on the Caledonian Canal fishing boat was not as individual as I had thought ) had three beefburgers and a pie each and then a chocolate KitKat with their tea .
30 As gruesome as I feel .
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