Example sentences of "as [adj] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | His voice was scathing , the twist of his mouth as derisive as she had ever seen and then suddenly , puzzlingly , he smiled . |
| 2 | She must be every bit as cruel as they say , my lady . ’ |
| 3 | The public infrastructure founded years ago when we felt rich patently does not deliver a quality of service we think we deserve — just at the time we realise we are not as rich as we thought . |
| 4 | ‘ But only because when we turned up at the solicitor 's to work out the marriage settlement — her idea , not mine — she realised for the first time that I was n't as rich as she thought . |
| 5 | Was our friend Sir Vivien as rich as he pretended ? |
| 6 | Reality , though , need not be as hopeless as we think , even if it does appear to take longer to recover from injuries and the task of regaining fitness seems to take an eternity . |
| 7 | ‘ My dear Paige , at my age , nothing seems as hopeless as it does to you . |
| 8 | Surprisingly , this task may not be as hopeless as it seems . |
| 9 | As soon as the first ring sounded he knew she was not there , that the sound of the telephone was reverberating through empty rooms , as lost and desolate as wind crying across a salt marsh , as hopeless as he felt his own heart to be . |
| 10 | On their wedding night he was drunk , and she was affectionate and clinging , and it was as hopeless as he had been predicting to himself . |
| 11 | The situation might not be as hopeless as you think . ’ |
| 12 | Once the researcher arrived though , Harrison was as friendly as you like , showed her around the house that he built himself , even showed her the pictures he 'd painted , and best of all , agreed to be a guest on Aspel and Company . |
| 13 | England were nearly as grateful when they dislodged anchor man Shaoib , whose solid batting played an almost as important part in Pakistan 's efforts to take a stranglehold on this Test . |
| 14 | Time magazine , as always reflecting the indoctrines of the Luce family and assuming the mantle of the responsible voice of America , recorded that : ‘ it was a scene as grisly as anything depicted in Polanski 's film explorations of the dark and melancholy corners of human character … and the most likely theory is that the slayings were related to narcotics . ’ |
| 15 | It is open to the parties to use a description as broad or as narrow as they choose . |
| 16 | He is then described as irous as he comes to tell his tale : Kolve contrasts the obsessiveness of sin and punishment in the Reeve 's Tale with the freedom and lightheartedness of his Miller 's Tale . |
| 17 | In the conclusion to Chapter 2 , I suggested that the gulf between the view of humans as free and choice-making , on the one hand , and determined by forces outside of their control , on the other , may not be as unbridgeable as it seems . |
| 18 | She wished she meant it as blithe as it sounded . |
| 19 | This last ambition may not be as absurd as it looks ; Sigistrix was , after all , the grandson of Theodoric . |
| 20 | In fact , the walking can be as strenuous as you want it . |
| 21 | I feel just as guilty because I have been here five Sundays and not come to church on any of them . |
| 22 | ‘ Sightseeing , ’ Sabine returned shortly , wondering if she looked as guilty as she felt . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | When my father tired of the pretence involved in this relationship ( for he was n't as weak as they had tacitly agreed ) he had hastened to the other extreme and married a woman who , as my mother was fond of remarking , you could pour into a jug . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | You can be as active or as lazy as you wish ; the important thing is that it is something you want to do rather than something you feel you should do ; |
| 28 | I can be as upset as I like , I suppose ? ’ |
| 29 | Most of the skulls and mandibles were still as complete as they left the pellet , with little loss of basal and occipital bone and slight breakage of the tip of the ascending ramus of the mandible . |
| 30 | I said smiling , ‘ If you always look as fabulous as you did on Thursday when you visit him I would n't bet on that reaction . |