Example sentences of "as [pron] [be] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her life was as important to her as his was to him . |
| 2 | So I 'm spending just exactly as much time on incoming and tea card collections , as erm , as I am on my training . |
| 3 | Just as I am drawing his attention to the point and beginning what I know will be a long and wearying discussion , Mirsal , who has been fighting the cabman about his fare outside , appears and lets loose such a torrent of thumbnail word portraits of the clerk 's family that , used as I am to his powers in this respect , I am struck dumb with admiration . |
| 4 | However , the point you have to erm , recall , is that if it 's a conflict between parental investment in a sibling and parental investment in myself , I am twice as closely related to myself as I am to my sibling . |
| 5 | Not half as much as I am of you ! thought Henry , as he ran his eyes down the rest of the manuscript ( she must have written it before going to sleep ) . |
| 6 | I think perhaps I must try never to go away unless with you — And yet I know when you are out at supper with others , that you are all the time thinking of me , as I am of you ( and last evening in the hansom ! |
| 7 | Confident as I am of your Lordship 's view , the parties agreed to trial by jury ’ . |
| 8 | As long as I am with you , I can be sure that you will not be led astray by the demon drink . ’ |
| 9 | ( Or groundsperson , as you quickly modified it to , though let me assure you grateful as I am for your awareness of the issues involved that I have no simplistic sensibilities to be offended in this area . ) |
| 10 | Please ( grovel grovel grovel ) help me as I am at my wits ' end with all this shit . |
| 11 | ‘ Flattered as I am by your confidence , Extremis , I 'm afraid the situation is getting complicated . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I wish , ’ he murmured , ‘ I 'm not Superman , you know , and , flattered as I am by your assumptions , the truth is I 'm usually too busy for socialising . |
| 13 | Now I had always supposed I had travelled very little , restricted as I am by my responsibilities in the house , but of course , over time , one does make various excursions for one professional reason or another , and it would seem I have become much more acquainted with those neighbouring districts than I had realized . |
| 14 | So she is as interested as I am in our surroundings : china cabinets full of dishes and ornaments inherited from the households of several unknown and long-dead cousins , armchairs with bloated cushions , a piano that no one has played in forty years . |
| 15 | Admittedly there 's nothing else as inane as the tale of Froggie and Miss Mousey among the 13 tracks on Good As I Been To You ( Columbia ) — but neither is there anything actually written by Dylan . |
| 16 | But it 's the difference between the wheezing , cracked , crumbling voice on ‘ Good As I Been To You ’ and the supine , delicate wonderment of Young 's voice on ‘ Harvest Moon ’ which marks the astonishing chasm between the two albums . |
| 17 | He was as anxious as I was about our journey to Glastonbury and the next morning we went down to the palace refectory feeling heavy-eyed and sluggish . |
| 18 | Acquainted as I was with his peculiar notions on the subject , I could not help saying , ‘ My dear sir , you must be cold , thus exposed ’ , and he said ‘ No , I have plenty of clothes on my bed , a large fire in my room , and with this pure air passing freely to my lungs , I shall live a few hours longer : but to-day , I think , is my last . |
| 19 | You know I 'd be happy on a bicycle as long as I was with you . ’ |
| 20 | I wanted you to be as much in love with me as I was with you . ’ |
| 21 | Do you think I could have been as I was with you if I was already heavily involved with someone else ? ’ |
| 22 | There is no one here who cares for me or will look out for me and I must shift for myself in everything which is not easy now I am big with child and not well as I was with my first-born . |
| 23 | as I was at my bedroom window |
| 24 | Your letter arrived early last week — Tuesday — and I picked it up as I was on my way out of the guest house where I 'm staying at the moment . |
| 25 | ‘ As I was on my way to the wedding ’ ( pause ) . |
| 26 | I agreed to pass on the message as I was on my way to Make-up . ’ |
| 27 | He did have ( and I know this as I was on his staff at the time ) some sympathy with Coastal Command in view of its flight in the Atlantic , particularly in the Western Approaches and more especially in what was called the " black pit " , this was an area in the Atlantic where the RAF could not give air cover to the convoys either from Ireland . |
| 28 | Why , you were as hot for me as I was for you ! ’ |
| 29 | It became apparent that he was as aware of me as I was of him . |
| 30 | I said , ‘ Ssshh ’ , cravenly , for I was scared of her , although not as scared as I was of my own parent . |