Example sentences of "as [pron] be [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 She 's not as sexy as me is she ?
2 PAMELA : I wo n't take the money , indeed , sir , poor as I am I wo n't .
3 So I said , you go and I said , do n't be as biased as I am I said do n't go there thinking oh there 's no way you know she 's I 'm better off with Sue and all that because I said you do n't know I said you
4 But if you 're married as long as I am you 'd hardly call it ‘ idyllic ’ .
5 Yeah , but you 're as tidy as I am you are !
6 Sturdy rogues intent on fleecing me , as I was them .
7 During the week he come back asking me if I forget about it and withdraw my notice but stubborn as I was I refused .
8 she , she said to me on the way o , er as I was I said look I 'm going to scoot now and she said well I hope you do n't get any unwanted company on the way back .
9 Young as I was it made a very big impression .
10 Perhaps it was important erm because as as as erm , as I 'm I 'm fond of saying that in history perhaps what you believe is more important than what actually happened .
11 Erm what I 'll do actually seeing as I 'm I get easy access to the town centre is I will go in there and see if they will agree to it , and if they wo n't
12 And as long as you 're I do n't care what star you 're following you 're not bringing those camel through my garden !
13 He 's not as old as you is he ?
14 I do n't think he 's I do n't think he 's interested as you is he really ?
15 But er I I hope that I mean Shirley as she is she 's not cooking but she will cook
16 As she is mine , I may dispose of her …
17 This man was hers , as she was his ; they were two halves of a whole .
18 Oh yes when the war started yes , you , you see the people would have been called up into the forces anyway people young enough to fly , who , who had an interest , because er one of the air displays I remember very much a tomboy as she was she they used to give pleasure flights and she had defied this pilot to take her up and make her sick , and he was took her up there looping rolling and everything and er
19 Especially seeing as we 're we 're moving away from the with the with the four to six progression for careers officers , we 're moving away from continued assessment post , part two .
20 And finally there is a third class of customer who knows that a brief telephone conversation with a skilled Matroc engineer and the subsequent follow-up are more effective than 50 pages of technical data — such customers are our life blood — as we are theirs .
21 I have for myself come to the conclusion that owing to the conditions which exist in the world today , having regard to the economic environment , having regard to the situation of our country , if we go on pattering along as we are we shall have grave unemployment with us to the end of time , and I have come to the conclusion that the only way of fighting this subject is by protecting the home markets .
22 After six months as Premier , however , Baldwin told the Conservative Party Conference that unemployment was the gravest domestic issue which the country had to face , and that ‘ if we go pottering along as we are we shall have grave unemployment with us to the end of time ’ .
23 yeah , well let me just read you two or three verses from Exodus , chapter forty , this is what it says then the cloud covered the tent of meeting and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle and Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud had settled on it and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle and throughout all their journeys whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle the sons of Israel would set out , but if the cloud was not taken up then they did not set out until the day that it was taken up , for throughout all their journeys the cloud of the Lord was on the tabernacle by day and there was fire in it by night , in the sight of all the house in Israel and if you were to turn over to kings you 've got a , you 've got a similar thing there with the dedication of the temple and as Be Ben was saying the power really it 's the it 's the presence of God , the shine , the glory , that cloud of , and so what , what , what catches the Lord Jesus up is really the glory of God here he is , the , the riseness , the glorified Christ being called up into heaven in the , in the glory , what he 's been glorified , so he withdraws his physical , physical presence from one place here on earth to present there on the throne and yet by the holy spirit to be every where now Jesus then , he did n't cease to be truly man at either his resurrection or at his ascension , he stays man , God , the God man all the way through and it 's still true today he is the God man today and that 's important for you and me , think of the very worse experience that you have ever had in your life , think of the very worse experience that could happen to you , with the exception of you know that of , of say total failure of some awful sin , the worse thing , maybe a loss of someone dear to you , someone very close to you , er , er , a bereavement , the most awful experience you have had well he has gone through , he has known that experience , he has , has tempted in all points like as we are he knows our frame , he remembers were dust and he has been there and it is a man who has experienced those same experiences that you and I experience day by day , year after year , it is a man who has gone that , who has walked that path , who is in heaven interceding and praying for us , we 'll stop there cos time has gone erm we 'll stop there , we wo n't go on otherwise I 'll get into trouble During this past month some of the questions in the New Testament , the first one we looked at you remember was that question that Jesus asked of his disciples , do you believe that I am able to do this , then we looked at a question which the disciples asked of Jesus , why could we not cast it out last week we looked at another question , are only a few people going to be saved and this morning I 'd like us it 's the final one of these questions not that there are n't other questions in the New Testament and scores , scores of others but were just looking at four er throughout this month , I 'd like us to look this morning for one at , for a few minutes , at one that Jesus asked of a man who confronted him , I 'd like to read a few verses from Luke chapter eighteen , Luke chapter eighteen I 'm gon na read from verse thirty five , it 's the well known account of blind Bartimaeus , Luke chapter eighteen and verse thirty five and he came about that as Jesus was approaching Jericho a certain blind man was sitting by the road begging , now hearing a multitude going by he began to inquire
24 Low and poor as we were we knew the value of brotherhood .
25 If we ask why many of our towns and cities are laid out as they are we find the answer is buried in history .
26 But that , with things as they are we might as well just hang fire
27 Fresh vegetable soups also feature on some menus — but delicious as they are you should try to limit those made with cream ( such as lettuce and asparagus ) .
28 No , they 're not as sensible as they are you remember in Prestley when we went there so what er , perhaps , especially for solid places , solid with the roads in Germany
29 still I like I 'd like them as they are I did
30 I could n't type , we had n't got anybody doing the office work in the detective staff , the Detective Sergeant used to do most of it , if he was not available I used to have to get an older detective to type a report out for me , and because I was a junior , they were not so careful in typing my reports as they were theirs .
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