Example sentences of "as i [modal v] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I want to make it clear to both of you — as I shall to Mrs Abberley — that any further information you come across touching on this case should be communicated to us immediately . |
| 2 | Marianne is me ; Eleanor is me as I ought to be . |
| 3 | To that end keep alert with all perseverance , making supplication for all saints , and also for me … that I may declare the gospel boldly , as I ought to ’ ( Eph. 6:18f ) . |
| 4 | Paige loves to play games , and sometimes I 'm not as sharp as I ought to be . |
| 5 | Just as I would with any other male acquaintance . ’ |
| 6 | Its my own personal opinion that the only true love and er I have to honestly say I 've never heard love here defined as I would as the totally unconditional love that happens between a woman and a child , probably from the moment of birth that bonds them through life , that 's the only love that I could ever admit to . |
| 7 | I mean , if our Whisky died , I would n't be as upset about it , as I would about these . |
| 8 | I had , however , already decided that I would do hypothetically as I would in practice for an Uaru tank — collect my own gravel and rocks fro the wild state . |
| 9 | Because I find that er I can talk to people now , we chat away as I would in a pub , or in someone 's house but then this is the bit that worries me . |
| 10 | Try as I might to be in the present , to subsume myself to history , to see myself as just another corpuscle coursing along the urban arteries , I could n't . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm not as young as I used to be . |
| 12 | ‘ It is n't that he has totally gone away , it 's just that I ca n't see him as I used to . ’ |
| 13 | I wanted to cut my hair short , and they allowed it for a while , until they discovered from a ‘ friend ’ that I am a lesbian , and then they tried everything they could to stop me dressing as I used to . |
| 14 | She 's not as soft as I used to be … |
| 15 | Not as young as I used to be ! |
| 16 | ‘ Give me a hand son , ’ Bert grunted , ‘ I 'm not as young as I used to be . ’ |
| 17 | If , as I used to , one cracks walnuts by banging two of the things together , and keeps the uncracked winner to go forward the next round , will one inevitably finish Christmas with the hardest nut to crack in one 's hand ? |
| 18 | I do n't use as many effects as I used to ; it 's pretty much straight guitar sound with delay . |
| 19 | I 'm not ashamed of my body as I used to be . |
| 20 | I no longer stand helpless before nature , as I used to . ’ |
| 21 | I do n't work as hard as I used to . |
| 22 | Not as strong as I used to be . ’ |
| 23 | I do n't heal as quickly as I used to . |
| 24 | I treat him badly , as they used to do to me , and he suffers , as I used to . |
| 25 | I can not start to live again as I used to . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm not as strong as I used to be . |
| 27 | ‘ Valencia , Alicante , Gandia — you should see the beach at Gandia , as white as I used to be — ’ |
| 28 | I do n't play at as many events as I used to but I still enjoy playing my musical instruments and entertaining people . |
| 29 | I now have a hell of a lot more time for people but at the same time I do n't seem to tolerate fools as well as I used to . |
| 30 | as I used to . |