Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [modal v] to " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm not as young as I used to be . |
| 7 | ‘ It is n't that he has totally gone away , it 's just that I ca n't see him as I used to . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She 's not as soft as I used to be … |
| 10 | Not as young as I used to be ! |
| 11 | ‘ Give me a hand son , ’ Bert grunted , ‘ I 'm not as young as I used to be . ’ |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | I do n't use as many effects as I used to ; it 's pretty much straight guitar sound with delay . |
| 14 | I 'm not ashamed of my body as I used to be . |
| 15 | I no longer stand helpless before nature , as I used to . ’ |
| 16 | I do n't work as hard as I used to . |
| 17 | Not as strong as I used to be . ’ |
| 18 | I do n't heal as quickly as I used to . |
| 19 | I treat him badly , as they used to do to me , and he suffers , as I used to . |
| 20 | I can not start to live again as I used to . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm not as strong as I used to be . |
| 22 | ‘ Valencia , Alicante , Gandia — you should see the beach at Gandia , as white as I used to be — ’ |
| 23 | I do n't play at as many events as I used to but I still enjoy playing my musical instruments and entertaining people . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | as I used to . |
| 26 | I then severed the last piece of shaft as close as I could to the head , and again found nothing untoward . |
| 27 | I suggested as gently as I could to Jean-Claude that he give Chaillot a ring . |
| 28 | The only way I could do this was to make myself as familiar as I could to the members of the schools . |
| 29 | ‘ I want to get as high as I am able to , and to contribute as much as I can to the team . |
| 30 | He says sometimes it 's a pain cos you get up and if I 'm late I 've got to rush around and go as fast as I can to school and you get cold and your fingers start freezing up so it 's not much fun . |