Example sentences of "as i " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Not in quite the same way as me , probably .
2 ‘ I felt I could do that with you , but it was more difficult with her — partly because she was about the same age as me probably . ’
3 Just say a man does n't earn as much money as me and he has to steal to keep his family , well , sociology says that 's OK .
4 Loving homo — the same as me not hetero — the other , ditferent … .
5 The shout terrified the bird as well as me , and I captured whitish streaks just discernible on an otherwise blank Kodachrome .
6 ‘ It is thoroughly and unutterably embarrassing that a stalker , a ghillie or a farmworker should be paying the same tax as me .
7 It improved when I made this close friend , who had some of the same ideas as me on things like sex , drugs , politics , music .
8 ‘ I suppose there are other girls who have had the same experience as me , and that my talking about it in this book might help them feel less isolated .
9 Nobody gets under them machines as fast as me . ’
10 ‘ He was only doing his job , same as me .
11 The teachers are beginning to hate you as much as me . ’
12 A Potteries child who was brought up by her grandmother and ‘ treated her as me mother ’ remembers how ‘ grandad always used to turn and say , ‘ I 'm not your daddy you know . ’
13 The typical tone of memory , however , is very different from this : a special sense of love , even devotion , in the grandchild for a wonderful old lady : ‘ I treated her as me mother ’ , as an abandoned farm-child sent over from Ireland put it ; or a motherless Bolton spinner 's son — ‘ she were a love …
14 He did the same as me ; gave a poor reason and then a good one that was embarrassing , to stop us seeking further .
15 Talking about him with the others , I did find out that several other people had had the same experience with him as me ; that his lovemaking was done in silence , that he never said a word ( in fact with me he hardly looked me in the eye either , just stared at his own hands as he moved them over my body , not stroking so much as seizing and kneading me , holding me down too ) ; but then later in the night you would wake to hear him talking to himself , lying there fast asleep ( O always asked the men he fucked to stay with him all night long , always ) , fast asleep and talking out loud in the night , talking in a fast , furious , hushed , hollow voice .
16 And that 's my reason for going public now , to advise , WARN OFF , discourage other runners from falling into the same trap as me .
17 I am not even going to attempt to tell you why I was so attired , or guess at why fate should have made Donald and his equally well-equipped companions walk across that particular piece of wilderness at precisely the same time as me .
18 Sykes had been as cold and miserable as me , hoping against hope that I would surrender first .
19 It was something I 'd dreamed of since I was a boy humping golf-bags nearly as big as me .
20 This may sound ridiculous , but I have recently met a very nice man , the same age as me , similar tastes , sense of humour , not exactly good-looking but perfectly presentable , and I 'm wondering whether or not I should marry him .
21 I thought that maybe he had had the same idea as me only for a different reason .
22 I had no doubt he was the same age as me — his round face was not particularly lined — but he had the hairline of a ninety-year-old .
23 He was at least as tall as me , perhaps an inch taller .
24 The rest were not as aggressive as me .
25 alone as you , as me .
26 He would be in as much danger as me because if he shouted across to me , he 'd have been done for idling his time and gossiping .
27 Is half such a policeman as me .
28 It would be the same as me going to a medical conference or to the stock exchange and telling them where they were going wrong .
29 do His Brainwork in the same house as me Because
30 I put me 'and down , an' it slithered up on to it and up me arm as far as me shoulder .
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