Example sentences of "[noun sg] get as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The play got as far as Wimbledon and then seemed to die . |
| 2 | Actually , Voight is rather too old for the role , and overdoes the wide-eyed innocence , especially in the last twenty minutes when the movie gets as soft as an overripe Florida plum . |
| 3 | The proposal got as far as a White Paper which suggested a two-tier system — life peers with voting rights and other members who could take part in debate but not vote . |
| 4 | In 1383 , the proposal got as far as a draft . |
| 5 | And the vehicle got as far as Hucknall Marketplace , er and that was it . |
| 6 | The results show that simply conjoining characters with and serves to facilitate plural reference relative to the ‘ with ’ condition , although this tendency is only a relative facilitation : under no condition does the proportion of plural reference get as high as 60% . |
| 7 | What you want to make sure is that with finite resources , each public spending sector gets as much as possible . ’ |
| 8 | In an attempt to change that , the Census Bureau has launched a vigorous campaign to get as many people as possible to answer its questions . |
| 9 | Let the older child get as involved as possible and point out how much the new baby loves her big brother . |
| 10 | Greg Downs says there 's no gape between the teams players in the conference get as much money as those at hereford |
| 11 | I ran down the pavement to get as far away from the hotel as I could , then I sat down in a doorway and continued crying . |
| 12 | She was a desperate woman , her incompetent attempts at blackmail motivated only by a desire to get as much money as possible in her new widowhood . |
| 13 | HOW 'S ABOUT FAT , THEN : The Duchess gets as far as raising a leg but then decides exercise is just too much effort and takes the rest of the sunbathing session lying down |
| 14 | ‘ Ever since my father got as far as the fourth fence when leading the field on Zimulator in L'Escargot 's year in 1975 , I have wanted to do well in the race , ’ he told me . |
| 15 | A harmonic got as far as Hrun himself , currently fighting a couple of gnolls on a crumbling ledge high in the Caderack Mountains , and caused him a moment 's unexplained discomfort . |
| 16 | So the idea is idea is that a kind of arms race will develop between the siblings to amplify the signal to get as much back as they can from , from the parent . |
| 17 | An important corollary of the present discussion is that circuit components of centimetre dimensions can properly be regarded as discrete until the frequency gets as high as about 300MHz ( recall discussion of this topic near the beginning of section 4.3 ) . |
| 18 | It was a test of manhood to get as close as possible to the board without a fin raking across your back . |
| 19 | You will appreciate that as Chairman I have not given up the fight to get as much financial aid and help as is possible to keep our heads above water ; we must fight to keep all that we hold dear and promote the Medau that we all benefit from both in health and fitness , and as teachers , financially . |
| 20 | Instead of taking the cases to the police , as he should have done and as any other hon. Member would have done , and certainly to the Home Office Minister , he found it more appropriate to come to the House and read from The News of the World to get as much publicity for himself as he could . |
| 21 | When he went off to the war in 1914 she took a job as an usherette in an effort to get as near as possible to the warmth of the theatre and away from the coldness of his family . |
| 22 | However , this must have been countered by an urgent request from Butcher as two days later Miller sent his servant with a note , agreeing to meet at Bedford House by four o'clock in order to get as far as St Albans that evening . |
| 23 | Instead of building massive shops which can be reached only by car , they rent small , cheap sites on street corners in order to get as near to customers as possible . |