Example sentences of "almost [conj] [adv] as he have " in BNC.
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| 1 | " You mean come oop and — " ow you zay — zee you zome time ? " he said , in a good mood , making a silly French voice which he started to regret almost as soon as he 'd spoken . |
| 2 | Kinane , aged 30 , rode the Irish filly The Caretaker to win Europe 's most valuable prize for two-year-olds , the Cartier Million , in Dublin on Saturday , but almost as soon as he had passed the post to complete his lucrative double on Carroll House , who is trained by Michael Jarvis at Newmarket , the klaxon sounded ominously to indicate a stewards ' inquiry . |
| 3 | On 6 February 1771 , a Colonel Luttrell turned up at Mrs Cornely 's Masquerade at the Pantheon , London , dressed as a coffin ; R.S. Kirby , who was also present , recorded that Luttrell cast such a ‘ pall of gloom ’ over the proceedings that he was obliged to leave almost as soon as he had arrived . |
| 4 | The possibility of a long poem clearly inspired him and , almost as soon as he had settled himself with the Mirrlees , he began to work upon the next poem in the sequence . |
| 5 | He set off again almost as soon as he had returned to Hobart to make up for lost time on an overland expedition to Launceston and George Town , 60 miles from Hobart on the North Coast of the island . |
| 6 | When at last a reluctant taker was found he asked to be recalled almost as soon as he had arrived at his post . |