Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [adv] as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was determined to carry on as normally as I could . ’ |
| 2 | They sit only so long as they continue to hold episcopal office . |
| 3 | Let's have a look at this year 's price list er it says nineteen ninety three but I say it 's carried on as far as we know er there are n't any at the moment increases . |
| 4 | Let hair dry naturally as often as you can . |
| 5 | And Clara , overcome by the wonderful , felicitous acceptability of his offer , an offer so familiar to her , so marvellously manageable , trembled only most slightly as she said , staring down at the limp arrangements of her hands , " Oui , surement . " |
| 6 | Right , what we need to do is to hit it fairly hard and try to get it damped down as quickly as we possibly can . |
| 7 | If we glued little pictures of galaxies to the surface , we would see that they moved progressively further apart as we inflated the balloon . |
| 8 | But now , the men on board ship above him were screaming , and with three holes fired on each side of the vessel , he gave the signal to bear away as swiftly as they could ply their paddles . |
| 9 | Ions are fine for probing electrically conducting materials because the charge they carry to the specimen is carried away as fast as it builds up . |
| 10 | The mortaring stopped just as suddenly as it had started , and it was quiet again . |
| 11 | Now that the rush of anger had abated just as quickly as it had risen she felt cold , icy tremors rippling along her veins . |
| 12 | But John , he noticed , tended to wander outside as often as he felt tempted to do ; while Astorre had set up house quite candidly in the kitchens . |
| 13 | ‘ But , Noreen — ’ But Noreen was already walking away as fast as she could in the direction of the apartment house . |
| 14 | Rosa slipped out of their bed , and , imagining herself on water , trod as lightly as she could ; her feet left moist imprints on the coldness of the tiled floor which shrivelled up as quickly as she made them , until she too vanished through the door . |
| 15 | Cal was thinking about having children , when she can act nearly as well as I can ! |
| 16 | " I shall have to pull up as near as I can and let you out , said Woodie . |
| 17 | Giles shouted back as loudly as he could . |
| 18 | I hope sa er , see of course it 's all question of getting it sorted out as quickly as you can . |
| 19 | ‘ That was seventeen years ago and she has n't as far as I know been seen or heard of since ; surely that adds up to a disappearance ? |
| 20 | Why did he spend his life making films that would be forgotten almost as quickly as it took to make them ? |
| 21 | Black staff should not have to train twice as hard as their white colleagues . |
| 22 | Once round the corner , I moved forward as fast as I dared , though the going was very uneven . |
| 23 | However , results of an experiment published just before Christmas show in clearer perspective than ever before that quantum theory holds good as far as we can tell . |
| 24 | ‘ Yeah , but I got away as fast as I could , ’ I said . |
| 25 | Clutching Elaine 's hand , as much to comfort himself as to protect her , he retreated by stepping backwards as unobtrusively as he could . |
| 26 | wants us to go over as often as we can and we try and and often as we can . |
| 27 | I love dressmaking but ca n't do so much now as my hands are stiff with arthritis . |
| 28 | Your salary will grow just as quickly as your skills and responsibilities — and that could be very fast indeed . |
| 29 | Along Heygate Street last night there was n't a pedestrian in sight and cars drove through as fast as they could . |
| 30 | He must have grown up now just as she had done . |