Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [adv] as [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone got down very quickly as another shell exploded in the front garden of a cottage across the road . |
| 2 | Then , serious again , he continued soberly , ‘ Anyway , as I wuz sayin' , I do n't think we 've anythin' to worry about as far as this Angel One fella 's concerned . |
| 3 | Although at poolside their disabilities were obvious , in the water they were simply swimmers , competing just as keenly as more able-bodied athletes . |
| 4 | Still-lifes on tables , dresser tops , window sills and mantelpieces can be improvised just as successfully as those on walls . |
| 5 | JR was suspicious by nature , and even more so when figures came together as easily as this . |
| 6 | I tuned in halfway through as this guy was complaining about the official . |
| 7 | Things do n't always work out as well as that : ‘ Dear Sir , ’ wrote a client to a Thomas Cook branch manager in 1965 , ‘ Will you please cancel travel arrangements made by Mr — for October 3rd as the wedding has been cancelled because he is already married . ’ |
| 8 | Things do not always work out as simply as that , of course , but knowing the rules and drawing clear lines before the game starts are essential if misunderstandings are to be avoided . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't think things have got quite as far as that yet : ’ |
| 10 | I shall have another word to say about him , you 're not getting off as lightly as that Alan , er , but erm , I , I think that erm , what I should now do , is to invite him , as our Chairman over the year in question , to er , move the adoption of the Annual Report . |
| 11 | Thanks to the locking tuners , the EG 's trem performs just as well as that on the top-of-the-range Artist costing around £2,000 more ! |
| 12 | When the handicap player copies the picture and ‘ freezes ’ his movement , he might as well only swing back as far as that . |
| 13 | I knew he could punch but I did n't know Razor could go down as quickly as that . ’ |
| 14 | There is one poem in which the I dominates to a remarkable extent and which , since it has been read literally , might seem an exception to my argument , namely 62 : If one reads only as far as this point , or reads the rest of the poem inattentively , one might indeed take this as an attack by the poet on his own narcissism . |
| 15 | The Sound of Music : Newcastle Theatre Royal ANY production of this popular classic has its work cut out as far as most critics are concerned . |
| 16 | Again Balfour 's account is in substantial agreement , although he adds the gloss that when , at one stage in his summing up he referred to his assumption that Asquith would not serve under either Law or Lloyd George , Asquith intervened to say that he had not gone quite so far as that ; he must consult his friends before giving a final answer . |
| 17 | No-one else had gone quite as far as that , and the self-conscious Thiercelin had tried to look as if Lefevre was nothing to do with him . |
| 18 | The Flower of Chivalry did not go quite so far as that . |
| 19 | The Crofting Reform ( Scotland ) Act of 1976 did not go quite as far as this , but it did give the crofters the incontestable right to purchase their house and garden , and the optional ( though not incontestable ) right to purchase their land for 15 times the annual rent . |
| 20 | ‘ I know , I 'm only a woman but I can make and mend just as well as any man , if not better . ’ |
| 21 | Most of our brewing equipment has not aged nearly as well as many of you here tonight and so it is being replaced . |
| 22 | More than 120 authorities do twice as well as that with uncollected rent less than half the level in Bolsover . |
| 23 | The consensus will last only so long as most lawyers accept the convictions that support it . |
| 24 | Bedroom lighting needs to be planned just as carefully as that elsewhere in your home if it 's to provide the right atmosphere and be practical . |
| 25 | I put " as if " in quotation marks because electron spin is not a phenomenon which can be visualised quite as simply as that . |
| 26 | At this point he decided to turn back , for even now it would be eleven before he was home and it was seldom he stayed out as late as that . |