Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] as they [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Journalists do not mind being reminded so long as they do not think you are pressing them to write something they can not be sure will be published . |
| 2 | Liverpool slip up again as they prepare for Portsmouth 's shooting and shouting in semi-final replay |
| 3 | But they also dislike those who were born into the same station in life , or further down , and who have n't risen as far as they have . |
| 4 | Our hospitals are so short of cash thanks to the shortsightedness of the Government that it 's a wonder hospitals function as well as they do . |
| 5 | TWO-TIMING men with neatly trimmed pencil moustaches who like to drink as hard as they work are unwittingly modelling themselves upon a style that is at least 4,500 years old , archaeologists have discovered . |
| 6 | Still in their independent reveries they walk closely together as they near the end of the park . |
| 7 | Cocooned in an ivory tower of antique furniture and unfinished jigsaw puzzles , she spends an inordinate amount of time doing simple things like pouring hot water into a teapot ; then she gets on the telephone to her friends and either hangs up just as they reach the receiver or asks them if they would n't mind coming round to tea and picking up some skate from the fishmonger on the way . |
| 8 | With Mark Hughes stepping into the centre-back role , Tranmere defended as well as they have all season , restricting Leicester to a smattering of half chances . |
| 9 | They tend to subside as quickly as they arise . |
| 10 | Unfortunately the jagged beams and stepped curves print out exactly as they appear on screen . |
| 11 | That is why so many ‘ start up ’ schemes finish as early as they do . |
| 12 | The Government have always abided by , and agreed with , the additionality rules as far as they apply to Northern Ireland . |
| 13 | By way of contrast members of a moral or rule-based association share nothing other than their recognition of the authority of those practices ; sharers of a common language , for example , may say what they like so long as they comply with the canons of that language . |
| 14 | ‘ No , we 've decided to leave that for the owners to do up exactly as they wish . |
| 15 | ‘ You got to keep going when you find 'em , ’ he continued , ‘ the little buggers disappear as fast as they come . ’ |
| 16 | The real wonder is not that some who profess to believe fall away after continuing so long but that some last as long as they do with as little as they have . |
| 17 | Only because of Labour proposals and actions have schools managed to deal as well as they have with L M S. Congratulations , I say , go to the Labour Group . |
| 18 | Higher education , as we have seen , has the character of a conversation : the participants may have their own roles , but improvisation breaks out continually as they interact with each other . |
| 19 | Yes so lots of games for United to play at the moment with the postponements , a lot of mid-week games , a lot of games up here at the Manor , but erm as so often happens with United , after a good performance or a little a good run , they never quite do it at home do they , they never quite kill sides off and they draw in games that they 've played very well as they have done today . |
| 20 | If people are to be punished because they deserve it , it is natural to say that they should also be punished as severely as they deserve — that they should get their just deserts . |
| 21 | This assumption appears to be one that children take to heart very early , and rely on extensively as they acquire the meanings of their first language . |
| 22 | Let them hate so long as they fear . |
| 23 | The embankments which he had vainly tried to have reinforced by the zemindars would now be brimming and beginning to overflow … within a few hours the country around the embankments would be flooded and ignorance , stupidity and superstition would have triumphed once more as they have triumphed again and again in human affairs since time began ! |
| 24 | Perhaps the most difficult skill for amateur performers to acquire , though , is the art of speaking to microphone at a constant voice level : most tend to start off strongly as they launch into their speeches , but gradually tail off as they reach the end . |
| 25 | It do n't take as long as they say . ’ |
| 26 | Given full rein to run as far as they want , the plants are living very well and do n't feel in any particular danger , so there is no need for them to waste energy by perpetuating the species and going to the trouble of producing flower and setting seed . |
| 27 | They creak only slightly as they open . |
| 28 | And try as hard as they do , residential staff can never turn a residential establishment into a home . |
| 29 | All children have fads at different times which resolve as quickly as they arrive and so it can be difficult for parents to determine where they should start to draw the line . |
| 30 | But yesterday organiers decided competitors could go as fast as they like . |