Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] [adv] as [pron] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I 'm Quechua , but I do n't want to work as hard as they must do . |
| 2 | Sometimes I tried to go as fast as I could , but it was easy to let the sail out and slow down if I felt I was getting out of control . |
| 3 | ‘ With all our promotional campaigns , we want to work as closely as we can with booksellers . |
| 4 | Karl stopped laughing as suddenly as he had begun , his face grave and concerned and kindly . |
| 5 | He stopped trembling as quickly as he had begun a moment before and seemed to withdraw down the dark passage to the daydream he was locked in when they first arrived . |
| 6 | They panic when driven out into the open and their first thought is to find cover as quickly as they can . |
| 7 | We want to grow as fast as we can . ’ |
| 8 | Thank you Mr Mayor I just wanted t to come in with two fairly quick points er as to why I will not be able to support this amendment , but the first is that the leader of the council has indicated that the efficiency savings erm has got as far as it can go and that , you know , we have been trimming at the margins and there is no more margin left and that leads you to believe that perhaps one should be looking at somewhat more er root and branch type of pruning in the spending that that the labour group want to actually erm deal with , er and the second point I would like to make , and er I thank councillor for giving us a a a a new word tonight obfuscation because that describes exactly what I think the labour group are trying to do by bringing this figure down it removes the embarrassment they would have from having to add on a substantial sum of money f due to the failure to collect the cou er the community charge in previous years and I think that they are trying by by this amendment with some very quick foot work to try and delude the people of this city . |
| 9 | As the years unfold , the penny will drop in the general council of the CBI , as much as on the commuter trains from Basildon , that the whole market-based experiment has gone as far as it can — and the new need is for a government and policies that actively manage the instability and short-termism of the British economy . |
| 10 | In reaching 24 processor configurations , Pyramid says it has gone as far as it can with the R3000 . |
| 11 | These may stem from hormonal changes in the woman , from social pressures , from changes in marital or parental role , from career considerations ( especially in the man , who may realise that , at this stage of life , he has gone as far as he is likely to go ) and/or from other causes . |
| 12 | Constance came hurrying as fast as she could with her stick . |
| 13 | Erm it would be wrong to say Wales is a weak region on the basis of this , it 's just not , does n't appear , or does n't expect to grow as strongly as it was growing . |
| 14 | She seemed to vanish as quickly as she had appeared , leaving Ianthe to be pushed forward into the train , where she stood in a daze until she found herself sitting down in a seat offered to her by a small boy . |
| 15 | He might have the advantage of size and strength , but thanks to the martial arts classes she 'd taken as regularly as she could over the past few years , she had a few tricks of her own up her sleeve . |
| 16 | My own swollen hand seemed to hurt even more as I watched him . |
| 17 | They tend to subside as quickly as they arise . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm going to try as hard as I can . |
| 19 | Whoever the caddie , the money will have been well earned ; it is a safe bet that he or she will have had to struggle as hard as his or her player to get to the top of the tree — while carrying forty-five pounds of dead-weight on his back for four miles and four hours as well ! |
| 20 | Charles turned to walk as quickly as he could down the steps and away without actually running , when a young woman appeared beside the butler . |
| 21 | " I 'd like to sleep as much as anyone , but if we all sleep and something comes , who 's going to spot it ? " |
| 22 | There was no way I was ever going to ride as well as he did and he surely knew it . |
| 23 | However , there are fears that the chancellor will not dare go as far as his critics wish and instead stick to a one per cent cut . |
| 24 | Anyway , the point is this that I am going to say as far as I 'm concerned I 'm gon na put all my maximum ability in making sure that this government stands by its obligation which it gave me when I wrote to the Prime Minister because I was very very concerned that I did not want to see the old people and pensioners who was having difficulty in making ends meet , suffer further and therefore I am with you when it comes to concerning yourself in relation to the O A P's or the pensioners or any one who is suffering because of the s seventeen and o half percent , the maximum is put on . |
| 25 | They 're buying a three bedroom place for the next they 're just just going to move there just as they 're going to have twins . |
| 26 | It would be hard to justify living as well as you do while paying only a pittance for the privilege . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Poor Nutmeg was very scared , he began to run as fast as he could . |
| 29 | A protesting Maltote was roused and ordered to ride as fast as he could to the royal camp outside Bedford . |
| 30 | ‘ Just an amateur , ’ he said modestly , evading questioning as adroitly as she . |