Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] [adv] as they " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm Quechua , but I do n't want to work as hard as they must do . |
| 2 | They panic when driven out into the open and their first thought is to find cover as quickly as they can . |
| 3 | They tend to subside as quickly as they arise . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 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 | Managers in their late forties begin to see that they are no longer the up-and-coming stars — indeed they may have come as far as they are going to go . |
| 7 | They should have done much better as they dominated for long spells , but failed miserably in the art of scoring . |
| 8 | 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 ! |
| 9 | After this phase of the experiment was over , subjects were allowed to sleep as much as they wished , but continued to keep sleep diaries for a year . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | By the beginning of this century , however , the towers had gone as far as they could go . |
| 12 | I put it to Andy that it must have been a blow when they split in 1988 , but he , ever the voice of reason , says , ‘ There was no point in trying to keep them together , it had gone as far as they wanted it to go and they wanted to do something different . |
| 13 | Duncan looked at Myeloski ; they had gone as far as they could with the air-traffic controller . |
| 14 | The British opinion , for what it was worth , was that by no stretch of the imagination was Bao Dai 's régime in de facto control ( they also warned the Americans that Schuman would claim that the French had gone as far as they could in Vietnam without creating trouble in French North Africa ) . |
| 15 | Furthermore , some branches of physical geography had proceeded as far as they could without an enhanced knowledge of processes . |
| 16 | With the October 1987 stockmarket crash and , now , a British recession , these revenues have vanished as capriciously as they arrived . |
| 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 | Over the millennia , cultures have changed very substantially as they have learned to cope with environmental vicissitudes . |