Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has ventured as far afield as Cathay and Lustria and has aided armies both human and High Elf against the forces of evil . |
| 2 | Guildford has counted almost as fast as Torbay — but not quite . |
| 3 | The work started in northern Scotland and has progressed southwards as far as North Wales . |
| 4 | Has worked as far afield as the University of Otago [ New Zealand ] . |
| 5 | If Alan heard , he remained silent , probably resolving to get ashore as quickly as possible . |
| 6 | However he just wants to get away as fast as he can . |
| 7 | Consulate staff in Riyadh confirm Mr Devine wants to get home as soon as possible so he wo n't appeal , although back in Britain , his MP is pressing the Foreign Office to intervene . |
| 8 | Look , I just want to get home as soon as possible . |
| 9 | With every nerve straining to turn tail and run , she 'd backed away as quietly as possible and once she was out of earshot raced back down to the beach to find the tide had turned . |
| 10 | We were going to travel together as far as Paris , I was to go on to Calais . |
| 11 | I not only want to get married but I fully intend to do so as soon as possible , and to you , not to Dana . |
| 12 | He chose to be a marine engineer reckoning to go as far away as possible from the wastes of Leith and hoping to see the world . |
| 13 | When Rebus joined the group I began to tremble nearly as badly as the red-haired foreigner . |
| 14 | Black staff should not have to train twice as hard as their white colleagues . |
| 15 | On slightly narrower 165/65 section tyres it seems to grip almost as well as the G40 , while its steering seems , if anything , a tad sharper . |
| 16 | Through the winter months , the larger firms gave further assurances that they were willing " to take immediate steps for the gradual reduction of female comps " ; some it seems went even so far as to dismiss women . |
| 17 | Having made a decision on travel as their retirement hobby , they may have to live very modestly so as to finance their trips overseas . |
| 18 | Many workers in Britain have argued in favour of special family courts for divorcing families , and for divorce conciliation services , to help couples who wish to separate do so as amicably as possible ( see for example , Parkinson , 1982 ) . |
| 19 | I was not conscious of this — it could have lasted twice as long as far as I was concerned . |
| 20 | themselves and cut themselves and for , for Allah and whatnot hit and he had two policemen , now if they had , they 're , they 're not allowed to stop you and ask for your identification unless they have policeman with them , but they can arrest you and take you to their police station and they can be quite intimidating and , but they were going round , there was American service in there who have little cards written on it , they said they do n't have to cover their heads they , they 're allowed to do just as well as they please |
| 21 | For instance , a very good way is to make everything you do take twice as long as it would normally take you . |
| 22 | There are increasing demands that the central institutions of the EEC should be reduced to a minimal role , that Member States should be allowed to integrate only so far as they wish , and that it should be possible for a country to remain within a European free-trade zone , but outside a politically united federation — as Norway , Iceland and the other Efta states have done since the establishment of the EEA . |
| 23 | The manufacture of pottery seems to have begun there as early as AD 40 and continued at least until the end of the second century . |
| 24 | Now that the rush of anger had abated just as quickly as it had risen she felt cold , icy tremors rippling along her veins . |
| 25 | When he came he had to pull away quickly so as not to spill a drop of his bodily fluids , like the instructions on the box of condoms said . |
| 26 | They had tunnelled down into the plateau , and they had built upwards as far as their materials and construction abilities would allow . |
| 27 | But no system can wholly protect fools from their own folly or from the knavery of others , and the advantages of trying to do so as fully as possible have to be weighed against the disadvantages of imposing fetters on business conducted honestly and efficiently . |
| 28 | The line in Provençal is from Bertran de Born 's ‘ Planh for the Young English King ’ , which Pound had translated splendidly as early as 1909 . |
| 29 | She had remembered all too well as she spoke to Glyn . |
| 30 | In his grandfather 's time the City had stretched only as far as Ch'ung Ch'ing . |