Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guildford has counted almost as fast as Torbay — but not quite . |
| 2 | The work started in northern Scotland and has progressed southwards as far as North Wales . |
| 3 | If Alan heard , he remained silent , probably resolving to get ashore as quickly as possible . |
| 4 | However he just wants to get away as fast as he can . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Look , I just want to get home as soon as possible . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We were going to travel together as far as Paris , I was to go on to Calais . |
| 9 | I not only want to get married but I fully intend to do so as soon as possible , and to you , not to Dana . |
| 10 | When Rebus joined the group I began to tremble nearly as badly as the red-haired foreigner . |
| 11 | Black staff should not have to train twice as hard as their white colleagues . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | I was not conscious of this — it could have lasted twice as long as far as I was concerned . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | For instance , a very good way is to make everything you do take twice as long as it would normally take you . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Now that the rush of anger had abated just as quickly as it had risen she felt cold , icy tremors rippling along her veins . |
| 19 | They had tunnelled down into the plateau , and they had built upwards as far as their materials and construction abilities would allow . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In his grandfather 's time the City had stretched only as far as Ch'ung Ch'ing . |
| 23 | If the secularisation of the working-class had gone ahead as rapidly as Engels wished to believe , one would expect to see some reflection of this in figures showing the growth of Rationalist and Secularist Societies . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | And Oz had worked just as hard as she had , not stopping to gaze down into the dale , but picking and picking until his fingers were stained blue-purple . |
| 26 | You 've worked just as hard as everyone else on this production , even though … ’ |
| 27 | By that time Arthur had started again as near as possible to the place where he had begun . |
| 28 | But he was granted no special treatment and had to toil just as hard as the hired hands . |
| 29 | It had taken twice as long as planned due to the heat and it was decided that a 6.00am start was required on the second day . |
| 30 | We need to go only as far as eqn ( 2.21 ) . |