Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pron] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Isabel 's shaking legs got her as far as the bench before she collapsed . |
| 2 | His cajoling got him as far as the first landing , but then his legs all but gave out , and thereafter he had to climb using his one good arm to haul him onwards . |
| 3 | Ellen forgot herself so far as to sit down plump on the bed . |
| 4 | His mouth encompassed hers once again as he drove into her , so shockingly abrupt and yet so incredibly sensual . |
| 5 | Travis knew it as well as she did . |
| 6 | Of the twenty States listed in the Table , thirteen are parties to the more recent Hague Convention of 1965 which does not involve the abrogation of the earlier bilateral Conventions but has in practice superseded them so far as the United Kingdom is concerned . |
| 7 | His momentum carried him as far as the launcher and with out-thrust foot he sent it keeling over on to its side . |
| 8 | Maggie saw him more clearly as he stepped forward . |
| 9 | Her father 's work took him at least as far as Shalstone , Buckinghamshire , and her own work took her as far as Edgcote on the Oxfordshire border . |
| 10 | Do tell me all about it ! ’ she begged ; and Breeze enlightened her as far as she could , without referring to the business of the wallet . |
| 11 | Tabitha liked it well enough as it was , though she remembered better days , not so many years ago , when the jazz bands in the bodegas had been almost loud enough to drown the furious rattle of the old spice prospectors playing mah-jongg . |
| 12 | Gravellier made it as far as the door . |
| 13 | It was then that Fat Watt regarded them most sullenly as though their nearness was a threat . |
| 14 | He stayed out of the way as much as he could , and Sandy mentioned him as infrequently as possible . |
| 15 | The bargemen greeted us as formally as if we were visiting them in their own homes , which I suppose we were . |
| 16 | He walked swiftly beside the trolley as they wheeled it towards the Theatre lifts , and Kath told him as rapidly as she could what they had established . |
| 17 | Father Kleinsorge told them as cheerfully as he could , ‘ There 's a doctor at the entrance to the park . |
| 18 | Pursued by the press , both men hid themselves as well as they could . |
| 19 | Moran hardly heard ; all resentment left him as quickly as it had come : McQuaid was here and it was Monaghan Day . |
| 20 | Albrecht Dürer designed them as early as 1500 or before . |
| 21 | Lorton raised himself as far as he could . |
| 22 | The two Longner men who rode one on either side their borrowed minstrel brought him as far as the gatehouse , waiting in silence as he dismounted . |
| 23 | Sam 's mother endured it as patiently as she could . |
| 24 | ‘ The problem with casting myself as the male version of Calypso is that I doubt if Ulysses trusted her as far as he could throw her . ’ |