Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] as [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could no longer contain my emotion , but going down on my knees I wept as quietly as I could for quite a long while . |
| 2 | After the interview I mentioned as casually as I could that as a result of blocked sinuses I had lost my sense of smell ( with the exceptions of petrol , laundry and excrement ) for years , and could he think of any way of restoring it ? |
| 3 | That , she thought , was as good an idea as any , and on silent feet she went as swiftly as she had come back to her kitchen . |
| 4 | It has shown its commitment to ensure that all children with special needs , including dyslexics , receive the help they need as early as possible . ’ |
| 5 | Visits to Exeter he made as rarely as possible . |
| 6 | On this basis you ensure as far as is possible that Decision Height is reached at a point where the field is ahead of you and visual contact established . |
| 7 | In an interview with The Scotsman , he said : ‘ It 's an issue which goes wider than education — to family life and social values , and whether we are prepared to accept the responsibilities we have as well as the rights we enjoy . ’ |
| 8 | Then one evening as she was tidying up the room he said as quietly as if he were taking rifle aim , ‘ There 's no need for you to go turning the whole place upside down . |
| 9 | A building surveyor can offer guidance on any problems you anticipate as far as structure , planning and building regulations , and cost are concerned . |
| 10 | All the while you imagine as hard as you can what he would look like , your dream lover . ’ |
| 11 | My middle daughter , Lal , sweetly and most touchingly offered me one of her kidneys , an offer I declined as decorously as I could . |
| 12 | And this morning we got as far as did n't we ? |
| 13 | In constituencies they fared as badly as their West German counterparts , and nationally even worse , winning overall only 0.4% of the votes . |
| 14 | In the coalfields he read as avidly as ever , including in his reading books about the French revolution by Michelet and others . |
| 15 | To do Haverford justice , he was n't altogether happy about his lack of rapport with his daughter ; at times he came as near as he ever could to feeling guilty about it . |
| 16 | In our first Report we tried as far as possible to avoid the word ‘ grammar ’ , and to explain how important it was for children to use linguistic terminology . |
| 17 | The Ridgery was clay on chalk ; heavy land difficult to work where it sloped gently towards the east : in the winter it lay sodden and cold , in summer it dried as hard as brick and there were cracks in it . |
| 18 | Let me put it to you this way you know as well as I do people who really ought to be doing something else other than teaching . |
| 19 | After capture at Tobruk as a chaplain he listened as well as lectured and poured himself out as father , brother and friend , empathising with the religious difficulties of his fellow prisoners which gnawed away at the rigid Anglo-Catholicism of more sheltered days . |
| 20 | In the evenings I studied as hard as I could , educating myself for Estella . |
| 21 | Probably with braziers we think as far as we know , although there is also a chimney breast there which is a later date . |
| 22 | He recorded the arrangements made with workmen he employed as carefully as he chronicled the minutiae of his social life . |