Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun] as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can count on the fingers of one hand all the journalists I have met who are committed to telling the truth about my field as well as they can discover it , No one could organise censorship so effectively in America , so the distortions in the press must reflect countless more or less independent decisions by editors and reporters which lead to the perpetuation of a misleading and intellectually fallacious understanding of a serious scientific subject . |
| 2 | Mr Clarke said : ‘ The key requirement was that we look after our people as well as we possibly could in these extreme circumstances . |
| 3 | Some clients may feel that no-one can know or therefore write about their company as well as they can . |
| 4 | On Good Friday everyone would be very serious , and go about their business as quietly as possible . |
| 5 | Even as she struggled he was lifting her clear off her feet as easily as though she were made of thistledown . |
| 6 | She realized that she was feeling it too , frozen to the marrow in this bitter East wind which kept whipping her cloak off her shoulders as contemptuously as if it had been made of pocket-handkerchieves instead of tablecloths , her stomach hollow and aching , her head feeling light and aching a little too . |
| 7 | She made herself breathe through her mouth as slowly as she could to hush her own sounds , and inhaled the odours of the earth with her own warm respiration . |
| 8 | They will expect you to watch helplessly as their trap gradually tightens , so do n't wait — break through their line as quickly as possible and run to find help , weapons or a better place to stand and fight . |
| 9 | I deliberately used transparent colours for their clarity as well as for their resemblance to the watercolour . |
| 10 | The roads are the lifeline of Sutherland : they aim for their destinations as directly as the territory permits , their purposeful progression not deflected by offshoots and alternatives . |
| 11 | He put the magazine down and stared into space over my head , smiling wisely as I cleared my throat and flapped the hem of my dressing-gown as unobtrusively as I could . |
| 12 | ‘ That morning was the best of my life as far as Test cricket is concerned . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I shall get you in and out of my palazzo as quickly as possible . ’ |
| 14 | Robert , especially , knows this , for he knows the style of my speech as well as he knows the rhythm of my walk or the vocabulary of my gestures . |
| 15 | I 'm not saying anything because it 's none of my business as far as I 'm concerned |
| 16 | The purpose was to prevent crowding of BES issues at the end of the tax year , but the ceiling limit meant that investors putting up the full 140,000 still made most of their investments as near as they could to 5th April . |
| 17 | All she could do was stumble from the room and get out of their sight as quickly as possible . |
| 18 | They moved towards the left-hand urn , sliding through the crowd of their superiors as smoothly as serpents in the garden . |
| 19 | Elderly people should be invited to eat meals with other members of their family as often as possible , for not only will they enjoy their meals more , but this is a mark of their continuing membership of , and acceptance by , the ‘ tribe ’ . |
| 20 | There is no sure defence against the ant army except to get out of its path as quickly as possible . |
| 21 | Tiny little thing that he is ! ’ ) has faded out of her life as smoothly as he shimmered in and left her a Cartier pen which she seems to have mislaid . |
| 22 | The trick was to get this bitch out of his life as soon as possible . |
| 23 | She was gone now , out of his life as surely as if she were dead . |
| 24 | The question — or was it a demand — shocked him out of his fantasy as crudely as if , unprovoked , she had suddenly slapped his face . |
| 25 | She drove it into the side of his head as hard as she could , hearing a crack as she smashed his temporal bone . |
| 26 | And on one occasion in the gymnasium , I turned round to look at a boy behind me and the master was there and he smacked me with the flat of his hand as hard as he could . |
| 27 | Louis sniffed into it , dabbing the end of his nose as precisely as a dentist drying a cavity . |
| 28 | Then he climbed into the Land Rover beside his two passengers and drove off fast , with the aim of abandoning Jamie to the custody of his aunt as quickly as possible . |
| 29 | She forced herself to meet his gaze , to admit the truth of his accusations as openly as she could . |
| 30 | As the pasta drained , he gave the sauce a quick blast on the ring , and we ate in the middle of his room as enjoyably as in a trattoria . |