Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.

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1 By ten I 'd crawled as far as the door .
2 I 'd got as far as the top step on that flight when the phone went again .
3 I had dressed as well as I could that morning , in more or less the same stuff I 'd worn for Grandma Margot 's funeral .
4 But if just once I feel I 've run as hard as I possible could , in good shape , and I 've still only done 27:50 , maybe I 'll be happy to say , ‘ Oh well , Solly , you 've been kidding yourself all along ’ . ’
5 ‘ I feel that I 've gone as far as I can here , ’ Knowles said .
6 ‘ I think I 've gone as far as I can with it , ’ said Tony .
7 ‘ And although I do n't think I 've played as badly as people have said , I think I can get more out of myself , and more out of others around me , if I play in a midfield alongside Gazza . ’
8 or tattoos , or fairground art , I 've got down just as examples
9 I have done what I wanted , or thought I wanted , I have pushed as hard as I could , and this is it .
10 I have responded as fully as possible when the hon. Gentleman has raised the matter , and I have drawn it to the attention of my right hon. Friend the Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food .
11 Also , on many occasions , I have telephoned as late as 7.15pm only to hear ‘ today 's ’ forecast — at a cost of some 50–60p — but with no hint of when it will actually be updated with the outlook for tomorrow .
12 The mood immediately sank back into deep depression , especially in the light of the Soviet summer offensive , which had pushed as far as the Vistula , and , in August , the accelerating advance of the western allies through France .
13 As we watched , the fog , which had crept as far as the house , began to flow round it .
14 Egyptian stone vases reached Crete before the bronze age began ; the Cretan industry , which had started as early as 2500 BC , nevertheless post-dated the arrival of these foreign vases .
15 I return to Summerchild , who has retreated as far as laughter will stretch and found nothing .
16 Anyone who has got as far as saying this , has already thrown the first proposition overboard , because if it is ‘ the responsibility of management to do everything possible to keep prices stable or reduce prices ’ , then we would not need a commission to tell us that managements which raise prices are falling down on their responsibility .
17 Yet , even here , there is a puzzle , a strange , unplaceable something which does n't quite fit with that account of the gradual driving out of the reader and the suggestion of a steady shift towards the rare and the difficult , for I would guess that anyone not put off in advance by suspicion or hearsay , anyone that is who has got as far as dipping into Ulysses , say , will have come hard up against things that are startlingly , even discomfortingly , recognisable .
18 Twice fought over , she has suffered as badly as any country in the world .
19 This country cost her too much ; indeed , she has gone so far as to refuse to discuss the topic .
20 He might have the advantage of size and strength , but thanks to the martial arts classes she 'd taken as regularly as she could over the past few years , she had a few tricks of her own up her sleeve .
21 A few minutes later , when she 'd got as far as wrapping herself in her host 's dressing-gown , Penry Vaughan knocked loudly on the door .
22 It had been a special childhood , full of laughter and fun ; Mark and she had grown up together as friends , as well as brother and sister .
23 Fen had seen her angry before , but never so angry that she had lashed out physically as well as verbally .
24 When Edmund had left her she had wandered as far as the orchard , and had just pushed aside the crooked wicker gate to re-enter the garden when she heard the latch of the heavier postern rattle .
25 He had kissed and fondled her and she had responded as well as she could but they had both been too aware of each others inexperience and uncertainty to achieve fulfilment .
26 She had got as far as pulling out her suitcase , which looked scruffier than ever now that her eyes had accustomed themselves to the comfortable luxury of Luke Hunter 's flat , and laying it open on the bed before something inside her rebelled .
27 When I saw it the other night , tucked inside the cello part of one of the piano trios we play , she had got as far as ‘ State 7 — Moderate Gale : Intervals of laughter .
28 She had glanced up briefly as Kerry , one of her assistants , approached her .
29 She had driven as far as she could and now stopped the car .
30 The Workshop in Communicative Grammar bore the stamp of its energetic organizer , , who had gone so far as to postpone a Fulbright Fellowship to study with in Pennsylvania in order to bring the planned Workshop to fruition .
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