Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes I tried to go as fast as I could , but it was easy to let the sail out and slow down if I felt I was getting out of control . |
| 2 | By ten I 'd crawled as far as the door . |
| 3 | I 'd got as far as the top step on that flight when the phone went again . |
| 4 | I decided to walk as far as Bellanoch where a friend would pick me up for that weakening hospitality again - a dear old Sister Brush who shames me with her eighty-year-old energy , integrity and artistic confidence . |
| 5 | Living in San'a , I was initially engrossed in the visual aspects of the architecture , but as I became involved with the Yemeni families , I started to record as accurately as possible all aspects of the traditional San'a culture that was rapidly being swallowed up by Western influence . |
| 6 | It 's taken longer than I thought to get as far as this . |
| 7 | Because of my injury I did get as far as the Spanish Steps and the shops in Rome , but that was the extent of my sightseeing . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | As we watched , the fog , which had crept as far as the house , began to flow round it . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She seemed to vanish as quickly as she had appeared , leaving Ianthe to be pushed forward into the train , where she stood in a daze until she found herself sitting down in a seat offered to her by a small boy . |
| 15 | ‘ A-actually , ’ she managed to stammer as haughtily as she could , ‘ I 'm not playing at all , but you wo n't believe me . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ She did say as quickly as possible — Brian will pick me up at the station . |
| 17 | She had no wish to intrude on Helen 's friendship with her neighbour and , unless Edward had something to tell of interest to veterinary work , she resolved to leave as soon as possible . |
| 18 | Ruth kissed her aunt and then , clasping her hands tightly in her own , she said what she had to say as gently as possible . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She had driven as far as she could and now stopped the car . |
| 24 | He advanced on Nick who had retreated as far as he could . |
| 25 | She continued walking as fast as she could away from Emminster . |
| 26 | ‘ The length of a cricket pitch , and you had to move as fast as Denis Compton , believe you me , to get from one end to the other and pull them levers . ’ |
| 27 | They also saw it as an opportunity to get the packages of care that they sought implemented as early as possible . |
| 28 | By the time he got to his cab , they had gone as far as Holborn Circus . |
| 29 | Passing lamp-lit windows through which they could see sleeping Japanese soldiers and men talking in small groups , they had gone as far as a machine-gun post among the buildings — probably part of the anti-aircraft defences-when a Japanese soldier came up . |
| 30 | Duncan looked at Myeloski ; they had gone as far as they could with the air-traffic controller . |