Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv prt] [adv] [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd heard Joe Walsh and Pete Townshend used them quite heavy , and I rather liked the tone they got , so I slowly built it up until I got up as high as I could be comfortable with , and I 've been using that gauge ever since . ’ |
| 2 | I ca n't , because I ducked down as low as I could , controlling Armstrong 's wheel with just my left hand , the injured right tucked between my legs . |
| 3 | and I went down as far as er |
| 4 | I went down as far as Frank 's |
| 5 | I grew up pretty much as everybody else grows up and one day seven years ago I found myself saying to myself — I ca n't live where I want to — I ca n't go where I want to — I ca n't do what I want to — I ca n't even day what I want to . |
| 6 | Not that an official proctor was necessarily called upon to take up the case ; often clients received only the less expensive advice of petition-drawers , who drew up as many as ninety per cent of all criminal plaints . |
| 7 | has n't any proper name like this cos these are private houses and estate are council houses but the built at top of was called the Old Plantation and the Old Plantation that 's when the first houses were built then of course when you er find the company first started which er Old Plantation is right opposite erm and when you came along past you then branched off to that 's all fields and you came down as far as and then you branched off to . |
| 8 | She rode along , swaggering like a man , till she came to where the lane turned into the field , and there she called out as bold as brass : now , please the powers I may find a tiger in the field ! |
| 9 | She took in as many as she could . |
| 10 | Grinning conspiratorially , she reached up as high as she could , contorting her small body but not quite jumping . |
| 11 | She felt about as poised as a baby elephant taking his first steps , she thought miserably . |
| 12 | But she stood up as eager as Joan of Arc before the judges at her infamous trial . |
| 13 | Erm we went up as high as er eight hundred forty one erm |
| 14 | It was not I suppose for anything other than the Flow that they came up as far as Orkney . |
| 15 | Oh I I think , think that they differed in as far as they were a tiny little bit more ambitious and wanted a sort of erm a a little bit better life , but everybody even in the terraced houses they were all very respectable people , very respectable people I mean er I |
| 16 | He bought back as many as possible of those that his father had sold , and added a few more ; in 1971 he published a useful short account of the history of the collection , together with a handlist based on the latest critical opinion ; and he designed , and had woven in Spain , a carpet for the gallery , a room seventy-two feet long , with a pattern repeating the intricate stucco-work of the ceiling . |