Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I return to Summerchild , who has retreated as far as laughter will stretch and found nothing . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Twice fought over , she has suffered as badly as any country in the world . |
| 5 | This country cost her too much ; indeed , she has gone so far as to refuse to discuss the topic . |
| 6 | These may stem from hormonal changes in the woman , from social pressures , from changes in marital or parental role , from career considerations ( especially in the man , who may realise that , at this stage of life , he has gone as far as he is likely to go ) and/or from other causes . |
| 7 | Unable to find work after leaving the army , which he joined at 16 , he has travelled as far as Holland in search of a job — but to no avail . |
| 8 | In reaching 24 processor configurations , Pyramid says it has gone as far as it can with the R3000 . |
| 9 | Harvest usually takes place in mid-October , although in extreme cases it has commenced as early as August and as late as November . |
| 10 | Well it is it 's it 's planned pretty well as you know we we always take the summer off we never work during the summer because we do our recording and we make our video and then we 're ready for the road and the video 's released and there 's promotion put into it so er if we go to Australia which we 'll go on our next May and June you know it 's a good time out there for selling product as well so we will have an album released before we get out there and and everything will be planned out . |
| 11 | How how did people feel about , because well if you read read Alan Alan book , then he 's criticized very strongly as being too militant , and r well really Cri preferred to him . |
| 12 | But she knew that in the last resort if he did I would do it , but he 's , he 's paid off now as soon as he 'd paid off he went on the dole again |