Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] [adv] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elisabeth was torn between retreating at once , following the path back the way she had come , or continuing as far as the colonnade to look through the windows into the music room . |
| 2 | Several people mentioned that getting as far as the interview was the main problem . |
| 3 | Integrity , combined with wariness , pride , and the kind of stoic endurance that accompanied an understanding of suffering , a loss of innocence that went as deep as the soul . |
| 4 | Back at the head of Varanger Fiord , we turned off north on what we hoped was the road to Fuglafjell and got as far as the fishing village of Syltefiord . |
| 5 | I was going towards the North Stand and got as far as the All-Blacks ' 10-yard line . |
| 6 | To begin with she heard nothing to justify her fright , and got as far as the staircase between floors before the lift began to hum . |
| 7 | The streets curved and twisted as pleasantly as the river , but were shaded by fine lime trees , now breaking into delicate leaf , instead of the willows , soon to shimmer summer through , above the trout-ringed reaches of the River Pleshey . |
| 8 | You 're never very far from urban centres but the walk sidesteps and swerves as cleverly as the best Welsh fly-halves to follow a largely rural route . |
| 9 | She jumped and came up short as the rope went taut . |
| 10 | To stand on this dusky wharf , bruised by a drum of creosote , and acting not even as the convent chaplain , but as some kind of school attendance officer ! |
| 11 | And George Felse dived forward at the jerking ankles under the archway , felt his way forward towards the knees , and hauled strongly backwards as the roof sagged slowly and ponderously inwards on top of Gus Hambro . |
| 12 | Lydia opened the door to let out the cigarette smoke and walked as far as the stream , wondering why the blazes Betty was behaving in so singular a fashion . |
| 13 | He heard a click and stepped back quickly as the bolt thudded into the wall of the derelict house behind him . |
| 14 | He could n't tell when the singing came to an end , or the Archbishop 's voice was first raised , addressing the city ; offering it God 's peace and succour so long as the Feast of Christ lasted . |
| 15 | I locked the shed again and jogged as far as the bridge while I got my breath back . |
| 16 | Even from the beginning she had lain naked and adoring under the moon and Fenna could come and go as easily as the clouds did . |
| 17 | Adjustment can now come about automatically via the exchange rate , although the success of this mechanism depends upon the elasticity of demand for imports and exports as far as the current account is concerned , and on the stability of capital flows for an overall balance of payments . |
| 18 | Not that Kimon was the only Athenian statesman who sought to recall Marathon specifically : the 192 horsemen of the Parthenon frieze , begun after Kimon 's death and completed as late as the 430s , may depict the Marathon dead , who numbered just 192 , and who were given heroic honours . |
| 19 | ‘ It leaves me high and dry as far as the debt 's concerned . |
| 20 | And perhaps it was just as well because there , on the seat of the rag cart and sitting as patiently as the pony was standing , was Ben . |
| 21 | So he divided the people , half to scour the right bank of the river down the forested links and narrows as far as the meadows above Logierait and force a signature from every proprietor , half to come with him to the north side ; they would all meet at Haugh of Ballechin after the sun had set and plan for tomorrow . |
| 22 | The solution would involve mediation by the signatories of the protocol , a proposal hitherto rejected by Ecuador [ see p. 38526 ] , whose territorial claim in the oil-rich area dated back to colonial times and extended as far as the Peruvian town of Iquitos . |
| 23 | Yet Iago suddenly wheeled his pony again , and made for the highest point of the ridge , where he could look back over the valley , and see as far as the scattered outer copses and the rim of the forest . |
| 24 | This fertile region , hollowed out and enriched so far as the soil is concerned by glaciation , was once known as the Pays tea Quatre Vallées , and Arreau was its capital , being another of the small centres which flourished in the years when the trans-Pyrenean trade with Spain was at its height . |
| 25 | She got back in the bed wet through , and sat up brazenly as the young girl brought the tray in . |
| 26 | Losing was one thing but to lose as spinelessly as the Welsh XV did to Bridgend on Saturday was to add insult to severely injured pride . |