Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pron] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is as yet far from complete , with only half a dozen of the country 's forty-plus aerodromes included , but subscribers are promised that the remainder will be issued them as soon as possible . |
| 2 | Then comes this scrabbling round my belly-button and I 'm walloping myself as hard as I can . |
| 3 | When he reaches back into his jacket pocket for that inevitable pack of cheap cigars I 'm watching him as carefully as a dog with a drunken master , unsure whether he 'll get a kick or a bowl of food . |
| 4 | I 've been putting it out just as he 's walked in , I said I 'm getting good me at this tea . |
| 5 | So the practice has been to regard them rather unofficially as having been satisfied if there is compliance on about … three occasions out of four , or four out of five , or two out of three — practices are variable from one authority to another . |
| 6 | Though I am resigning myself as far as possible to the will of God , you will surely find it quite human and natural that my tears almost prevent me from writing … |
| 7 | In cases of unplanned interruptions , our aim is to notify you as soon as practicable of when your supply will be restored . |
| 8 | And also , he 's buying you as well as he 's buying the product . |
| 9 | The best solution to bristleworms is to remove them as soon as possible when setting up a tank , perhaps by quarantining living rock and corals before introduction into the display tank . |
| 10 | And the key therefore to writing scenes of action is to limit yourself as strictly as you can to describing happenings . |
| 11 | Looking at the fossil animal itself , the first necessity is to reconstruct it as accurately as possible from its fragmentary remains . |
| 12 | The jeep was bouncing them about mercilessly as the Brigadier tried to get back to the village in time for the Captain and the Substitute to go back to Florence and eat . |
| 13 | His eyes , blue-green , were set widely apart on a face which was defining itself rapidly now as unforgettable . |
| 14 | My task was to record it as objectively as possible and leave the reader to judge , yet not to provide some indication of the effect it had on me would be to paint a very incomplete picture . |
| 15 | She said I was cutting her out just as I 'd cut out other people in my life . |
| 16 | Some time later , my headache had receded , my costume was discarded and my bunk was clasping me as tenderly as a mother 's arms . |
| 17 | Danquah 's evidence was somewhat defensive , even apologetic : Nkrumah felt that their intention was to distance themselves as far as possible from his pronouncements and actions . |
| 18 | Eventually an equilibrium was reached , and although the Troll flesh was still there Grom was digesting it as fast as it was regrowing . |
| 19 | She was watching him so intently as he bit into it that he began to wonder if Smallfry was right to fear she would poison him at the slightest opportunity . |
| 20 | It was n't easy to make out his expression , but she was watching him as carefully as she could . |
| 21 | The easiest and most commonly used method was to ignore them as far as possible . |