Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [adv] as [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | For several months the Hong Kong Sevens waited , hoping that the country 's two rugby bodies would unite as quickly as they had in some other sports — most notably cricket . |
| 2 | He 'd run away repeatedly as he 'd got older , never with anywhere to go but just anxious to be free of the confining walls and restrictive atmosphere . |
| 3 | But to be told that he could not make it was to be told that this gift could disappear as unpredictably as it had arrived . |
| 4 | She would not let herself be diverted ; she would go on exactly as she had planned . |
| 5 | I think it still is the way forward and I do n't think it was so much that things went wrong as that they did n't go as well as we had hoped for the women elections to the shadow cabinet . |
| 6 | What started out as an objective assessment like ‘ That lesson did n't go as well as I had expected ’ gets recast as ‘ I made a mistake ’ which leads to ‘ I 'm a poor teacher ’ and even ‘ I 'm a failure ( as a person ) ’ . |
| 7 | He thought for a moment that it might be some kind of game , that their running would cease as suddenly as it had begun , that they 'd stand like statues on the sand , waiting for him to catch up with them . |
| 8 | Sadly , I can not share your optimistic conclusion , which implies we will always muddle through together as we have done so often in the past . |
| 9 | Jack would n't shoot so long as he 'd got hold of him . |
| 10 | Yet the question has to be asked : how much is this really an artificial crisis which will subside as quickly as it has arisen ? |