Example sentences of "[vb infin] as [adv] as [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dana did not shave as often as I did . |
| 2 | She 's just come out of Saint Mary 's did n't do as well as she thought , or everybody else hoped she would do in her A levels , so is now retaking one . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It does not necessarily work as quickly as it did in Sylvia 's case — but it always succeeds , provided the patient does his or her homework regularly and conscientiously . |
| 5 | She 'd never seen anyone move as fast as he did when he put poor old Dan Pearson on his back . |
| 6 | Elinor was sometimes at a loss for the right word , or name , and then became impatient with herself ; she was often frustrated because she could n't move as swiftly as she did before . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Otherwise , what we 've built here could disappear as quickly as it came . ’ |
| 9 | The rains may disappear as suddenly as they arrived ; the pond may dry out within a few days , and so the whole cycle of breeding activity must be completed in the shortest possible time . |
| 10 | ‘ Suddenly we had a situation where money for the studio was no object : we could take as long as we liked . |
| 11 | It 's gon na take as long as I thought cos I have to format it and install it . |
| 12 | Will the outswinger still swing as late as it did last summer ? ’ |
| 13 | And how many times , on re-entering occupied space , did the phenomena depart as suddenly as they came ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) ’ . |
| 16 | She could go as often as she wanted to the clinic , but they wo n't come out to her |
| 17 | erm If United can play as well as they did this afternoon and Oldham perform as well as we know they can , we 're in for a really tremendous game of football . |
| 18 | If Jason Peake can regularly play as well as he did on his debut on loan from Filbert Street on Saturday , Pool need to sign him quickly . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | When she said that she only wanted £10 for looking after little Doris , and that her mother could come and visit as often as she liked , a deal was struck and a tearful Evalina waved goodbye to Mrs Stanfield and her small daughter . |
| 21 | No one imagined that Mr Bush would intervene as abruptly as he did , or that Mr Kaifu would go off to Palm Springs without so much as a by-your-leave to the party barons . |