Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] as [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were walking just as fast as the others — yet , for some reason , they hardly seemed to get any closer to the professor ! |
| 2 | The curtains were drawn back as far as they would go , and whenever she looked up the green-brown panorama confronted her and the pale bowl of sky . |
| 3 | In Harehills I belonged to the upper crust of the lower middle classes who were getting out as fast as they could . |
| 4 | Of all the Arab states touched by Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait , few were affected quite as deeply as Jordan . |
| 5 | They were settled there as early as 1899 , and it was from that address that the only one of their children to marry — Henry James — set off on his wedding day , 8 September 1902 . |
| 6 | The traditional approach , essential before the days of high-powered computers , was to proceed algebraically as far as possible and resort to numerical integration only when there was no alternative ; the Blasius profile integration again provides an example . |
| 7 | I made sure the vital information was given out as simply as possible , without any of the accepted police jargon . |
| 8 | A favourite trick was to breathe out as hard as possible , to make the rubber at the side of the face make a noise rather like that of a whoopee cushion . |
| 9 | In the meantime , work was pressed forward as quickly as possible in providing a modern purpose-built bus garage on the site of Thornton Heath depôt and Brigstock Villa . |
| 10 | Not feeling up to arguing the point , she left quietly , knowing everyone else in the Carlisle Flint team was wound up as tight as the drivers , waiting for the green light . |
| 11 | Even when the happy couple had left for their honeymoon , and the floor of the marquee had been cleared for the dance due to follow the reception , she still felt as though she was wound up as tightly as a spring . |
| 12 | New pop had rapidly lost its mischief and settled down into a post-rock , post-teenage maturity , peddling naff fantasies of sophistication to a new generation of moneyed teeny-boppers whose only desire was to grow up as soon as possible . |
| 13 | The European zone , for example , was growing twice as fast as the United States ' zone , and now employed a quarter of a million people . |
| 14 | My method was to look ahead as far as the eye could see , work out the route mentally , then , leaving the wheelbarrow , test the ground in small sections and mark the way with my feet . |
| 15 | They would of course let me know what was going on as soon as possible . |
| 16 | And those beetles of yours — the ones that could n't get home because the sheet was moving almost as fast as they could walk — that must be how it is for light moving through our space . |
| 17 | The most telling one , from the point of view of this study , was found only as recently as 1893 in the Brestimont Collection . |
| 18 | In exchange for most of a shipment of Hawk parts worth $6.5m , no hostages appeared ; and the hopelessness of the enterprise was laid out as clearly as if a hand had drawn it in the heavens . |
| 19 | She thrust the paper across the desk , then was gone almost as fast as she 'd come . |
| 20 | Love , she wanted to shout , only his mirthless smile cut the word off in the throat , and then her breathing was cut off as well as he placed one of her hands on the accelerated pulse beating in his neck . |
| 21 | The offworlder was breathing almost as hard as his mare . |
| 22 | ‘ Underload ’ , associated with a poorer idea of progress , uncertainty about how to deploy time , panic at exams , etc. , was perceived almost as negatively as overload . |
| 23 | From the kick-off , Bordon forced a corner which was cleared only as far as Duffin who volleyed in from 15 yards . |
| 24 | His chair was tilted back as far as it would go . |