Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In Harehills I belonged to the upper crust of the lower middle classes who were getting out as fast as they could . |
| 3 | I made sure the vital information was given out as simply as possible , without any of the accepted police jargon . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They would of course let me know what was going on as soon as possible . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | His chair was tilted back as far as it would go . |