Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm taking steps to make sure that I last as long as possible . |
| 2 | His way of praising me was to say that I wrote as naturally as a hen laying eggs , or to remark , after he had destroyed a work with his criticisms , ‘ Everything I have not marked seems to me either good or excellent . |
| 3 | I was so physically tired that I slept as soundly as the corpses outside the window but , unlike them , awoke refreshed and went downstairs to a good breakfast . |
| 4 | They sent me to Cambridge for a couple of terms — that 's where I first realized I must run — I do n't want to blaspheme about one of your famous institutions so I sha n't tell you the name of my college though you 're longing to know — the girls in their bed-sitters , the cocoa-drinking , the tittle-tattle , the atmosphere of heartiness or domesticity in the combination-room — But , my dear , it must be getting late and here I am telling you things that you know as well as I do . ’ |
| 5 | And we 're insisting that you stay here just as long as you like , ’ she told them . |
| 6 | I have forgotten the ins and outs of it : all I remember is that we argued as passionately as if the national survival was at stake . |
| 7 | They treat their women like mules and they fornicate with animals ; indeed in this respect they are so jealous that they go so far as to attach chastity belts to their mares and mules . |
| 8 | The police say that they reacted as fast as they could , but it would have been unsafe to try and stop the party . |
| 9 | Passengers must return to the coach immediately after the game in order that they leave as quickly as possible under police escort . |
| 10 | Recommendations for training visually handicapped pupils to use any sight that they have as effectively as possible should be given , as should training in the use of low vision aids ( magnifiers , etc. ) and special equipment ( closed circuit television ) and in techniques for personal independence and mobility if these are necessary . |
| 11 | The envoys — I do not know by what trickery they were deceived [ here Nithard bursts out into the first person ] — thus increased Lothar 's share of the regnum so that it extended as far as the Charbonnière . " |
| 12 | A layer of heavy-gauge builder 's polythene can then be used to line the excavation as a safety precaution against leaking , but also as a means of retaining moisture within the setting concrete so that it dries as slowly as possible . |
| 13 | Fig. 3 ( b ) Having rammed the soil down firmly to ensure a firm base , a layer of heavy-gauge builder 's polythene is used to line the excavation as a safety precaution against leaking and also to help retain moisture within the setting concrete so that it dries as slowly as possible . |
| 14 | I thought , I did n't think that it takes as long as that . |
| 15 | We do not believe , however , that it goes as far as is necessary in embracing demand management and sustainability . |
| 16 | We do not believe , however , that it goes as far as is necessary in embracing demand management and sustainability . |
| 17 | The fact that it spread as far as the Mycenaean chiefdoms of Greece has sometimes been regarded as surprising . |
| 18 | If the focus is that the school is a good place for all , that it gives as well as takes , then it can gain a great deal of positive publicity . |
| 19 | To the extent that he went further so as to suggest that in no circumstances could the speeches be looked at other than for the purposes of seeing what was said on a particular date , his remarks have to be understood in the context of the issues which arose in that case . |
| 20 | Arthur flew to London and stayed in the police morgue a long time with the body that he knew as closely as his own , thinking of Fred 's splendid good nature , his tough-mindedness , and his humour about the absurd and even the terrible . |
| 21 | I would wager that he goes so far as to say that I broke down in his room , stuttering out the words of my so-called confession between chokes and tears , unable to speak properly . |
| 22 | With these human problems Wordsworth was deeply concerned , though it must be admitted that a superficial reading of his poetry gives the impression that he ran as hard as he could to get away from them . |
| 23 | He saw himself as a buffoon with nasty reserves of observation , a man with goonish spectacles clamped round his ears and perfidy in his guts , and he felt so appalled by his mistrust of an old friend who must surely be taken for an ally that he tried as fast as possible to invent some headway on the project about Berlin . |