Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could no longer contain my emotion , but going down on my knees I wept as quietly as I could for quite a long while . |
| 2 | ‘ The decision was to give them a lot of freedom , letting them take the pictures they liked so long as their interpretations were true to the general concept . |
| 3 | Still in their independent reveries they walk closely together as they near the end of the park . |
| 4 | That , she thought , was as good an idea as any , and on silent feet she went as swiftly as she had come back to her kitchen . |
| 5 | In an interview with The Scotsman , he said : ‘ It 's an issue which goes wider than education — to family life and social values , and whether we are prepared to accept the responsibilities we have as well as the rights we enjoy . ’ |
| 6 | And where Carole lives out in Earlswood , down the lanes she lives round there as well . |
| 7 | A building surveyor can offer guidance on any problems you anticipate as far as structure , planning and building regulations , and cost are concerned . |
| 8 | In constituencies they fared as badly as their West German counterparts , and nationally even worse , winning overall only 0.4% of the votes . |
| 9 | In the coalfields he read as avidly as ever , including in his reading books about the French revolution by Michelet and others . |
| 10 | To do Haverford justice , he was n't altogether happy about his lack of rapport with his daughter ; at times he came as near as he ever could to feeling guilty about it . |
| 11 | In the evenings I studied as hard as I could , educating myself for Estella . |
| 12 | Probably with braziers we think as far as we know , although there is also a chimney breast there which is a later date . |
| 13 | He recorded the arrangements made with workmen he employed as carefully as he chronicled the minutiae of his social life . |