Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I fought back as hard as I could . |
| 2 | I got back as quickly as I could . |
| 3 | I came back as fast as I could . " |
| 4 | Since this is a controversial subject , on which the weight of scholarly opinion probably still supports Böhmer 's thesis that the documents already existed in their contaminated form in 1072 , and were used by Lanfranc in this form , it will perhaps help to clarify a complicated issue if I set out as bluntly as possible the reasons which seem to me to point decisively to 1120 as the date at which the forged additions were inserted into the texts . |
| 5 | Tony and I get up as quickly as we can , brushing the snow free from clothes before putting them on so that it will not melt with the heat from our bodies . |
| 6 | I 'll be honest , Benjamin and I scuttled out as quickly as two of the cardinal 's bloody spiders . |
| 7 | I hurried over as quickly as I could . ’ |
| 8 | You got out as quickly as you could the next morning otherwise they could get into your skin . |
| 9 | ‘ You attacked me , ’ she came back as coolly as she could . |
| 10 | Then , having quickly brushed her hair , she rushed back downstairs just as Madame was throwing her finished cigarette in the fire . |
| 11 | How has a Montpellier fishwife so mastered the art of composition that with her basket of fish for the bouillabaisse she is presenting a picture of such splendour that instead of going to look at the famous collection of paintings in the Musée Fabre you drive off as fast as possible to the coast to order a dish cooked with just such fish ? |
| 12 | He was white with rage and she stepped back rather fearfully as he came inside and slammed the door , locking it securely . |
| 13 | She pulled over as far as she could into the bushes at the side of the lane and slowed down while the car , a beaten-up old Ford , passed . |
| 14 | Where then with their pathetic bleatings of contempt , or do n't you go back as far as er . |
| 15 | She lay down carefully so as not to disturb him . |
| 16 | ‘ I am not your lady wife , my lord , ’ she pointed out as coolly as possible . |
| 17 | Erm Amy said could you find out as soon as possible about your church person , erm , because she 's got to get somebody else if they 're no good and er Elsie 's going to find out . |
| 18 | Once we had got our jobs for the morning we set about then eagerly as everything had to be perfect right down to the last detail . |
| 19 | We carried on as best as we could . ’ |
| 20 | They clattered on as far as the door ; under workbenches , into cracks , finding every obscure corner . |
| 21 | They go back as far as George the second 's reign in 1755 . |
| 22 | We see that er there is no possibility our children can have because unless until they move around so freely as the Western children do move , that is the only way they can choose the right sort of person as a , as the companion for family . |
| 23 | She 'd have let him get in as deep as possible and then started the pressure … |
| 24 | They ran off as fast as their legs would carry them . |
| 25 | ‘ I picked up my teeth from the pitch and wanted to play on , but a dental consultant from the crowd advised me to have them put back as soon as possible ’ — JAMES CHANDLER ( Bedford wing ) after the Pilkington Cup home defeat by Harlequins when he was alleged to have been punched by an England flanker . |
| 26 | He got up as quickly as the tight fit of the table in the breakfast nook would allow . |
| 27 | Right , what we need to do is to hit it fairly hard and try to get it damped down as quickly as we possibly can . |
| 28 | I hope sa er , see of course it 's all question of getting it sorted out as quickly as you can . |
| 29 | She knew how Sisyphus must have felt , rolling that stone wearily up the hill , only to see it slide back down again as he made it to the top . |
| 30 | He walked out as far as Scheveningen to draw the fisherwomen there . |