Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pron] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.

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1 Ellen forgot herself so far as to sit down plump on the bed .
2 Travis knew it as well as she did .
3 Maggie saw him more clearly as he stepped forward .
4 Tabitha liked it well enough as it was , though she remembered better days , not so many years ago , when the jazz bands in the bodegas had been almost loud enough to drown the furious rattle of the old spice prospectors playing mah-jongg .
5 Gravellier made it as far as the door .
6 It was then that Fat Watt regarded them most sullenly as though their nearness was a threat .
7 He stayed out of the way as much as he could , and Sandy mentioned him as infrequently as possible .
8 He walked swiftly beside the trolley as they wheeled it towards the Theatre lifts , and Kath told him as rapidly as she could what they had established .
9 Father Kleinsorge told them as cheerfully as he could , ‘ There 's a doctor at the entrance to the park .
10 Albrecht Dürer designed them as early as 1500 or before .
11 Lorton raised himself as far as he could .
12 ‘ The problem with casting myself as the male version of Calypso is that I doubt if Ulysses trusted her as far as he could throw her . ’
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