Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [adv] as they " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there at Stamford , the beautiful town that Celia Fiennes and Defoe had admired so much remained almost exactly as they had seen it : but fossilised , moribund . |
| 2 | Seeing that the independents would be slowly strangled so long as they relied exclusively upon the British circuits , he sought to establish connections to Hollywood . |
| 3 | The skirmishers in the fields had seen them now , and the French had started to withdraw , firing occasionally , but for the most part just running as fast as they could , to obtain cover amidst the village buildings . |
| 4 | There will always be homes , local authority as well as private sector , which do not always behave as well as they should within the rules . |
| 5 | The best laid plans do n't always run as smoothly as they should , so we have tried to identify areas where you might encounter problems . |
| 6 | They were still chatting happily together as they walked inside the inn and Seb called , ‘ Two pints of ale please , landlord . ’ |
| 7 | Winston Churchill was to write : ‘ The conflict sank once more to the bloody but local struggles of two or three divisions repeatedly renewed as fast as they were consumed , and consumed as fast as they were renewed . |
| 8 | He did not deny that errors abounded in the contemporary world , but in a characteristic image said that ‘ they often vanish as swiftly as they arise , like mist before the sun ’ . |
| 9 | The ceremony of innocence was well drowned as far as they were concerned . |
| 10 | Potential inferences which were disconfirmed by a later statement were invariably rejected , and inferences which were neither confirmed nor disconfirmed were falsely identified as often as they had been in the neutral condition . |