Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pron] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.

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1 One has the impression that the politicians have half-heartedly picked it up so as not to be left behind in the citizenship fashion-parade , or maybe because they have been prodded into rendering some kind of lip-service by their convinced academics .
2 Hackett says no other issue has ever touched him as deeply as the forced repatriation of the Vietnamese .
3 Nobody 's ever hit me as hard as you did . ’ '
4 The police restricted the parade to the Falls area and the organising committee then called it off so as to avoid compromising the principle of working-class unity .
5 Dealt with me himself , and never told anybody so far as I know . ’
6 Human beings have never touched me so nearly as now when ‘ Nature ’ was so close : I think , too , I never before struck such firm roots into human hearts ’ .
7 He certainly has a vision for the Burmese farmer , and I have never liked him so much as I did last night as we sat talking together under the stars .
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