Example sentences of "[adv] and [adv] [adv] as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They live together and as far as he is concerned , he will treat her daughter as his own . |
| 2 | We have to work as quickly and as safely as we possibly can and we ca n't afford to spend five minutes er searching a house , let alone a flat . |
| 3 | I got up and dressed quickly and as quietly as I could , but Colin was awake and he mumbled a ‘ good luck ’ as I headed for the door . |
| 4 | At the same time , there was a rapidly expanding population , so house-builders constructed many small houses as cheaply and as quickly as they could ( without proper foundations ) . |
| 5 | My thought processes were still numb , but I got feebly into action , moving more and more strongly as I sought out wood for a fresh fire . |
| 6 | The connection between girls suffering from eating disorders and violently hating their own bodies , and sexual violence in society , struck me more and more powerfully as I listened to girls talking about periods , body shape and size , and how they feel about their bodies . |
| 7 | We are all familiar with the fact that the days of our childhood seemed to stretch out , passing more and more quickly as we grew . |
| 8 | Next day , he was home and as far as he was concerned it had never happened . |
| 9 | The heart of the matter is the provision of a physical and social environment through which the members of society may gradually withdraw from it as securely and as worthily as they enter it through the environment of home and education . |
| 10 | Madonna is saying , ‘ Do n't you wish you had as much sex as often and as uninhibitedly as me ? ’ to the poor old lights-out , pyjamas-on proletariat . |
| 11 | Employers complained of such traits as often and as vehemently as they complained of " riotous and unlawful combination " . |
| 12 | I trained as often and as hard as I could , as hard as anybody on the staff — and that includes my old pal Bryan Robson , who was notorious for his unflagging effort — but the pain was excruciating . |
| 13 | My right hon. Friend can not write off the WEU as simply and as simplistically as he did . |
| 14 | I had a record company screaming for final mixes , not even sure that they wanted this album because ‘ Space Oddity ’ did n't do too well and as far as they were concerned this was going to be the last they had to do with David Bowie , and I was n't delivering the goods . |
| 15 | As part of the whole , they are expected to enable all who are present to make their offering to God as fully and as well as they can , in addition to making their own contribution for him . |
| 16 | When Astrid asked her daughter a question , Miranda would rush to reply , as fully and as dazzlingly as she could : her mother liked to be amused and was easily distracted by something else . |
| 17 | He explained : ‘ We are dealing direct with merchants over there and as far as we are aware they are very keen to import fish , such as small whiting , which they ca n't get from their own fishermen . |