Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alfieri watched out for his clients and tried to help them as far as his job would allow . |
| 2 | I belonged to them in the sense that when I was interested in something I tried to understand it as far as possible and , of course , even tried to make use of it . |
| 3 | When I asked why , she tried to tell me as gently as she could , but I did n't understand — ‘ Your Pop comes into our room at night . ’ |
| 4 | She 'd found herself on the receiving end of a great deal of teasing about her impromptu topless dip in the sea and her valiant rescuer , and she 'd fenced it as calmly as she could . |
| 5 | Matthew seemed to avoid her as studiously as he avoided Sandra ! |
| 6 | He seemed to love her as fiercely as he had once loved Ryan , Shiona thought to herself with a little inner shiver . |
| 7 | Even to get this much he had had to agree to a number of statutes which he construed as so prejudicial that he vowed to repeal them as soon as possible . |
| 8 | But the fact that several critics began to challenge them as early as 1924 demonstrates that the campaign she had initiated in 1923 met with some success . |
| 9 | I started drawing them as well as I could remember . |
| 10 | So far from abandoning our folly , we started pushing it as far as it would go . |
| 11 | It looked enticing and we decided to follow it as far as we could . |
| 12 | I got Bunny out of the pub just before chucking-out time and with a bit of persuasion he agreed to take me as far as Hackney , dropping me off at the end of Stuart Street . |
| 13 | Every hour mattered : I had to see her as soon as possible . |
| 14 | There 'd been neither sight nor sound of James since that fateful day and no doubt he had forgotten her as quickly as he had taken her , but he must be told there was going to be a child . |
| 15 | To ensure that his subjects acquired the habit of carrying out his instructions he had to visit them as often as possible , and although the king 's itinerary was normally publicized in advance — so that merchants and tradesmen , as well as petitioners , could frequent his court without difficulty — it was sometimes useful to turn up without warning . |
| 16 | Just a frail little thing , was n't she , the wind could have picked her up and tossed her away , yet she had demolished him as surely as if she had wielded a pick-axe handle to his belly . |
| 17 | Fate had got him as far as a leading Sheffield estate agents , Blundells . |
| 18 | The absurd thoughts had got her as far as the foot of that horrible stairway , then she had felt the level floor of another passage beneath her feet . |
| 19 | As he watched , I started to drag away the old door that had served us so well as foot-stopper . |
| 20 | They had monitored him as far as Poverty Row , then the Dream had upside-downed . |
| 21 | I could sense Lili turning her head to look at me , but the urge to talk , to confess , had left me as suddenly as it had come . |
| 22 | It was as if they had left it as late as possible to take maximum advantage of credit . |
| 23 | He had groomed himself as best as he could for the interview . |
| 24 | Her mother had taken her downstairs so as not to disturb the rest of the family . |
| 25 | In the north , the German advance from East Prussia had taken them as far as Windau , near the Gulf of Riga . |
| 26 | Yet even though Daniel had spread himself as far as he could , including making himself a primitive chapel out of an east-facing bedroom , there was still a good deal of vicarage left over . |
| 27 | Those who preached the crusade dwelt on the significance of Jerusalem and on the death of Jesus , and so roused men to fervour against the Jews who had killed him as well as against the Muslims who had captured his tomb ; and apocalyptic notions of the time associated the conversion or elimination of the Jews with the liberation of Jerusalem , as a necessary prelude to the end of the world . |
| 28 | I kept telling myself that I had killed her — had killed her as surely as if my own hands had sent her plunging down into the muddy waters of the Thames . |
| 29 | The air carrier had returned him as quickly as possible . |
| 30 | Mozart , knowing that his father would be devastated by the news , sought to prepare him as gently as possible for it by writing to him that she was gravely ill and at the same time writing to their close friend , Bullinger , telling him the whole story , in the hope that Bullinger could support and comfort his father and sister when he finally broke the news to them , which he was intending to do in a second letter to his father . |