Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Garrigues , most of us tried to hold out as long as possible , preferring constipation to the risks of having a crap . |
| 2 | With every nerve straining to turn tail and run , she 'd backed away as quietly as possible and once she was out of earshot raced back down to the beach to find the tide had turned . |
| 3 | But — there it was , and I began to go down as quickly as possible but with difficulty , for there was almost a metre between rungs . |
| 4 | When Rebus joined the group I began to tremble nearly as badly as the red-haired foreigner . |
| 5 | Finding the roads almost traffic free , I decided to push on as quickly as possible towards the harsh and romantic west coast . |
| 6 | Now that the rush of anger had abated just as quickly as it had risen she felt cold , icy tremors rippling along her veins . |
| 7 | They had tunnelled down into the plateau , and they had built upwards as far as their materials and construction abilities would allow . |
| 8 | The line in Provençal is from Bertran de Born 's ‘ Planh for the Young English King ’ , which Pound had translated splendidly as early as 1909 . |
| 9 | In his grandfather 's time the City had stretched only as far as Ch'ung Ch'ing . |
| 10 | If the secularisation of the working-class had gone ahead as rapidly as Engels wished to believe , one would expect to see some reflection of this in figures showing the growth of Rationalist and Secularist Societies . |
| 11 | No-one else had gone quite as far as that , and the self-conscious Thiercelin had tried to look as if Lefevre was nothing to do with him . |
| 12 | And Oz had worked just as hard as she had , not stopping to gaze down into the dale , but picking and picking until his fingers were stained blue-purple . |
| 13 | By that time Arthur had started again as near as possible to the place where he had begun . |
| 14 | But he was granted no special treatment and had to toil just as hard as the hired hands . |
| 15 | It had taken twice as long as planned due to the heat and it was decided that a 6.00am start was required on the second day . |
| 16 | But John , he noticed , tended to wander outside as often as he felt tempted to do ; while Astorre had set up house quite candidly in the kitchens . |