Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv prt] as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says that when he got into the room the double bed was alight , he picked up the babies and got them out as quickly as he could . |
| 2 | We fixed it up as well as we could — which was n't well but it did give us both somewhere to live away from our parents , a first real taste of independence . |
| 3 | She slammed it down as hard as she could on her opponent 's head . |
| 4 | She was furious because I would n't do what she wanted and paid me back as spitefully as she knew how . |
| 5 | I do n't know what view of these events my uncles took as we woke them early and followed them around as faithfully as any spaniel — maybe that was why they often nipped off to the pub in the evenings . |
| 6 | I followed her down as far as Wilshire Boulevard . |
| 7 | There is nothing in these two pieces that Eckard could not have written , but the sketchiness and even abruptness of their construction , the unenterprising harmony , and the lack of textural variety suggest that , if he did compose them , he dashed them off as fast as he could write for a pupil of little talent and not much discrimination . |
| 8 | The cloudburst switched itself off as abruptly as it had started , and the moon , peering momentarily out from an ink-black cloudscape , showed a coastal desert of pure white sand backed by low hills of chemical-green and violent reds , cactus everywhere and trucks parked on the dirt verge , most of them painted in livid crimson on white — Optimista , Primero de Mayo , La Virgen . |
| 9 | I confess that I ladled it out as liberally as anybody . |
| 10 | Grimma caught him and laid him down as gently as she could . |
| 11 | Fred I am worried with all that money you wo n't lose your head , there are a lot of clever dishonest people ( she means women , he said ) about these days , I brought you up as well as I could and if you do wrong it 's the same as if I did . |
| 12 | Well erm you kept it out as long as possible but the weather spoilt it and the more you turned it , the bla blacker it came . |
| 13 | As for his own talk — that , once begun , had , as usual , spun itself out as thoughtlessly as the wind : he believed it and quite often it was true or partly true — and if others believed it — a bargain had been struck . |
| 14 | And in any case they wanted them back as soon as possible , and there would be the interest to pay . |
| 15 | He looked carefully for antagonisms and smoothed them out as unobtrusively as possible . |
| 16 | Like someone pulling a blanket over his head and defying nature to do its worst , he sank and pushed himself down as far as he could go . |
| 17 | When Muhammad Behbehanian , who was still in Morocco writing to all the Shah 's bankers , told him that he had heard Hassan wanted him out as quickly as possible to understand what had happened and why . |
| 18 | And the buzzard , who had been waiting hidden in the branches of- an oak tree , swooped down , picked her up as carefully as if she were made of rose petals , and carried her back to the forest . |
| 19 | Phoned Moira and told her I wanted it out as soon as possible ; if she would n't have it I would find someone who would . |
| 20 | He slipped the matchbox under the netting and pushed it back as far as it would go . |