Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun prp] as [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modernists and moderates were probably as numerous as one another , as Charlie Allen of the CIA reported to Casey as late as November 1986 . |
| 2 | Yet already , with Benjamin the Silversmith , we have noticed a change : he moved around London as often as he did not because life was proving difficult where he was , but because customers or lodgers might be more easily found just round the everlasting corner . |
| 3 | He was condemned to death in his absence ( 469 ) and arrived in Persia as late as 465 , eluding en route an Athenian fleet which was besieging Naxos . |
| 4 | I left the hotel and returned to Geneva as fast as I could . |
| 5 | He and an Iranian doctor flew from Paris as directly as they could . |
| 6 | And then , without caring what the headmaster might think , he ran after Maisie as fast as he could . |
| 7 | Last time round they went to south east Asia , trekked in Nepal as far as the Everest base camp , saw Thailand and China then came back on the Trans-Siberian Railway . |