Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had been friends for long enough , they 'd been to school together for a little while until geography had pushed them apart , then they 'd met up again as older teenagers , both interested in bars and snooker , then in girls . |
| 2 | They also saw it as an opportunity to get the packages of care that they sought implemented as early as possible . |
| 3 | Pressure on the government to intervene had come as early as 1952 with the publication of the Church of England Moral Welfare Council 's Report entitled The Problem of Homosexuality which advocated reform of the law . |
| 4 | Tolkien and Lewis had met as early as 1926 ; in 1939 Charles Williams had moved as a publisher from London to Oxford , and by the last years of the war Christian revival was in active literary life . |
| 5 | By the 1980s the prevailing agenda had shifted yet again as Latin America , Africa and Asia came increasingly to the centre of Catholic concern with liberation theology upon the one side , inculturation upon the other . |
| 6 | John Piper had seen the Diaghilev Ballet in his twenties , had gone as often as possible because ‘ the excitement — the tinge of exultation — in the dancing married to modern music and modern art , worked in my blood and bones . ’ |
| 7 | Egyptian stone vases reached Crete before the bronze age began ; the Cretan industry , which had started as early as 2500 BC , nevertheless post-dated the arrival of these foreign vases . |
| 8 | They had taken as long as seventeen days to examine seventy-five schemes . |
| 9 | In the three weeks since , Theda had tried as far as possible to keep her so . |
| 10 | His aunt had lived as privately as any woman he knew , but even she had visited and tried to help the Blaneys . |
| 11 | Mike was waiting for her in the lobby when she came down , and she was pleased to see that he too had dressed as informally as possible in deference to the humidity . |
| 12 | If during the last twenty years , the costs of automobiles had declined as fast as those for memory capacity in computers , today a Rolls-Royce would cost 50 cents ( van Tulder and Junne , 1988 ) . |