Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.

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1 Often he is afraid that these jobs will not be done , or not done as well as he would do them .
2 Well , if you are typical of your birth sign , you will have already made up your mind and taken your leave around August 6th , when it became apparent that certain associates had sided against you or even gone so far as to hatch some kind of plot .
3 Nothing she said , just a way she has of slightly turning and doing something else and not replying as quickly as she might .
4 Equity says no , and soon goes so far as to lay down a rule that a mortgage is a mere security for money , and something quite different from a genuine transfer of the ownership .
5 He condemned Crilly for his hash , and once went so far as to yank a steaming thick spliff from Crilly 's hand and toss it down the lighthouse cliff .
6 However , before then , in 1901 , the first batch of electrically driven trams were introduced in Chiswick , with a service running from Shepherd 's Bush to Kew Bridge and later extended as far as Hampton Court .
7 Jean raged and argued , and even went so far as to attempt tenderness in her effort to get Ted back to ordinary but working unhappiness .
8 Indeed Holt saw it as a mechanism for controlling the curriculum and even went so far as to suggest that the staff of the APU were concerned to promote desirable curriculum development .
9 Mr. Philipson also submitted that the Bank of England could properly exercise their supervisory powers under the Act without the breaching of customers ' confidences , and even went so far as to submit that the Schedule 3 information could be so furnished by clothing details of customers ' loans or deposits with anonymity .
10 ‘ You could wear this Indian bedspread as a shawl , ’ suggested Robina , and even went so far as pull it off the bed and advance towards Penelope with it .
11 As his armies grew in number and strength Grom ventured further and further west , devastating much of Stirland , Talabecland and even going as far as Hochland in the shadow of the Middle Mountains .
12 The new " cats " are made out of copper and chromium ( as opposed to the normal platinum , rhodium and palladium ) , and reportedly work as effectively as normal ones while avoiding the production of by-products such as nitrous oxide and hydrogen sulphide .
13 From what we know , it seems that the prudent PC user will do well to wait a while and see what other goodies DOS 6 will provide and then upgrade as quickly as possible .
14 He broke off , repeated a passage , and then stopped as abruptly as he had begun .
15 George V tried to dissuade him from this course and indeed went so far as to register a formal protest :
16 In enamel these crystals are very closely and beautifully packed together so as to constitute 99 per cent by volume of the material .
17 I failed to qualify : Ade Mafe just made it , but only got as far as the semi-final .
18 He set off with rucksack and typewriter on a round-the-world trip , but only got as far as New Orleans , where , ever the hopeless romantic , he fell in love with a girl he met on a park bench .
19 REBEL sea captain Jack Lammiman set sail from Whitby on his greatest journey yet to America but only got as far as Scarborough .
20 As usual do not repeat but always reply as quickly as possible .
21 She thought of the dark corner in the kitchen garden where discarded violets grew , pallid , but obstinately scented as strongly as their pampered descendants , grown in glassed-over frames and raised on beds of leaf-mould .
22 Her boyfriend , having disappeared during her pregnancy , returned and acted like a concerned father for a few months after the baby was born , even coming to live in Joanne 's house , but then left as suddenly as he had come , and all the family feel very bitter about this .
23 Experience seems to evolve from youth in a way not measured by the calendar : more like a river than a canal — which is what we knew but never saw so clearly as in these photographs .
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