Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb pp] as [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 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | REBEL sea captain Jack Lammiman set sail from Whitby on his greatest journey yet to America but only got as far as Scarborough . |
5 | 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 . |