Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv] as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quotations in verse should be indented , like long quotations , and laid out as closely as possible to the original . |
| 2 | Some Labour politicians , including Reg Prentice as a junior minister , wished them to be ‘ required ’ to do this ; Crosland preferred that they should be ‘ requested ’ , determined that empty threats should not be issued or implied and to go forward as fast as he could by agreement and persuasion . |
| 3 | I finished my drink , quickly said goodbye to the other actors and got out as fast as I could , not wanting to register their smirks and curiosity . |
| 4 | The question facing women 's studies today is the extent to which she has , in the last decade , matured into the dutiful daughter of the white patriarchal university — a daughter who threw tantrums and played the tomboy when she was younger , but who has now learned to wear a dress and speak and act almost as nicely as Daddy wants her to . |
| 5 | Then I drew the obvious conclusion and drove off as quickly as possible . ’ |
| 6 | And this was just one of a number of sites , known only to Halim and his team , where the early Chinese mariners had buried their dead together , as was their custom , with porcelain some of which had been fired in the imperial kilns of the Sung and Ming dynasties and dated back as far as the eleventh century . |
| 7 | Disk-resident MIBs will be able to be loaded and activated dynamically as well as unloaded and de-activated in order to free memory . |
| 8 | Disk-resident MIBs will be able to be loaded and activated dynamically as well as unloaded and de-activated in order to free memory . |
| 9 | Close your eyes , inhale and bend back as far as you can ( without any discomfort ) thrusting your arms back . |
| 10 | Surely , if the train were in a station when the emergency occurred , you would get out and run away as fast as possible . |
| 11 | Whales do n't fly , but they do swim , and swim about as efficiently as swallows fly . |
| 12 | This distaste for the subject of money should also guide his behaviour if another gentleman was impudent enough to enquire about his income : ‘ [ In such a situation the mirza ] should try to get the topic changed ; if not he should leave the house to its owner and run away as fast as his feet can carry him . |
| 13 | I am terrified and run home as fast as I can . |
| 14 | As for his arm , she decided , it could just fester and drop off as far as she was concerned . |
| 15 | We must get in , do the job and get out as quickly as POSSIBLE — leaving the place as the public have a right to find it . |
| 16 | I left the broch and walked uphill as far as I could without disturbing the bird colony , then made my way towards the southern end of the island , where the land sloped gradually down to the sea in long , flat terraces of rock . |
| 17 | The only way to conquer a fear is to face it , and to do so as frequently as possible . |
| 18 | It is the responsibility of the counsellor to move into the difficult area of feelings , and to do so as gently as possible . |
| 19 | When I took a rolled-up sample of legal tender , printed by the Royal Mint , applied one end to my right nostril , placed a restraining finger upon my left nostril , rested the other end of the said note upon a mirror or any other shiny reflective surface , upon which was displayed a slender tranche or ‘ line ’ of exotic Colombian snuff , and breathed in as deeply as my lungs would allow , I was merely relaxing in a manner by no means untypical amongst overworked show-business operatives . |
| 20 | Gather up the trimmings and roll out as thinly as possible . |
| 21 | They grow and feed just as well as carp fed on a much higher protein diet , only it does not cost as much . |
| 22 | The figure leapt for the top of the wall and was almost over when Martin jumped , grabbed its leg and pulled down as hard as he could . |
| 23 | The Ness is shallow and peaceful , and the murmur of its flowing falls plaintively on the ear , in sympathy with the song of the birds , and the summer tintings of the trees , and the musings of those who seem to love each turning in the paths ; while the waters of the rapids of Niagara make the onlooker hold back his breath , and keep back as far as possible from the wild leaping of the swift-rushing waters . |
| 24 | So Alice refused all offers of alcohol from the solicitous hostess in First Class , rejected the proffered magazines , donned her eyepads , and lay back as far as possible in what the airline liked to call her armchair . |
| 25 | These divisions run very deep and go back as far as the available documents provide information on such matters . |
| 26 | The sheep will have to be gathered up and brought down as soon as possible ! ’ |
| 27 | She then busied herself around the room , the implication quite clear : I was to drink up and get out as quickly as I could . |
| 28 | ‘ I know , I 'm only a woman but I can make and mend just as well as any man , if not better . ’ |
| 29 | The -300bp construct is deleted to a BamHI site which is -300bp from the cap site and extends downstream as far as the RI site in the last exon ( IV ) . |
| 30 | When the old man saw me , he shouted loudly and ran away as fast as he could . |