Example sentences of "[vb past] as [adv] as [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the tradition of ‘ arrangiarsi ’ , of having a network of ‘ contacts ’ ( ‘ He who has more saints gets to Paradise , ’ they say in Naples ) and of having rock-like families to protect you if you did n't make out , grew as naturally as did the Mafia and the Camorra as systems of rough justice and violent ‘ government ’ . |
| 2 | The Greek governing party , PASOK , went as far as to create a ‘ Green Guard ’ around the Premier Papandreou . |
| 3 | One Columbia University student went as far as writing a paper on the novel and its author and was awarded a respectable grade . |
| 4 | At one point he even went as far as to tell a group of American diplomats that he expected the United States to take over the " primary role " which the British had hitherto held in the Middle East . |
| 5 | One even went as far as giving a story to a newspaper that the couple would share the same bed in Korea . |
| 6 | Jazz rhythms emerged as easily as did the eastern element and music of genuine integrity was the result . |