Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [verb] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.

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1 But having let himself sink as far as he could go , he began to rise and with such gathering force and fury that he not only routed all who had disbelieved in him , he left even the believers agape .
2 And if she did n't rush , how come she fell so heavily as to make that sort of wound ?
3 In this case a control group would be selected which matches as closely as possible , member for member , the characteristics of the people constituting the experimental group .
4 She 'd never seen anyone move as fast as he did when he put poor old Dan Pearson on his back .
5 I have never seen anyone run as quickly as Holmes ran that night , and I could not keep up with him .
6 " I 've never seen anything work as fast as that injection . "
7 But even so , you would n't have thought it went as fast as that in a creature that moves so slowly , would you , Miss Honey ? ’
8 She said she had never realised what went on before as she went round and inhabited each seat and became the person .
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