Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pron] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Flood the butcher had looked at them very strangely as they walked up the street . |
| 2 | There had not been time yet to find out exactly how brilliant the child was , but Miss Honey had learned enough to realise that something had to be done about it as soon as possible . |
| 3 | Since our first arrival here , their Seductive Highnesses had flirted with us as consistently as had their father ensured that we were together only during public occasions . |
| 4 | ‘ Not I. You might as well call it Trouble up at t'Mill and have done with it as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 5 | Provided that they have done so , and that the child has been matched with them as carefully as possible so that they can best meet his or her needs , their situation is likely to be no different from that of any other family with teenagers . |
| 6 | ‘ has liberated English public law from the fetters that the courts had theretofore imposed upon themselves so far as determinations of inferior courts and statutory tribunals were concerned , by drawing esoteric distinctions between errors of law committed by such tribunals that went to their jurisdiction , and errors of law committed by them within their jurisdiction . |
| 7 | ‘ has liberated English public law from the fetters that the courts had theretofore imposed upon themselves so far as determinations of inferior courts and statutory tribunals were concerned , by drawing esoteric distinctions between errors of law committed by such tribunals that went to their jurisdiction , and errors of law committed by them within their jurisdiction . |
| 8 | For example , a centred heading above justified text would become blocked at the left-hand margin if Alt+P was applied to it as well as to the text below . |
| 9 | One tale was told to him as recently as August 1983 . |
| 10 | So , er , I 'm sure we all know them , how to stop them coming , or get rid of them as soon as possible . |
| 11 | Now this I dependably find a real throw-up number but there 's never anything too horrendous because , as my colleagues are always saying , we 're at the darning-and-patching level of the biomedical business : the serious cases we bring in direct , and at speed , from the city hospitals , and we in our turn get rid of them as quickly as we can . |
| 12 | Then she said : ‘ So you see , I 'm making myself as unpleasant as I can — and I assure you I can ! — to make them want to get rid of me as soon as possible . ’ |
| 13 | Then the other one , whom your sister thinks must be the owner of the farm , apologized for a ‘ case of mistaken identity ’ , as he called it , and got rid of me as quickly as possible . |
| 14 | ‘ Maybe she just panicked for the moment , wanted to get rid of it as soon as possible . ’ |
| 15 | If that golf-club was used to attack Alain , the killer would want to get rid of it as quickly as possible . ’ |
| 16 | They were bound by it so long as it was not in conflict with their statutory duty . |
| 17 | If there is a Community Insulation Project in your area , NEA will arrange for you to be contacted by them as soon as possible . |
| 18 | Keeping my feelings hidden from him as well as I could , I suggested that the hospital was becoming too obvious and dangerous a hiding place . |
| 19 | The moors stretched before her as far as the eye could see , in fold after fold of snow-covered dunes . |
| 20 | ‘ All else failing , a man 's character may be inferred from nothing so surely as the jest he takes in bad part . ’ |
| 21 | It 's happened to me as recently as May 3rd . |
| 22 | They say that nobody remembers who came second but when that has happened to you as often as it has to Montgomerie , it is difficult to forget . |
| 23 | In response to a question put to him shortly afterwards as to how many participating countries he thought would be necessary to make the proposed structure viable , Schuman simply stated , ‘ if necessary , we shall go ahead with only two ’ . |
| 24 | We 'll get it cleared for you as soon as possible . ’ |
| 25 | One would think that monastic orderliness would be ingrained in one as deep as heart 's blood , by thirty-five , but it did not seem so , with me . |
| 26 | And Ellen never replied now , not even with a note , though money was sent to her as regularly as ever . |
| 27 | As one who has listened to nothing as often as BM 's solo albums these last two years ( OK , you 've established your credentials , now come to the point — IM ) I can not speak highly enough of the man ( try a step-ladder — IM ) . |
| 28 | It had been returned to him almost exactly as he had sent it , with no covering letter or word of explanation . |
| 29 | If a house-to-house or Street Collection takes place this form must be completed and returned to us as soon as possible . |