Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [pers pn] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim of these and other schemes is to provide flexible cost-effective services responsive to the needs of the frail elderly and designed to keep them as long as possible in their own homes rather than an institutional environment . |
| 2 | I am working with them on what can be done to help them as soon as possible . ’ |
| 3 | True , the disease would sooner or later reach Norway after travelling up through Finland , but the Norwegian government had decided to stall it as long as possible . |
| 4 | On we walk , discussing hobbies , like two old geezers , and she tells e how nice it is to talk to me like this as sometimes she feels she has n't got to know me as well as she would have liked . |
| 5 | We had several pieces of rolling stock stored at Councillor Jim McBriar 's farm , and as he was considering selling the land on which they were sitting , we were asked to remove them as quickly as possible . |
| 6 | How had he managed to get us as far as that ? |
| 7 | For example , loud clothing will create the disturbing feeling among the Japanese businessmen that the foreigner has perhaps failed to take them as seriously as he might have , by failing to observe that the common practice in dress in Japan is some degree of formality . |