Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [pron] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only hummingbirds with curved bills can drink from them and their beaks fit into them as accurately as a curved dagger sliding into its scabbard . |
| 2 | And if you should run into difficulties repaying your overdraft , please speak to us as early as possible . |
| 3 | I have said things to you , Bodenland , which I have said to no man ; see that they repose in you as securely as in a grave . |
| 4 | While , therefore , he accepted the idea , of an invisible church of the elect , Whitgift rejected any suggestion that it should be synonymous with the visible church of this world , arguing that : ‘ We must walk in those ways that God hath appointed to bring them [ the reprobate ] to salvation which is to feed them continually and watch over them so long as they are in danger . ’ |
| 5 | They were her Aladdin 's caves and , ever since her inheritance , open to her as often as she chose , though for most of the year she contented herself with a reminder of them in the small parcels . |
| 6 | He was to set out with the three French patrols , drive the hundred-odd miles to the Gabes Gap and pass through it as quickly as possible to create confusion in the enemy rear areas . |