Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] as [adv] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was gon na take quite a while so erm we got the base five as quickly as possible so that we had as many hands on the job at once and er we had some formwork getting spare so we decided to make them useful and it 's a case of we 'd got six tanks to do and if we had a breakage we ca n't afford to stop the programme so as a er , a standby , just in case , we may never use these we might three or four uses out of but if we do have a breakage we want to be able to replace that straight away so have a spare set and you 've got nothing more to do and er get the walls , get the er , the back build operation right at the very end , ongoing , till you 've got the waterproofers in er get the waterproofing up to the five meter level and er get the back build in as quickly as possible . |
| 2 | How has a Montpellier fishwife so mastered the art of composition that with her basket of fish for the bouillabaisse she is presenting a picture of such splendour that instead of going to look at the famous collection of paintings in the Musée Fabre you drive off as fast as possible to the coast to order a dish cooked with just such fish ? |
| 3 | Get up as fast as possible . |
| 4 | We must get in , do the job and get out as quickly as POSSIBLE — leaving the place as the public have a right to find it . |
| 5 | Since this is a controversial subject , on which the weight of scholarly opinion probably still supports Böhmer 's thesis that the documents already existed in their contaminated form in 1072 , and were used by Lanfranc in this form , it will perhaps help to clarify a complicated issue if I set out as bluntly as possible the reasons which seem to me to point decisively to 1120 as the date at which the forged additions were inserted into the texts . |
| 6 | Gather up the trimmings and roll out as thinly as possible . |
| 7 | Fall down and crawl left under the wall , push the crate left onto the button and jump up through the roof , go up , left , up on the lift , right , and then fall down , go under the lift and go left to collect the object , go right , up on the lift , left under the wall , up through the roof , up , left , up on the lift , left , push the crate left onto the button , go left along the conveyor belt , go left and collect the battery , now go down as far as possible and enter the door to complete the level . |
| 8 | The origins of this philosophy go back as far as 1970 when Shell and the Nature Conservancy first devised a competition aimed at encouraging young people to come up with ideas to conserve their local environment . |
| 9 | Such claims in fact go back as far as 1926 , but it was with Thom 's careful measurement of many stone circles and alignments in Britain and Brittany that a scientific analysis of the problem could be attempted . |
| 10 | Very few registers go back as far as 1538 . |
| 11 | Few of them , however , go back as far as 1880 , though historical reconstruction can often supplement them . |
| 12 | The Ness is shallow and peaceful , and the murmur of its flowing falls plaintively on the ear , in sympathy with the song of the birds , and the summer tintings of the trees , and the musings of those who seem to love each turning in the paths ; while the waters of the rapids of Niagara make the onlooker hold back his breath , and keep back as far as possible from the wild leaping of the swift-rushing waters . |
| 13 | ‘ Trying to shop with three children in tow is no joke — I just gallop round as quickly as possible . |