Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [adv] as [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pressed very hard by Lauda in the final laps — ‘ leading a race was a brand-new experience for me , ’ he admitted at the time — he simply clung to his lead by driving as hard as he could . |
| 2 | They were rowing as fast as they could towards the ship ! |
| 3 | She continued walking as fast as she could away from Emminster . |
| 4 | 56-56 Spencer , and came right towards me looking at the ground , then looking up quick as he must have sensed me . |
| 5 | In seeking ways in which planning procedures could be made more efficient , the committee noted that ‘ not all authorities are operating as efficiently as they might ’ and the greatest scope for improvement lay in assisting all authorities to reach the standard set by the best . |
| 6 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 7 | ‘ His hip 's not mending as quickly as it ought , which makes him very impatient . |
| 8 | With his right arm he swam , and with his left he waved wildly , shouting as loudly as he could . |
| 9 | It is all turning out just as it should . |
| 10 | [ aside ] Go on , my dear mother , improving as fast as you will . |
| 11 | The brindle hounds , John Deverill 's speciality and obsession , stood well to order at one side of the drive with the whippers-in waiting as patiently as they could for the order to move off . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm waiting as patiently as I can but it 's getting a pain now . |
| 13 | ‘ I was going as carefully as I could because I had a 25-second cushion over Berger so I was able to slow down a bit and the pain eased . |
| 14 | And I 'm going as slow as I can go and I 'm just taking everything in , and I 'm unwinding , I 'm relaxing mentally and physically as I do it because that 's what I feel I need at the moment , and having that ability is good . |
| 15 | Things were going as badly as they could . |
| 16 | We were going as fast as we could . ’ |
| 17 | I do n't think it is going as fast as it can . |
| 18 | ‘ I went to the afterguard and said our boats are not optimised or going as fast as I would like and asked for recommendations , ’ said Koch . |
| 19 | I , I , I was lucky in the three ground I went too the worst that ever happened to me was I was put head first into a dustbin , but luckily it had been emptied it was still well mucky , but I just fucking went and had a shower , and I come out of the shower and I 'd got pounced upon again and I was there , it must of been a funny site , there 's me right in just a pair of fucking deck chairs that we used to wear for the , the shower block right , fucking shaving , er like the wash kit bag in my right hand and I was holding me fucking towel round , round me waist with me left , I was streaking across the play ground , going as fast as I could |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm going as fast as I can , ’ cried Endill . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm going as fast as I can . ’ |
| 22 | It was silent , relentless , always going as hard as we could — I was virtually holding you clear as the blows , they felt like blows , pummelled you . |
| 23 | He no longer expects to win major tournaments but he settles for creating a noisy sensation in going as far as he can go . |
| 24 | I 've got a shattered arm as well which means that I can really use only one arm , but I have to keep the muscles in the other one going as far as I can . ’ |
| 25 | Luckily , the bus was n't going as quickly as it would have had there been no traffic , but it was still doing twenty-odd mph . |
| 26 | Nothing she said , just a way she has of slightly turning and doing something else and not replying as quickly as she might . |
| 27 | Constance came hurrying as fast as she could with her stick . |
| 28 | ‘ God , it 's handy having you around ! ’ says Phil , scribbling as fast as he can . |
| 29 | Among the gentry residing there was to be found Mr Benedict Beckenham , riding as hard as he could to the devil . |
| 30 | Corydon , speaking as well as he can in Mira 's defence , observes : |