Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [adv] as [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Gore stood in the dock looking straight ahead as the charges were read to him . |
| 2 | ‘ I was only venturing as far as the bathroom , ’ she said with dignity . |
| 3 | And are you now going to take that any further or are you going as far as the government wants you to go as this stage ? |
| 4 | He wondered if Slater intended to walk the whole way with him , or whether he was only going as far as the Air Gallery , now only just across the street , where he sometimes went in the afternoons . |
| 5 | Her husband , Jack , used to sell fruit and vegetables from a horse and cart , going as far as the top of Baldersdale to find custom He was well known to all the elder members of the Hauxwell family , including Hannah 's mother and father . |
| 6 | Without going as far as The Unfortunates , the forms of all the novels mentioned introduce a comparable questioning of conventional patterns and expectations , often heightened by the novelists ' explicit commentary on their own activity . |
| 7 | And you instead of taking the instead of going as far as the traffic lights to come to us , you take the exit before that which is |
| 8 | THE good news yesterday was that the public sector borrowing requirement may not be growing as fast as the pessimists feared , and the need for tax increases in the Budget may not be as insistent as some analysts believe . |
| 9 | Similarly it might be proper to consider as ‘ Pacific ’ only those Americans who live west of De Soto , Missouri ( the median point of the population , moving slowly ever-westward as the people do the same ) , or , in Australia , those east of Alice Springs . |
| 10 | Most gliders are very reluctant to stall in the slip ( try it some time ) , but if the recovery is made at a low speed , or the pilot forgets to ease forwards to prevent the nose rising during the recovery , there is a very real danger of stalling or of flying rather slowly as the glider encounters the wind gradient . |
| 11 | In Suleyman 's time he returned to the medrese stream , teaching as far as the Sahn and then becoming kadi successively in Aleppo , Damascus and Istanbul , in retirement from which last post he died in 963/1555–6 . |
| 12 | Several people mentioned that getting as far as the interview was the main problem . |
| 13 | ‘ Queen of Pleasures , ’ he smiled , speaking as gently as a man can . |
| 14 | They headed south-east from the city , the Ferrari moving as fast as the wind , following the ‘ Via Tuscolana ’ signs for Frascati where , Nicolo insisted , they would find the best white wine in the world . |
| 15 | A Hanoverian stallion , with thick neck and muscular quarters , was moving as lightly as an Arab in a balanced , energetic , collected walk . |
| 16 | In the Midlands it is the tree one sees most often : and for a brief spell in early sum-mer it is the most beautiful of all the Midland trees , with its continuous miles of white may blossom glimmering as far as the eye can see . |
| 17 | Into this lethal mêlée flew the Lordly Phantasms , flourishing their laspistols and power stilettos , their gowns fluttering as phosphorescently as the wings of radioactive moths , their daemon-masks leering . |
| 18 | Wa looked at the man leaning back in his chair , his black-clad frame resting as nonchalantly as a Rimland puma on a jungle branch , and decided that Gorrin atop Small Gods temple would soon be joining those little deities in the multifold dimensions of Beyond . |
| 19 | Always in the leading group , McMahon pushed to the front before the last where he was challenged by the favourite Over the Edge , but keeping his mount perfectly balanced and running as straight as a gun barrel , McMahon found something left in the ‘ Tank ’ and went on to score a snug success . |
| 20 | Elisabeth was torn between retreating at once , following the path back the way she had come , or continuing as far as the colonnade to look through the windows into the music room . |
| 21 | In time , the station would resolve itself , healing as invisibly as a wound in the deep of his brain . |
| 22 | I followed him down from 2,000 feet — put carb heat on — I was descending as quickly as the helicopter ; we managed to keep him visual . |
| 23 | He began to play , conscious now of the boy watching , of him edging slowly closer as the stones were laid , the board filled up again . |
| 24 | In a region of high rolling hills , the wall is like a gigantic roller-coaster extending as far as the eye can see to east and west ; Garvine wrote of the wall that it ‘ is built on such a scale that you would think it was the work of Gods rather than men ’ . |
| 25 | It is a superb sight with fields of dazzling Tulips , Narcissi and Hyacinths extending as far as the eye can see in a variegated patchwork of brilliant regimented blocks . |
| 26 | And perhaps it was just as well because there , on the seat of the rag cart and sitting as patiently as the pony was standing , was Ben . |
| 27 | Halifax , however , was always more equivocal ; he was trying as late as the battle for France to keep the option of peace talks open , if they could preserve the independence of the British Empire . |
| 28 | When in 1862 the general synod of the SEC removed the Scottish communion office from its primacy of authority over the English Book of Common Prayer he took the Episcopal bishops to court , appealing as far as the House of Lords ; he defended his case himself but lost the action in 1867 . |
| 29 | I slumped to the ground , despair weighing as heavily as the load on my back . |
| 30 | An excursion to the top of the high alpine road of Gross Glockner will leave you breathless at the fantastic views stretching as far as the eye can see in every direction . |