Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] it as [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ And after that , ’ Woolley said , ‘ you will come back here and stop the German air force from examining the hole which their artillery has just blown in the British Line , a hole about the size of Lancashire , and that will be the biggest waste of time of all , because the German Army found that hole an hour ago , and is now galloping through it as fast as its little legs will carry it , heading in the direction of … ’ he snipped the final toe-nail and straightened his leg to study the fault' … us . ’
2 Apart from moving through it as fast as possible on a pair of skis , ’ he added with an unexpected flash of humour .
3 I was speeding toward it as fast as gravity could take me .
4 We are dealing with it as well as we can in the circumstances and are beginning to have some real effect .
5 I knew I would be alone all my life so I started preparing for it as soon as possible .
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