Example sentences of "to [pron] [adv] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The offices are used not just by us but also by several local voluntary organisations , and we are anxious that they can have access to them again as soon as possible , ’ Mr Alton said . |
| 2 | It is odd , and neatly illustrative of the contradiction in Spartan attitudes , that Herodotus can say of the Spartan-led Greeks in the same period that Samos ‘ seemed to them as far away as the Rock of Gibraltar ’ , while telling elsewhere in his book of a Spartan , son of Archias , who was called Samios because of his father 's Samian links ( viii . |
| 3 | I had to give her a little reminder now and then , to stop her attempting to fly off into the wide blue yonder , by gently pulling the leash , but within two days she was coming to me just as willingly as she had on the straight creance . |
| 4 | But I need n't have worried , she came to me just as smoothly as before , and I flew her half a dozen times a session over the next four days . |
| 5 | Resolving to pass them on to someone else as soon as possible , Robert took hold of both locket and manuscript and put them in his jacket pocket . |