Example sentences of "have [vb pp] as [adv] as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end Maggie dragooned four Australian chaps , and a Cockney girl who 'd volunteered as soon as she 'd heard help was needed . |
| 2 | " So what would you normally have done as soon as you arrived if this had been an ordinary Thursday ? |
| 3 | Which , if she 'd thought about it , she realised she should have done as soon as she 'd seen the dog making for her — rather than idiotically go forward the way she had . |
| 4 | In London , the Compact has been so successful that children who would previously have left as soon as they reached the school-leaving age of sixteen , are deciding to stay on at school to take further exams . |
| 5 | He had realised as soon as he had employed Michael that he had found himself a kindred spirit . |
| 6 | Maurice , an amiable young man , had realised as soon as he came to the Reach that Richard was always going to do this and that he himself would accordingly be known as Dondeschiepolschuygen IV which was inscribed in gilt lettering on his bows . |
| 7 | ‘ You 'll have to get a photo of it when it 's finished , ’ Ian Jones said as he finished the meal of fish , salad and chips that Belinda had prepared as soon as she arrived . |
| 8 | Was this what she had felt as soon as she had seen him — a man who would interfere with her life ? |
| 9 | She had known as soon as they had arrived at the lodge that her heart had made the right decision , even though it felt irresponsible and utterly childish to be spending a summer like this , at her age , and after all the work she had done to put the initials MD after her name . |
| 10 | But she had known as soon as she had seen the glazed eye that this was death . |
| 11 | He had left as soon as he could , leaving Joe to consume half a bottle of whisky whole he raced through the backstreets , slowing to a walk only when he spotted someone approaching . |
| 12 | All the clothes on the line were frozen solid , as the water in them had iced as soon as we had put them out . |
| 13 | A local man , known throughout his youth to be a steady worker , apprenticed to a mason , had married as soon as he came out of his apprenticeship , a girl from Rydal , nearby , and they had five children . |
| 14 | I do not mean to imply , he wrote , that nothing existed before that moment , no plans , no designs , no sketches and no notes , of course there were plans and designs , sketches and notes , how could there not be , he wrote , when my whole life has been nothing but a preparation for this beginning , not only in the sense that everyone 's life is always a preparation for every beginning in that life but in the quite specific sense that my own life has always been a preparation for this beginning , nothing but a preparation for this beginning , both consciously and unconsciously , with everything I have done as well as everything I have thought , everything I have felt as well as everything I have suffered . |
| 15 | I do not mean to imply , he wrote , that nothing existed before that moment , no plans , no designs , no sketches and no notes , of course there were plans and designs , sketches and notes , how could there not be , he wrote , when my whole life has been nothing but a preparation for this beginning , not only in the sense that everyone 's life is always a preparation for every beginning in that life but in the quite specific sense that my own life has always been a preparation for this beginning , nothing but a preparation for this beginning , both consciously and unconsciously , with everything I have done as well as everything I have thought , everything I have felt as well as everything I have suffered . |