Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | They tend to subside as quickly as they arise . |
| 2 | They also saw it as an opportunity to get the packages of care that they sought implemented as early as possible . |
| 3 | They had been friends for long enough , they 'd been to school together for a little while until geography had pushed them apart , then they 'd met up again as older teenagers , both interested in bars and snooker , then in girls . |
| 4 | As the rain gradually died away , birds began to fight and squabble like fractious children just allowed out after being cooped up indoors ; but then they did n't have leaky roofs ; neither did they have to climb up there as soon as it was light to inspect the damage ; or have a meeting with Leo , the thought of which made her feel weak inside . |
| 5 | This means that Snotlings can be very frustrating to fight , because no matter how many are slain they keep fighting so long as their neighbours hold steady . |
| 6 | Yes so lots of games for United to play at the moment with the postponements , a lot of mid-week games , a lot of games up here at the Manor , but erm as so often happens with United , after a good performance or a little a good run , they never quite do it at home do they , they never quite kill sides off and they draw in games that they 've played very well as they have done today . |
| 7 | they 've lost as far as money 's concerned . |
| 8 | but , er , I do n't think they 've got as far as yours have |
| 9 | Yeah they 're all up now , and they 've come out just as |
| 10 | By the time he got to his cab , they had gone as far as Holborn Circus . |
| 11 | Passing lamp-lit windows through which they could see sleeping Japanese soldiers and men talking in small groups , they had gone as far as a machine-gun post among the buildings — probably part of the anti-aircraft defences-when a Japanese soldier came up . |
| 12 | Duncan looked at Myeloski ; they had gone as far as they could with the air-traffic controller . |
| 13 | Indeed they had gone so far as to bring one Nicoleyva , from the Soviet Union to plead with British men and women to do just this , and open a second front in Europe . |
| 14 | They had worked so hard as children in the fields that each field and tree had become a dear presence , especially the hedges . |
| 15 | They had spread as far as he could see , grown up to the ceiling and broken through it . |
| 16 | They had taken as long as seventeen days to examine seventy-five schemes . |
| 17 | Fleury 's cakes had not turned out very well ; in fact they had dried as hard as the stone they were baked on , and had to be chipped off with a bayonet . |