Example sentences of "as [adv] as it [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bruce claimant to the throne had just died , but his son and grandson were determined to assert family rights , even if it meant offering their services to Edward I for as long as it might take to drive the Comyns from the seized lands in Annandale . |
| 2 | Some of the boys followed and we went down into the basement and I turned the phonograph on as loud as it would play . |
| 3 | However , if prisoners are at risk of sentence under the Public Order Act 1986 , the pack of information can explain that just as easily as it can explain the contents of this miserable and irrelevant little Bill . |
| 4 | And it has a sonar location and detection system that can pick up a sunken object at the bottom of the ocean just as easily as it can pinpoint a lurking submarine . |
| 5 | Luckily , the bus was n't going as quickly as it would have had there been no traffic , but it was still doing twenty-odd mph . |
| 6 | But , in my experience , if this is the case although it is possible to plant a new church it will not happen nearly as quickly as it will do if someone can make themselves available full-time . |
| 7 | Because the quality of water was good and the price relatively low , it had not been used ‘ as wisely as it might have been ’ . |
| 8 | He squatted down and propped it against a clump of little bushes , pulling up the aerial as far as it would go . |
| 9 | The man , who had winched his seat back as far as it would go , lay beside her , staring up through the sunroof at the sky which was now a pure and empty blue . |
| 10 | Tommy Grant placed the big , round , iron , copper-lined sugar pan on the side of the stove , straightened his back as far as it would go ; then , turning to the bench , he pointed to the five tin trays of liquid toffee , saying , ‘ That should give us a fresh start in the mornin' , miss . |
| 11 | So far from abandoning our folly , we started pushing it as far as it would go . |
| 12 | I put my tongue out at them as far as it would go . |
| 13 | His chair was tilted back as far as it would go . |
| 14 | He brought back his foot as far as it would go and channelled all its hydraulic power into a forceful throw . |
| 15 | He slipped the matchbox under the netting and pushed it back as far as it would go . |
| 16 | She straightened , stretching her neck as far as it would go , meeting his eyes , if not levelly , at least unwaveringly , as he answered , ‘ A romantic go-between is someone who helps set up romantic meetings . |
| 17 | He lighted his cigar , puffed furiously , sank back in his seat , as far as it would allow him to , and stared fixedly through the windscreen , already lightly furred with snow . |
| 18 | However the government has not gone as far as it might have . |
| 19 | When he asked , then , ‘ What has Ingeld to do with Christ ? ’ , he was using Ingeld as an example of the most extreme gap between good ‘ heroic ’ behaviour and good Christian behaviour ; Ingeld took unforgivingness as far as it could go . |
| 20 | Merely pushing the lever forwards as far as it will go is not enough because the lock may be very stiff . |
| 21 | ‘ Beineix dares much , pushing farce as far as it will go while simultaneously building the momentum that catapults the film into its tragic destination . |
| 22 | You feel a soft click through your fingers before you have pressed a key as far as it will go . |
| 23 | Make sure that the pattern is straight and gently feed it down as far as it will go . |
| 24 | ‘ Umm , I just turn my guitar up as far as it will go , ’ explains the puzzled axe hero . |
| 25 | I find a track leading off the road into a stand of trees ; I take the car up as far as it will go , then turn the lights out . |
| 26 | Then pull each leg away in opposite directions as far as it will go . |
| 27 | When the body is bent forward as far as it will go , the leg muscles are held tense and the position maintained for a count of ten . |
| 28 | The student sits on the floor and opens his legs in front of him , pushing his body weight forward as far as it will go . |
| 29 | If , instead of ( 29 ) , I say ( 30 ) , then I direct you to pay particular attention and care to each of the operations involved in doing ( 29 ) , this being an implicature of the use of the longer expression : ( 29 ) Open the door ( 30 ) Walk up to the door , turn the door handle clockwise as far as it will go , and then pull gently towards you But perhaps the most important of the sub-maxims of Manner is the fourth , " be orderly " . |
| 30 | Instead , I propose taking the logic of generic concentration as far as it can go , with a degree which would study , in detail , a single genre , poetry . |