Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | These may stem from hormonal changes in the woman , from social pressures , from changes in marital or parental role , from career considerations ( especially in the man , who may realise that , at this stage of life , he has gone as far as he is likely to go ) and/or from other causes . |
| 2 | Unable to find work after leaving the army , which he joined at 16 , he has travelled as far as Holland in search of a job — but to no avail . |
| 3 | He stopped trembling as quickly as he had begun a moment before and seemed to withdraw down the dark passage to the daydream he was locked in when they first arrived . |
| 4 | Poor Nutmeg was very scared , he began to run as fast as he could . |
| 5 | He started to travel as slowly as possible in the hope that the King would change his mind . |
| 6 | He decided to start as softly as possible . |
| 7 | He heard a cry from the top + the sound of something falling , but he kept running as fast as he could , meowing loudly . |
| 8 | Proust is also exceptionally aware I think of a , of the , the , the complex nature of reality , a reality built up in a number of layers , so that his sentences are made even longer than might otherwise have been the case , by the introduction of successive subordinate clauses , in which he seeks to qualify as precisely as possible what he is saying . |
| 9 | North once told Secord that he had gone so far as to mention to the President that the Ayatollah was helping the contras . |
| 10 | He felt he had gone as far as he could in the company and learned as much as he was likely to . |
| 11 | She asked whether he had gone as far as the well-pit and the El-ahrairah of Laburnum . |
| 12 | He had gone as far as he could go . |
| 13 | There are certain inconsistencies in Leandre 's story , but he was obviously describing what he had experienced as well as he could remember it . |
| 14 | He had got as far as the packaging and labelling them at his premises prior to taking them to the ship . |
| 15 | Perhaps he was looking for a drink by the time he had climbed as far as the Piazza where three renaissance palaces , a town hall and cathedral confront each other across an open space of such lively dignity and harmony as to make the lack of tourist cafes completely forgivable . |
| 16 | He had been a scholarship boy himself , and he wished to ensure as far as possible that families without financial resources should be enabled to send their boys to the School . |
| 17 | In Canberra last week , he continued to blow as coldly as he had at Twickenham earlier this month and was disappointing , though whether he will be react positively to being dropped is a moot point . |
| 18 | Now on the seventeenth of September Mr met Peter on the defendant 's firm er for the first time at his office , where they had er a general discussion about the business and about what needed to be done in order to secure it and er the plaintiffs at that stage told Peter that there should be er no problems over finance as he understood the bank were willing to assist and at that stage he wanted to move as quickly as possible to exchange contracts on the business erm , for two reasons . |
| 19 | By the time we worked it loose and got aboard again , Dennis 's initial fit had passed , but he was still adamant that he wanted to get as far as the Thames . |
| 20 | How how did people feel about , because well if you read read Alan Alan book , then he 's criticized very strongly as being too militant , and r well really Cri preferred to him . |