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 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 .
4 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 .
5 they 've lost as far as money 's concerned .
6 but , er , I do n't think they 've got as far as yours have
7 By the time he got to his cab , they had gone as far as Holborn Circus .
8 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 .
9 Duncan looked at Myeloski ; they had gone as far as they could with the air-traffic controller .
10 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 .
11 They had worked so hard as children in the fields that each field and tree had become a dear presence , especially the hedges .
12 They had spread as far as he could see , grown up to the ceiling and broken through it .
13 They had taken as long as seventeen days to examine seventy-five schemes .
14 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 .
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