Example sentences of "as [adv] as it [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A spokesman said the seven Kurds released from Haslar detention centre , near Gosport , Hampshire , and all 18 from Gloucester Prison were given temporary admission ‘ for as long as it takes to assess their cases ’ . |
| 2 | With its inflation still rising , the country on the verge of a perilous wage-price spiral and public finances deeply in the red , the Bundesbank has made it clear that it will keep the German economy locked in a vice of high interest rates for as long as it takes to squeeze out inflation . |
| 3 | He said that was last Friday , oh I said I was filling my timesheet in and my expense sheet , not that long , I said well it takes as long as it takes do n't it ? |
| 4 | The heating is switched on only for as long as it takes to dry the washing . |
| 5 | When human life could be expected to last two or three times as long as it had done in the Middle Ages , great changes were bound to occur in the way men thought about themselves . |
| 6 | He said the atmosphere at each gathering had been one of calm , loving concern , and this would continue for as long as it took to get the children home . |
| 7 | ‘ Again , I lived with Mike for as long as it took to get the divorce and then I arranged the wedding . |
| 8 | Once Baldwin 's decision was made , the right-wing plot collapsed as suddenly as it had grown up and , as always after prolonged but successful mental strain , he felt free . |
| 9 | It fell silent as suddenly as it had begun . |
| 10 | But just as suddenly as it had begun all this ended three years later , leaving the halls deserted . |
| 11 | The beating ceased , as suddenly as it had begun . |
| 12 | He thought for a moment that it might be some kind of game , that their running would cease as suddenly as it had begun , that they 'd stand like statues on the sand , waiting for him to catch up with them . |
| 13 | It died as suddenly as it had risen . |
| 14 | But his words had deflated Robbie 's anger as suddenly as it had blown up . |
| 15 | Then , just as suddenly as it had appeared , it dived , sliding back into the earth at an immense speed . |
| 16 | The pain had left as suddenly as it had come , except for a small reminder in her back . |
| 17 | Hari 's wash of hurt pride and anger vanished as suddenly as it had come , though she realized that Craig 's words were no more than flattery . |
| 18 | I could sense Lili turning her head to look at me , but the urge to talk , to confess , had left me as suddenly as it had come . |
| 19 | The mortaring stopped just as suddenly as it had started , and it was quiet again . |
| 20 | Then it cut off as suddenly as it had started . |
| 21 | When we actually reached the reef , with calm water erupting into foaming waves twenty feet high as they hit the rocks , the Mantela bucked like a frightened horse , sank into a trough , reared up again , and then , as suddenly as it had started , the old tub was through the creamy foam of the passage and had settled into the lazy waters of the lagoon . |
| 22 | I was buried alive , the pummelling stopped as suddenly as it had started , I heaved myself up and the earth and muck fell off me . |
| 23 | Lacuna 's anger had disappeared as suddenly as it had arrived . |
| 24 | However , as Ketamine lacks the euphoric and social properties that led o the widespread use of MDMA , the drug is likely to disappear as suddenly as it seems to have emerged . |
| 25 | The burst of enthusiasm died as swiftly as it had kindled . |
| 26 | But to be told that he could not make it was to be told that this gift could disappear as unpredictably as it had arrived . |
| 27 | One afternoon a nurserymaid from the castle had appeared with Richard , and her distress had melted as quickly as it had grown . |
| 28 | As it became clear that the Bolsheviks were prepared to make peace on terms which fully restored Polish territorial integrity , the wave of anti-war feeling subsided as quickly as it had appeared . |
| 29 | The expression of good-humoured contempt had vanished as quickly as it had appeared , and suddenly Rostov realised that he had missed an opportunity to relax the tension which existed between them . |
| 30 | the affair blew over as quickly as it had begun , for Bayley removed his sons from the School at the end of the Summer Term . |