Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] as [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a particular monkey is chased and harried for as long as ten minutes , it may become so stressed that eventually it gives up trying to escape and sits to face its death without screaming or even resisting when the hunters finally seize it . |
| 2 | Military ordered came from as far afield as India , Malaysia , Africa and , of course , Canada . |
| 3 | The animal skulls resting on the mantelpiece came from as far afield as Arizona and India , and some were brought back to be drawing subjects in more works of art |
| 4 | More striking still , fragments of the shell of Cassis rufa from the Grotte des Enfants near Mentone came from as far away as the Indian Ocean . |
| 5 | People and dogs came from as far away as Oxford to take part in this event which must have left them all fitter and leaner at the end of the day . |
| 6 | It might be early days but this approach falls a long way short of forging a relationship with the viewer and when he turned to the big screen to ask a reporter a single question , it came across as completely contrived . |
| 7 | The receiver was snatched at the first ring and Massingham 's disciplined impatience came across as strongly as his voice . |
| 8 | Yeah I mean you coped be er you , you came across as very natural , you knew your script er friendly enthusiastic , yeah , no slang , belief was there , attentive to Ian 's responses , yeah , picked up the names mentioned earlier , eye contact when yeah er that . |
| 9 | I think it would be best if you came across as nobly resigned : ‘ How could she stoop to do this to me ’ — something along those lines — without going into too much detail . |
| 10 | Or rather , it was bumping and grinding the heels of its expensive floats against the tarmac on a lee shore — so we all clambered aboard as quickly as possible . |
| 11 | He climbed a different shelf each day and hid for as long as he could behind piles of books , hoping to catch sight of what he called ‘ the Bookman' ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ It sounds lousy , but the great advantage to Celeste — and the reason why our relationship survived for as long as it did — was that she never had much of an impact on either my feelings or my thoughts . |
| 13 | Measurements of calcium in fertilized eggs or lymphocytes following mitogenic stimulation revealed the existence of repetitive calcium spikes which persisted for as long as several hours . |
| 14 | What had come to the poets in their most serene or passionate moments we glided into as easily as we gathered flowers for Maud or Blanche or Mabel , as we lay in the grass with our eyes divided between the books , the land and the clouds . |
| 15 | The other day a woman rang from as far away as — ’ Ashley stopped , aware of chattering again . |
| 16 | For a week , producer Robert Kemp had free run of the camp , interviewing whoever he chose for as long as he chose . |
| 17 | He was a very earnest , very intelligent gentleman — and very much a gentleman , whom I never thought of as particularly ambitious . |
| 18 | Furthermore , Engels argues , marriage and the family — these ideas which Victorians thought of as peculiarly linked with private life and as having nothing to do with political and economic life — are in reality intimately associated with it . |
| 19 | They report the occurrence of certain sensory stimuli , and the stimuli are here thought of as publicly available ; the same stimuli can occur to more than one person . |
| 20 | Knowing ( from expensive experience elsewhere ! ) how important it is to keep the fabric in good order , I propose to get this attended to as soon as possible . |
| 21 | But leave him there alone and snared for as long as ten days , and yes , if he had by then any secrets left , he would confide them all in exchange for the air of the great court , and the music of the Office . |
| 22 | That is , indeed , the line which has been taken in cases concerning the Scottish Union legislation ( e.g. McCormick v Lord Advocate , [ 1953 ] SC 396 ; Gibson v Lord Advocate , ( 1975 ) SLT 134 ) which , however , have failed thus far because none of the acts complained of as allegedly infringing the terms of union ( e.g. the conferment upon Her Majesty by the Royal Titles Act 1953 of the title of ‘ Queen Elizabeth the Second ’ , when there had never been an Elizabeth the First of Scotland ) has in fact infringed those terms . |
| 23 | It was surrounded by a moat spanned by a fragile bridge which they cantered across as quickly as possible into a dusty courtyard . |
| 24 | Fewer than one-third of the outbursts lasted for as long as five minutes . |
| 25 | So we had to as soon as they come we had to open a trench and heel them in do you see . |
| 26 | Steve got by as best he knew how . |
| 27 | It is unlikely that he would have gone to a children 's home in the first place and stayed for as long as he did before fostering was tried . |
| 28 | He stayed for as long as it took him to finish his beer . |
| 29 | Wheatstone 's work in telegraphy seemed to show that electricity travelled about as fast as light , and Faraday believed that it must go just as fast ; he also believed that gravity must be analogous to other attractive forces , and take time for its propagation , though there was no evidence for this . |
| 30 | Competitors travelled from as far afield as Middlesex , Berks and Kent for the end of season unaffiliated dressage championships held at Parwood Equestrian Centre , Normandy last week . |