Example sentences of "[vb past] as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 8.16 from Darlington and the returning 10.38 behaved as impeccably as the reception class at a Victorian Sunday school . |
| 2 | Determined to fight , I shouted as loudly as I could . |
| 3 | I shouted as loudly as I could . |
| 4 | I waved my arms and shouted as loudly as possible . |
| 5 | Opening it wide , she shouted as loud as she could : ‘ I 'm warning you lot , one more noise and I 'll come up there and scalp the arses off yer ! ’ |
| 6 | They innovated as far as possible under the 1948 Act but eventually secured a further Act , in 1963 , which legitimated ‘ preventive ’ work . |
| 7 | ‘ I trained as hard as I could and spend 2½ hours in the gym every day for six months , ’ said Smith , adding confidently , ‘ the winter has done its job . ’ |
| 8 | She returned Travis 's kiss warmly , then bent as well as she could to hug Jonas . |
| 9 | Eubank 's priority is to recover from a badly-bruised right forearm , sustained as early as the second round of a unanimous victory which stretched his winning sequence to 35 . |
| 10 | They also showed me the silver anklets for state elephants ( used until the 1930s ) and silver palanquins , used as recently as the 1950s . |
| 11 | He saw himself as a buffoon with nasty reserves of observation , a man with goonish spectacles clamped round his ears and perfidy in his guts , and he felt so appalled by his mistrust of an old friend who must surely be taken for an ally that he tried as fast as possible to invent some headway on the project about Berlin . |
| 12 | Though she tried as faithfully as she might to devote herself to the needs of this rude community , she knew that she was not greatly liked and the knowledge injured her . |
| 13 | She herself was British , in fact , but having spent several years as a graduate student in California , where she had been converted to radical feminism , she now thought of herself as spiritually an American , and tried as far as possible to speak like one . |
| 14 | In our first Report we tried as far as possible to avoid the word ‘ grammar ’ , and to explain how important it was for children to use linguistic terminology . |
| 15 | ‘ The measure as revised by the committee tried as hard as possible to accommodate the views of those who object to women priests . |
| 16 | If she was judged on her effort , then she regards the judgement as unfair since she tried as hard as she could . |
| 17 | Spain tried as early as 1852 to establish the principle of entrance by competitive examination . |
| 18 | He trembled as intensely as a fly whirs its wings , and stopped talking . |
| 19 | To Branson 's irritation , McLaren prevaricated as long as possible , affecting the disinterest of an ingénue being courted by a philanderer . |
| 20 | The oppressive regime I had anticipated was not apparent and the whole complex seemed clean , active and designed as far as possible to provide reasonable conditions and amenities for its inmates . |
| 21 | DOUBLE STANDARDS have prevailed in world cricket for some years now , demonstrated as forcibly as anywhere else in the sage of South Africa . |
| 22 | The reputation of number eighty-two was widespread , and prior to the outbreak of the Great War , it ranked as highly as any of the European brothels , and was reputed to number amongst its clients the very highest in the land . |
| 23 | But the Bratianu family abided as often as not by the principles of its imported Western liberalism as its inherited clannishness . |
| 24 | Substantial supplies had to wait on the mining of reefs first found as late as 1880 outcropping on the Tawmaw plateau . |
| 25 | For this reason it would appear likely that bones modified as greatly as these would be uncommon in the fossil record , and the predators that produce them unlikely to be important contributors to fossil bone assemblages . |
| 26 | After the interview I mentioned as casually as I could that as a result of blocked sinuses I had lost my sense of smell ( with the exceptions of petrol , laundry and excrement ) for years , and could he think of any way of restoring it ? |
| 27 | The ferry across the Derwent , mentioned as early as 1315 , was last mentioned in the middle of the 17th century . |
| 28 | In fact , Labov 's propensity to set out patterns in his data in a highly visual way is quite in the spirit of exploratory statistics ; but the data are not presented as comprehensively nor analysed as thoroughly as they would be using Tukey 's principles . |
| 29 | Dandelion swam as well as he ran , swiftly and easily . |
| 30 | Prescott 's enumeration of Labour 's ‘ old vision ’ was inadequate — because of what it excluded as well as for its needless commitment to public ownership . |