Example sentences of "[verb] about [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , serious again , he continued soberly , ‘ Anyway , as I wuz sayin' , I do n't think we 've anythin' to worry about as far as this Angel One fella 's concerned . |
| 2 | Well , there , there going to understand what they , what they 've written about as well as . |
| 3 | The domestic dog is thought to have evolved from the wolf , yet wolves and other wild dogs bark about as often as they appear at Crufts . |
| 4 | Whales do n't fly , but they do swim , and swim about as efficiently as swallows fly . |
| 5 | Once we had got our jobs for the morning we set about then eagerly as everything had to be perfect right down to the last detail . |
| 6 | Nature in our garden seems to stretch about as far as our three Indian runner ducks , whose sole interests in life are lettuce , bread and little things which wriggle ; and the frogs in the pond who spend summer days sunning themselves on the warm cement slabs surrounding the off-green water . |
| 7 | Informed sources say neither the more realistically-minded East German leaders nor the Russians believe that any sensible changes can be brought about so long as Mr Honecker , 77 , whose attitudes have become particularly rigid in recent months , is at the helm . |
| 8 | erm that went about as well as the first maths one . |
| 9 | Well , Paul went about as quickly as you can go ; I was certainly humane that time . |
| 10 | One look at the screenshots will tell you this is n't a dodgy Speccy port , updating about as fast as a reasonably athletic snail . |
| 11 | Democracy in pop works about as well as golf in space . |