Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regular correspondence with the revered minimalist La Monte Young introduced him to the Dadaist movement Fluxus , but by the time he had won a Leonard Bernstein scholarship to the Berkshire School of Music in Massachusetts , ‘ I felt I 'd run my course as far as the avant-garde was concerned ’ . |
| 2 | Well , that 's where you 're in error , both of you , because I 've set my course as far as you 're concerned , Master Tristram , and now I 'll hold to it . |
| 3 | Only I would wish to tell my sister as soon as possible and put paid to her nonsense . |
| 4 | I can count on the fingers of one hand all the journalists I have met who are committed to telling the truth about my field as well as they can discover it , No one could organise censorship so effectively in America , so the distortions in the press must reflect countless more or less independent decisions by editors and reporters which lead to the perpetuation of a misleading and intellectually fallacious understanding of a serious scientific subject . |
| 5 | I have n't made my mind up yet as to whether I shall see it . ’ |
| 6 | Its images unfold in my mind as effortlessly as a story riding on the voice of a parent , a voice so familiar it disappears , entering in the half-dark , soluble in dreams . |
| 7 | If I want to visit a bank for a few minutes , I park my car as near as possible as many do , to be able to rush in and out again as quickly as possible . |
| 8 | ‘ All right , send me your letter , and I promise to reconsider and let you have my reply as soon as possible . ’ |
| 9 | I made my exit as discreetly as possible just as his lordship , still on his feet , was embarking on a further point . |
| 10 | Oh , sweet heaven ! ’ she cried as I entered her , my weapon as hard as any spear . |
| 11 | That 's none of my business so long as I do n't have to break any laws . |
| 12 | I 'm not saying anything because it 's none of my business as far as I 'm concerned |
| 13 | I went to my room as often as I could , and then after a week I went to the local Employment Exchange . |
| 14 | A winning attitude says , ‘ I do my job as well as I can , so please respect me . ’ |
| 15 | I saw some people from school and turned my head away so as to avoid them . |
| 16 | You know my name as well as I know yours ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Meaning , I can have my say so long as I do what you tell me ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I shall get you in and out of my palazzo as quickly as possible . ’ |
| 19 | Since I 'm technically retired I ca n't say that I 'll resign if you disagree with my request — and particularly that we should remove my reconstruction as quickly as is feasible , but I do feel it that strongly and I shall publish whatever you decide . ’ |
| 20 | And I think I should definitely be awarded my doctorate as soon as possible . |
| 21 | I have worked my beat as near as possible to 2 and a half miles an hour , and I do n't think there is much to complain about . |
| 22 | He put the magazine down and stared into space over my head , smiling wisely as I cleared my throat and flapped the hem of my dressing-gown as unobtrusively as I could . |
| 23 | ‘ That morning was the best of my life as far as Test cricket is concerned . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I was personally told he was not concerned about my past so long as I kept up a volume of business , ’ he said . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've learned my lesson as far as you are concerned . |
| 26 | I was on my way home again as usual . |
| 27 | I thus made my way as quietly as possible to a position from which I could execute such a march , and clutching my implements firmly about me , succeeded in propelling myself through the doorway and several paces down the corridor before a somewhat astonished Miss Kenton could recover her wits . |
| 28 | I wanted to go home and see my family as soon as possible . |
| 29 | She hit my face as hard as she could . |
| 30 | Robert , especially , knows this , for he knows the style of my speech as well as he knows the rhythm of my walk or the vocabulary of my gestures . |