Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I want you to get back to the docks and get everybody out as fast as you can . |
| 32 | When Muhammad Behbehanian , who was still in Morocco writing to all the Shah 's bankers , told him that he had heard Hassan wanted him out as quickly as possible to understand what had happened and why . |
| 33 | He 'd lay it on as gently as he could , and when she came round she would n't even remember how it had happened . |
| 34 | fill it in as neatly as possible ( do a rough copy first if you need to ) ; |
| 35 | She slammed it down as hard as she could on her opponent 's head . |
| 36 | Make sure that the pattern is straight and gently feed it down as far as it will go . |
| 37 | I want it over as quickly as possible . ’ |
| 38 | Alternatively , and conversely , it may be recognized that the end goal will not be achieved without a period of turbulence , and the pace of change may actually be accelerated , to get it over as quickly as possible . |
| 39 | If the rail was surface-mounted , simply lever it off as gently as you can using packing between lever and wall to protect the plaster . |
| 40 | We fixed it up as well as we could — which was n't well but it did give us both somewhere to live away from our parents , a first real taste of independence . |
| 41 | ‘ We 'll get flung off in a minute , but keep it up as long as possible . ’ |
| 42 | Once the umbilical cord has broken , the stump should be dusted or sprayed with antibiotic to dry it up as quickly as possible . |
| 43 | ‘ I want you to recall the label of said underpants , summon it up as fully as you possibly can . |
| 44 | I confess that I ladled it out as liberally as anybody . |
| 45 | Phoned Moira and told her I wanted it out as soon as possible ; if she would n't have it I would find someone who would . |
| 46 | So , as soon as Microsoft launches the operating system in mid-June , Informix will be straight there with its standard engine — it is ‘ in our customers interests to get it out as soon as possible ’ , he said . |
| 47 | Well erm you kept it out as long as possible but the weather spoilt it and the more you turned it , the bla blacker it came . |
| 48 | The one thing that seems to be doing now is to string it out as long as possible . |
| 49 | We do not appear to have received this year 's Statistics Form with details of your classes , and would be very grateful if you could send it back as soon as possible . |
| 50 | Then to push it back as violently as possible . |
| 51 | He slipped the matchbox under the netting and pushed it back as far as it would go . |
| 52 | Abel Goumba of the Front patriotique oubanguien — Parti du travail said that the " regime appears to be using stalling tactics to push it back as far as possible " and that the opposition would increase its activities to press for the conference to be convened earlier . |
| 53 | I seem to have taken it about as far as I can but can find no reason for the existence of the two command files in conventional memory as shown on the enclosed printout . |
| 54 | When darkness fell , the men drove off up the escarpment and made for the rendezvous , spreading themselves out as widely as possible . |
| 55 | We can move , of course , change direction , rattle about , but our movement is contained within a larger one that carries us along as inexorably as the wind and current … |
| 56 | Saddam 's War takes us up as far as the back-end of last year , but the core of the book is concerned with Saddam 's rise to power and his success in surviving the Iran-Iraq War and turning Iraq into the most heavily armed state in the Arab world . |