Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Use them over as well as under watercolour . |
| 2 | Like someone pulling a blanket over his head and defying nature to do its worst , he sank and pushed himself down as far as he could go . |
| 3 | If we say , There 's somebody suspicious knocking about the flats , or , There 's a person on such a walk doing something we think 's a little bit er mysterious , then they 'll sen they 'll send somebody round as quickly as they can . |
| 4 | There is nothing in these two pieces that Eckard could not have written , but the sketchiness and even abruptness of their construction , the unenterprising harmony , and the lack of textural variety suggest that , if he did compose them , he dashed them off as fast as he could write for a pupil of little talent and not much discrimination . |
| 5 | The cloudburst switched itself off as abruptly as it had started , and the moon , peering momentarily out from an ink-black cloudscape , showed a coastal desert of pure white sand backed by low hills of chemical-green and violent reds , cactus everywhere and trucks parked on the dirt verge , most of them painted in livid crimson on white — Optimista , Primero de Mayo , La Virgen . |
| 6 | Fred I am worried with all that money you wo n't lose your head , there are a lot of clever dishonest people ( she means women , he said ) about these days , I brought you up as well as I could and if you do wrong it 's the same as if I did . |
| 7 | In the wild , an owl would find shelter if it was too windy , closing itself up as tightly as possible . |
| 8 | I will get a job and pay you back as soon as possible . |
| 9 | ‘ We 'd better get you back as soon as possible , ’ said Grimma . |
| 10 | As for his own talk — that , once begun , had , as usual , spun itself out as thoughtlessly as the wind : he believed it and quite often it was true or partly true — and if others believed it — a bargain had been struck . |
| 11 | What other company could pull itself round as radically as this in such a short time ? |
| 12 | Raise the eyebrows , forcing them up as far as you can as if trying to make them meet your hair line . |
| 13 | As they came out of service , they were driven to Mitcham Road depôt for Cohen 's men to break them up as quickly as possible . |
| 14 | Ireland 's top pair Eavan Higgins and Tracy Eakin , one down as early as the second hole , fought all the way against Nikki Buxton and Joanne Morley but were finally beaten by one hole . |
| 15 | Once I have decided to begin the game proper , I aim to get everyone out as soon as possible . |
| 16 | And in any case they wanted them back as soon as possible , and there would be the interest to pay . |
| 17 | Any interior door , even exterior doors we push them back as far as they possibly would go . |
| 18 | She was furious because I would n't do what she wanted and paid me back as spitefully as she knew how . |
| 19 | Organise your change of address cards ( complete with post code ) and start sending them out as soon as possible . |
| 20 | He looked carefully for antagonisms and smoothed them out as unobtrusively as possible . |
| 21 | ‘ I think there 's every reason to get them out as quickly as possible , ’ she persisted . |
| 22 | He says that when he got into the room the double bed was alight , he picked up the babies and got them out as quickly as he could . |
| 23 | ‘ If I shout that I 'm going down , haul me out as fast as you can , ’ he ordered . |
| 24 | I do n't know what view of these events my uncles took as we woke them early and followed them around as faithfully as any spaniel — maybe that was why they often nipped off to the pub in the evenings . |
| 25 | Grimma caught him and laid him down as gently as she could . |
| 26 | I followed her down as far as Wilshire Boulevard . |
| 27 | How ironic that she felt so alive in Piers 's company , the one man who could shrug her off as carelessly as he would shrug off a few flecks of sand from his T-shirt . |
| 28 | His uncle 's wealth , the chauffeur-driven limousine which brought him to and from school , cut him off as securely as did his own past . |
| 29 | And the buzzard , who had been waiting hidden in the branches of- an oak tree , swooped down , picked her up as carefully as if she were made of rose petals , and carried her back to the forest . |
| 30 | Gazzer wasted twenty minutes on the sea front waiting for a bus to take him up as far as the Leisure Centre . |