Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believe there are several thousand States in Ireland now and I see the sense of locality that has always dominated here as basically a time-serving National identity . |
| 2 | Those that do survive often do poorly as brain tissue is often damaged . |
| 3 | Specialix also admits the move to Unix System Labs ' Unix SVR4 has n't gone smoothly as planned , saying that it unexpectedly had to rewrite several device drivers for OEM versions . |
| 4 | If you are too stupid to know when to draw the line physically then you will be too stupid to know when to stop emotionally as well . |
| 5 | Assuming she has lived in the house for her whole period of ownership and has never nominated elsewhere as main residence there is no question of a CGT liability when she sells . |
| 6 | It is being attacked daily by that real group of parasites , the Tory Party , the Tories will no doubt bring in workfare just as soon as they 've softened up the wider public with their slavish friends in the media . |
| 7 | But the events described in them — the loss of some ornament , or the visit of some old family friend — quite often turned out to happen just as the little boy had predicted . |
| 8 | KEVIN Keegan came out fighting yesterday as D-Day loomed for stricken Newcastle . |
| 9 | Vaughan 's dinner cooking usually begins just as her two sons return from school in the afternoon . |
| 10 | New content and emphasis is to be found in all subjects of the syllabus but radical changes ( most of them very typical of other syllabuses of the time ) included : earlier and more intensive teaching of English , the teaching of more Mathematics earlier ( and less computational arithmetic ) , the localisation of History and Civics syllabuses ( but with world affairs added in the upper classes ) , the introduction of a Science syllabus , with considerable time weighing , based on an ‘ experimental approach ’ and intended to integrate contents and approaches originally taught separately as Nature Study , Rural Science , General Science , Health Education and Gardening , and a revised , expanded , and considerably more africanised Music syllabus . |
| 11 | Remember not to lean forwards as you do the exercise . |
| 12 | They would be cooked into a greasy stew with vegetables and served up looking exactly as they did when they were raw : pale and nauseatingly realistic , with the toes and claws intact . |
| 13 | Joseph hung back walking slowly as the others moved on again , and his mother , noticing his discomfited expression , waited for him at the side of the track . |
| 14 | Then she and the president can set about hacking away as vigorously at the wasteful government machine as they have at the sheltered private sector . |
| 15 | At the other extreme , the parties may have expressly agreed only as to which goods were being sold and how much the price was . |
| 16 | The realisation that the lift was carrying them upwards instead of down made her heart jump horribly , and it went on fluttering febrilely as she stole a look at Luke , standing so still and confident at her side , and knowing , damn him , that she could n't bring herself to protest or ask questions in front of an audience . |
| 17 | People lied about their intentions up to the moment of voting and went on lying even as they left the polling stations , saying they had voted for Labour when they had voted Tory , ’ he says . |
| 18 | Charlton and Grilly went on to play together as Palace 's full-backs for four seasons , and it was no coincidence that in two of them Palace made serious , if unavailing , attempts to restore 2nd Division status to Selhurst Park , finishing as runners-up in both 1928–29 and 1930–31 . |
| 19 | So every day for two months a group of cleaners managed by contracts manager Pat Kemp , went in to clean completely as and when the premises became available . |
| 20 | Instantly , she thought of Ferdinando and whether he would go off to fight now as he had fought then . |
| 21 | Rokkakus turning , dropping then soaring vertically as the line is tugged vigorously . |
| 22 | She kept maniacally busy so as not to feel sorrow and set herself the goal of working so hard that at night she fell into bed exhausted . |
| 23 | He became quite carried away as with dexterous strokes he carved a particularly exquisite right breast and set to work on the delicate fluting of the ribs . |
| 24 | Four Hearts , on the other hand , was not a success although the play did not go quite as you might think . |
| 25 | The opening games did not go quite as I expected in that I was surprised to see Wales beat Ireland . |
| 26 | By hybridizing different varieties of peas , Mendel had shown that some characters are inherited as units on an ‘ all or nothing ’ basis — they did not blend together as Darwin and almost everyone else assumed . |
| 27 | This did not last long as the scale did not allow sufficient detail to be recorded and only some parts of Aberdeenshire were mapped in this manner . |
| 28 | The two halves of the heart did not ease apart as I 'd fancifully imagined , but clung desperately round one another like drowning lovers . |
| 29 | So absorbed was she in the effort of preparing herself mentally for what lay ahead that she did not glance upstream as she drove across Cookham Bridge and wonder why there were no party-goers gathered round a marquee on the lawn of Swans ' Meadow , why indeed there was no marquee pitched on the lawn at all . |
| 30 | Later on you got what we call the fog cheese , from the second crop of grass in the autumn after haymaking , which was very rich but did not rise quite as well . |