Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] as [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | KEVIN KEEGAN 'S Geordie dream lived on yesterday as Newcastle won their ninth successive match and opened up a five-point lead at the top of the First Division . |
| 2 | The situation is saved : HAMLET , escorted , is marched in just as CLAUDIUS leaves . |
| 3 | No problem arose so far as NHS general practitioners were concerned , except a very powerful dispute about the level of the compensation of junior doctors ; but with the consultants it was another story . |
| 4 | The problem is that the invitation must have come rather late as Carolyn recalls : ‘ I walked in about six o'clock and Diana went : ‘ Quick , quick I 've got to meet Charles in twenty minutes . ’ |
| 5 | Rohmer had hold of the filing cabinet with Jimmy now , and Cardiff and Barbara moved quickly aside as Duvall reached the landing again , looking vacantly at the wrestling match with the cabinet . |
| 6 | Staff were mopping up today as Mr Alton held his usual surgery . |
| 7 | Other Coalition Liberals were disliked as warmly as Lloyd George , more for their present policies than for their past . |
| 8 | Despite the Geneva conference requirement that heavy weapons in the area be placed under UN supervision from Sept. 12 [ see above ] , renewed artillery attacks were reported as early as Sept. 14 in Sarajevo ( which was suffering severe water and electricity shortages as supply lines were interrupted ) . |
| 9 | He was practically laughing out loud as Ali reached critical mass . |
| 10 | John Boys in his Agriculture of the County of Kent 1794 , tells us that hop poles are the chief article which make woods valuable in this part of the country , there being not only local demand but the poles are carried as far as Maidstone and beyond , the planters preferring the poles grown on the hills to those of quicker growth . |
| 11 | Freight services ran until 1956 when all services ceased and the track was lifted as far as Bardney , although the Bardney-Lincoln portion remained . |
| 12 | The rumblings of death appear as early as Mark 3:6 after the stories of conflict with the religious authorities . |
| 13 | Snow may linger as late as mid-July . |
| 14 | There is an ancient variant in the Lucan version of the Lord 's Prayer , which is attested as early as Marcion in the second century and reads , ‘ May thy Holy Spirit come upon us and cleanse us , ’ instead of , ‘ Thy kingdom come . ’ |
| 15 | at the start of the second half the Hereford defence were caught out again as Scott put Wycombe back into the lead … |
| 16 | at the start of the second half the Hereford defence were caught out again as Scott put Wycombe back into the lead … |
| 17 | She had few friends to whom he objected as strongly as Bridget . |
| 18 | The implications of the new technological revolution go far beyond the silicon chip and its offspring , a message that may have penetrated as far as Kenneth Baker , Britain 's Minister for Information Technology . |
| 19 | Fortunately the coughing did n't really matter so far as Tinkerbell was concerned … the light is supposed to flash erratically … but the noise was rather off-putting . |
| 20 | To see Dustin Hoffman playing his own song on the piano , and looking up adoringly as Sting sang — well , you do n't get many moments like that . |
| 21 | The South India Railway was to be built as far as Ramaswaram and then connected to Ceylon by embankments and bridges . |
| 22 | It does not grow as fast as N. indicum , but the slender stalks produce more aerial leaves than the larger species . |
| 23 | Elf clippers sailed as far as Nippon and Cathay in search of goods . |
| 24 | We even sailed as far as Singapore . |
| 25 | If the buses came as far as Clifton Road it would be alright but any further away and people would have practically walked into town by the time they got to the nearest bus stop . ’ |
| 26 | I had to escape to the nearby wilderness of mountain and ice , to live out my days among chamois and eagle , which were being hunted as avidly as I. |
| 27 | On the same day , the mascaret , a river-bore which had been known to reach as far as Paris , was sweeping up the Seine . |
| 28 | An old favourite it is sometimes available , if not seen as often as Corydoras aneus and Corydoras paleatus . |
| 29 | I think this is clearly Miller 's main use for the character of Alfieri and he tries to make this more realistic by making Alfieri a lawyer though I do not think that this is done very well as Alfieri does not say anything which would justify him being a lawyer as all Eddie asks him are things he would have asked anyone though perhaps he asked him because he was a ‘ lawyer ’ and he respected this and knew he would get confidentiality . |
| 30 | As the Principal and Vice-chancellor of Napier University , Professor William A Turmeau said to the packed courtyard at Merchiston : ‘ Our institution opened right here as Napier College in 1964 and this is a really great day , for all of us . |