Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | While his father , Erlend , and his uncle , Paul , got on well together as joint earls of Orkney , their sons became rivals and enemies . |
| 2 | I was determined to carry on as normally as I could . ’ |
| 3 | Everyone got down very quickly as another shell exploded in the front garden of a cottage across the road . |
| 4 | The combination of the skin 's reaction and the effects of the digestive process results in the formation around the mite 's mouthparts of a tube — an eschar — surrounded by scar-tissue and pigmentation which goes down as far as the germination layer of the skin . |
| 5 | Bearing in mind that there 's something like forty companies chasing about eighteen percent of this market , do you honestly feel that your advertising revenue is going to go down as quickly as feel if you want to try and keep ahead of the the pack and keep up with the leaders . |
| 6 | But — there it was , and I began to go down as quickly as possible but with difficulty , for there was almost a metre between rungs . |
| 7 | After 0/30 , it is not wise to go down as far as 6C or 30C . |
| 8 | Tendrils of Virginia creeper crept down as far as the window-frame , and progressed on little circular suckers across the glass , at huge vegetable speed . |
| 9 | Let's have a look at this year 's price list er it says nineteen ninety three but I say it 's carried on as far as we know er there are n't any at the moment increases . |
| 10 | But it 's that figure there that I think we need to concentrate on as far as good bonuses are concerned . |
| 11 | Right , what we need to do is to hit it fairly hard and try to get it damped down as quickly as we possibly can . |
| 12 | The clubs will wriggle like eels to try to get round whatever restrictions are formulated so the punishments for transgressions of the regulations have to be just as clearly defined as the crimes , and in their application those punishments have to come down as decisively as a guillotine . |
| 13 | It was gon na take quite a while so erm we got the base five as quickly as possible so that we had as many hands on the job at once and er we had some formwork getting spare so we decided to make them useful and it 's a case of we 'd got six tanks to do and if we had a breakage we ca n't afford to stop the programme so as a er , a standby , just in case , we may never use these we might three or four uses out of but if we do have a breakage we want to be able to replace that straight away so have a spare set and you 've got nothing more to do and er get the walls , get the er , the back build operation right at the very end , ongoing , till you 've got the waterproofers in er get the waterproofing up to the five meter level and er get the back build in as quickly as possible . |
| 14 | ‘ However , I can promise our customers that we will be putting everything into opening up as soon as possible . |
| 15 | Rosa slipped out of their bed , and , imagining herself on water , trod as lightly as she could ; her feet left moist imprints on the coldness of the tiled floor which shrivelled up as quickly as she made them , until she too vanished through the door . |
| 16 | " I shall have to pull up as near as I can and let you out , said Woodie . |
| 17 | It was an uncomfortable affair , the Mayor used it as an occasion to condemn what he called the Turkish occupation of the North of the island and Douglas Hurd looked on clearly anxious that the whole thing be wound up as soon as possible . |
| 18 | Not feeling up to arguing the point , she left quietly , knowing everyone else in the Carlisle Flint team was wound up as tight as the drivers , waiting for the green light . |
| 19 | Even when the happy couple had left for their honeymoon , and the floor of the marquee had been cleared for the dance due to follow the reception , she still felt as though she was wound up as tightly as a spring . |
| 20 | The others got out of the rope , and Slingsby , climbing up as far as possible , stood on a little step just below , with his hands on the platform . |
| 21 | Know , thinking about people walking back as far as t' shopping my point . |
| 22 | Giles shouted back as loudly as he could . |
| 23 | He only hopes compensation will be sorted out as soon as possible . ’ |
| 24 | However , the problem with contact lenses and glasses is that your eyes can change over time , so it is imperative that problems are sorted out as soon as possible , as it will be difficult to establish whether the fault lies in your eyes or in the lenses . |
| 25 | I hope sa er , see of course it 's all question of getting it sorted out as quickly as you can . |
| 26 | It is necessary to find out as precisely as possible how often it was committed , whether or not there were regional variations in its frequency , and if there were changes over time . |
| 27 | If the parish council already had a report to submit , work could be carried out as soon as possible . |
| 28 | If the Policyholder was unaware of the faulty roof or did not have reasonable time in which to carry out repairs , then it is in order to deal with the claim for the damage to the internal decorations and/or contents but not the repairs to the roof , which the Policyholder should have carried out as soon as possible . |
| 29 | She says that it is vital that the work is carried out as soon as possible — there 's a danger to groundwater and the environment . |
| 30 | She says that it is vital that the work is carried out as soon as possible — there 's a danger to groundwater and the environment . |