Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out of nerves and hero worship , he had three double Scotches before setting out and two more on the way , and then made himself self-destructively late by going into a greengrocer 's to buy some mint to chew so as to disperse the Scotch . |
| 2 | These performed just as required , with pious platitudes followed by prevaricating and tut-tutting in a most gratifying manner . |
| 3 | Despite the weather the blast-off went ahead as planned . |
| 4 | Our research suggests that , despite their great skills , it is a mistake to treat leaders such as those discussed here as possessing superhuman qualities . |
| 5 | It sought , as the Collor government had done , to open up the economy to foreign competition ( a new round of import tariff cuts scheduled for Oct. 1 went ahead as scheduled ) and would maintain existing privatization and deregulation programmes , although the involvement of Congress was now expected when the privatization of " strategic " companies was contemplated . |