Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 31 | Lastly , I got as far as Mansfield last night , on my way to the Villa match . |
| 32 | I thought I was quite a reasonable driver , I got as far as running at the front in World Sports Car Championships erm finished on the podium several times in International Formula Three erm |
| 33 | Determined to fight , I shouted as loudly as I could . |
| 34 | I shouted as loudly as I could . |
| 35 | ‘ I trained as hard as I could and spend 2½ hours in the gym every day for six months , ’ said Smith , adding confidently , ‘ the winter has done its job . ’ |
| 36 | After the interview I mentioned as casually as I could that as a result of blocked sinuses I had lost my sense of smell ( with the exceptions of petrol , laundry and excrement ) for years , and could he think of any way of restoring it ? |
| 37 | I 'd better not as we are going on air on January 4 . ’ |
| 38 | ‘ I came as fast as I could . ’ |
| 39 | ‘ I came as quickly as I could . |
| 40 | In the evenings I studied as hard as I could , educating myself for Estella . |
| 41 | I commented as far as I am prepared to a moment ago . |
| 42 | I turned as far as I could without rocking or creaking , but I could n't see him . |
| 43 | I stand well back as the engine accelerates to cutting speed with a roar and a grind and a clatter of the blades . |
| 44 | My middle daughter , Lal , sweetly and most touchingly offered me one of her kidneys , an offer I declined as decorously as I could . |
| 45 | I know as well as you that I commissioned it . |
| 46 | And I walked as normally as I could into the playground , my private pain overcome for fear of discovery . |
| 47 | I walked as far as Cwmavon . |
| 48 | I walked as far as the castle , where the tram tracks jut out towards the far bank of the Daugava River to show where the bridge was torn away from under them . |
| 49 | I 'm taking steps to make sure that I last as long as possible . |
| 50 | I believe as strongly as I can say that we can reform the costliest and most wasteful system on the face of the earth without enacting new broad based taxes . |
| 51 | Well I think the consultation should take place , I suppose as soon as possible , because I think it 's going to create problems , er , to get the timescale through committee . |
| 52 | ‘ I putted as well as I have all year . ’ |
| 53 | Sometimes 1 would try to withhold my gift of words as the only way I could convey to him that he was withholding something I needed as badly as he needed my poetic ability . |
| 54 | I feel as badly as you do , but we do n't have time for this . |
| 55 | But once or twice in a while I would despair of producing the kind of thing that seemed likely to win approval from one whose standards were so high — impossibly high I felt so far as emulation on my part was concerned — and therefore I had moods in which I would feel unworthy of his attention . |
| 56 | As his huge foot rose over my head , I screamed as loudly as I could . |
| 57 | Well I suppose you see maybe what they 're trying to do I mean as far as I know I mean previously the Inland Revenue or the valuation office part of the Inland Revenue they actually used to run a scheme where |
| 58 | Even so , if you consider the pressures contingent on me that night , you may not think I delude myself unduly if I go so far as to suggest that I did perhaps display , in the face of everything , at least in some modest degree a ‘ dignity ’ worthy of someone like Mr Marshall — or come to that , my father . |
| 59 | " shall I go as fast as a whirlwind , as fast as thought , or as fast as a bird ? " |
| 60 | I went as far as the Galilee Gate , I turned and came back to my church . |