Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] as [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she had opened the car door and quieted the protests of the dogs , he put her parcels in , packing them together as neatly as any shop assistant . |
| 2 | Keeping the legs straight , squeeze them together as tightly as possible . |
| 3 | As will become clear , I do not see these questions as independent of each other , but I think it is helpful to try and consider them separately as well as in interaction . |
| 4 | Right , so you fix them just as quickly as you can fix them , but if that takes nine months it takes nine months , that 's one of the views you can take on it . |
| 5 | Use them over as well as under watercolour . |
| 6 | ‘ Take me away as quickly as you can , ’ he said . |
| 7 | I might not ask again until it was too late ; my native caution would betray me just as effectively as Arsenio and Osvaldo 's natural daring had subverted their judge-ment . |
| 8 | I had to give her a little reminder now and then , to stop her attempting to fly off into the wide blue yonder , by gently pulling the leash , but within two days she was coming to me just as willingly as she had on the straight creance . |
| 9 | But I need n't have worried , she came to me just as smoothly as before , and I flew her half a dozen times a session over the next four days . |
| 10 | She dressed me just as finely as them , and I was sent to a very expensive school . |
| 11 | There is nothing in these two pieces that Eckard could not have written , but the sketchiness and even abruptness of their construction , the unenterprising harmony , and the lack of textural variety suggest that , if he did compose them , he dashed them off as fast as he could write for a pupil of little talent and not much discrimination . |
| 12 | And if a few romantics mutter against the ‘ satanic mills ’ , despoliation of the countryside and pollution of the skies from the factory chimneys , the machine shunts them aside as surely as it repulses those Luddites who would shut down its engines if they only knew how . |
| 13 | ‘ No , your mother is right , you want to be with your friends on a day like this , and the best of luck to you , son , may it turn out for you just as well as you ever hoped . |
| 14 | Fred I am worried with all that money you wo n't lose your head , there are a lot of clever dishonest people ( she means women , he said ) about these days , I brought you up as well as I could and if you do wrong it 's the same as if I did . |
| 15 | I will get a job and pay you back as soon as possible . |
| 16 | ‘ We 'd better get you back as soon as possible , ’ said Grimma . |
| 17 | Raise the eyebrows , forcing them up as far as you can as if trying to make them meet your hair line . |
| 18 | As they came out of service , they were driven to Mitcham Road depôt for Cohen 's men to break them up as quickly as possible . |
| 19 | Although the landscape did not disappoint me nearly as severely as it did Johnson — subsequent farmers have grown many trees , and in the distance a great house still touches the sky — Monboddo may no longer be considered a classical Scottish fortified house . |
| 20 | And in any case they wanted them back as soon as possible , and there would be the interest to pay . |
| 21 | Any interior door , even exterior doors we push them back as far as they possibly would go . |
| 22 | She was furious because I would n't do what she wanted and paid me back as spitefully as she knew how . |
| 23 | Organise your change of address cards ( complete with post code ) and start sending them out as soon as possible . |
| 24 | He looked carefully for antagonisms and smoothed them out as unobtrusively as possible . |
| 25 | ‘ I think there 's every reason to get them out as quickly as possible , ’ she persisted . |
| 26 | He says that when he got into the room the double bed was alight , he picked up the babies and got them out as quickly as he could . |
| 27 | ‘ If I shout that I 'm going down , haul me out as fast as you can , ’ he ordered . |
| 28 | I do n't know what view of these events my uncles took as we woke them early and followed them around as faithfully as any spaniel — maybe that was why they often nipped off to the pub in the evenings . |
| 29 | Grimma caught him and laid him down as gently as she could . |
| 30 | Detective Inspector Anderson , who was in charge of the case , rushed his men to the house only to find the bird had flown , luckily for him only as far as Caversham . |