Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dung only penetrated as far as my upper thigh as we struck up the devastated hillside towards Meall a' Choire Leith . |
| 2 | Just what was the object of Barbara 's terror that viewers had only seen so far as a suction cup visible through a circular lens cowl ? |
| 3 | ‘ You know , Dorothy , you and I have one thing in common , ’ I remember saying to myself in a Dutch accent , ‘ we both only got as far as Harwich . ’ |
| 4 | I left early before the nuns were awake but I only got as far as Glasgow before I lost my way . ’ |
| 5 | He set off with rucksack and typewriter on a round-the-world trip , but only got as far as New Orleans , where , ever the hopeless romantic , he fell in love with a girl he met on a park bench . |
| 6 | ‘ What 's an 81 anyway , Paul — I though we 'd only got as far as 7b ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ We 'd only got as far as having a preliminary psyche dissection on Daine , ’ said Trefusis , ‘ but the Yggdrasil probes suggest he had a similar-although far more pronounced — set of personality deformities . |
| 8 | By next morning I 'd only got as far as realising that I had to talk you round . ’ |
| 9 | Even my wharped mind had only got as far as thinking . |
| 10 | REBEL sea captain Jack Lammiman set sail from Whitby on his greatest journey yet to America but only got as far as Scarborough . |
| 11 | The otter was the only strictly European species to make it into the overall ‘ Top 10 ’ , though badger , fox and hedgehog all got as far as the top 20 . |
| 12 | And there at Stamford , the beautiful town that Celia Fiennes and Defoe had admired so much remained almost exactly as they had seen it : but fossilised , moribund . |
| 13 | The difficult and often contradictory principles of this age-long argument were memorably expressed as early as Plato 's version of the Apology of Socrates and , with a different bearing , in his Republic . |
| 14 | The dominant response may at present be a favourable one , but this is only maintained so long as it implicitly accepted that functions are being successfully and rationally fulfilled . |
| 15 | This is the principle , though it is rarely done as nakedly as this . |
| 16 | Seeing that the independents would be slowly strangled so long as they relied exclusively upon the British circuits , he sought to establish connections to Hollywood . |
| 17 | This simplicity is , of course , in many respects the precise object of their management , because energy and nutrients are thereby channelled as directly as possible into human consumption with few sidechains and reduction in the losses involved in transferring energy between trophic levels . |
| 18 | The sparrow was n't too badly injured as far as I could tell , but it was obviously in a state of shock and could n't fly . |
| 19 | This plan is still very easily picked out today as one walks about the streets of Bury . |
| 20 | But when I saw it tonight I had just struggled as far as the road . |
| 21 | Negotiations were conducted in great secrecy when the manuscripts had already got as far as the freeport in Zurich and were being examined by two well backed dealers and by representatives of the Getty Museum . |
| 22 | Indeed , that term is no longer used as confidently as it once was . |
| 23 | The next day I was walking to work and I 'd just got as far as the hospital . |
| 24 | When the patient is fit enough these measures are best performed as frequently as every 12 minutes . |
| 25 | In March 1939 the CRREC claimed that ‘ Not only are Jewish children with no particular religious affiliation being placed in non Jewish homes and schools , utterly abandoned as far as their religious education is concerned , but even children who have been brought up in a religious atmosphere … are being callously placed in non Jewish schools and homes , where they suffer mental torture which , in at least one case , has brought the child to the verge of a nervous breakdown . ’ |
| 26 | But then there are other forms where this description does not suggest itself , or might not be admitted if it did : for example , ballroom dancing , which would be normally set down simply as ‘ a pleasurable social activity ’ ( and as such different from art ? ) . |
| 27 | According to the Commission , they should be progressively reduced as soon as possible — most likely from the start of 1991 . |
| 28 | True , at death our essence is finally overcome so far as its actualisation in space and time goes , but as long as we live we can go on realizing it in as full a form as circumstances allow . |
| 29 | Some providers have already gone as far as to produce prospectuses outlining their services . |
| 30 | ‘ I will have regard to how vigorous competition with the tunnel can be best assured as well as with how well the current competitive arrangments have operated , ’ he said . |