Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I need to speak to Governor Nicholson about them as soon as possible , do you understand ? ’ |
| 2 | I had the feeling that Signe had n't dismissed Harvey 's words of caution about me as completely as she professed and I carefully refrained from asking about the parcel . |
| 3 | I feel confident because I know I came out to help : directly , by leading them as well as an officer can ; indirectly , by watching their sufferings so that I may plead for them as well as I can . |
| 4 | Ataturk was able to control the mullahs and to find a place for them as well as for merchants and intellectuals in the new Turkey . |
| 5 | Nithard wrote of what he and his companions had suffered ; and he wrote for them as well as for Charles — significant evidence for Charles 's own constituency . |
| 6 | But when the great general of the Civil War , Oliver Cromwell , lost his temper with the Rump Parliament for trying to monopolize power , and made himself supreme instead , he regretted this war between Protestant countries and set out to make peace between them as soon as possible . |
| 7 | Cautiously , the Doctor approached the central circle of pillars , slipping between them as quietly as possible , despite the fact that there was no one around . |
| 8 | • Several tasks are required to be performed simultaneously and the subject is required to distribute his time between them as efficiently as possible . |
| 9 | ‘ It was a family company and I could n't see any future for me as far as equity was concerned , ’ Goodwin says . |
| 10 | AB : Well it was always fairly straightforward for me as far as the repertoire goes . |
| 11 | When Matthew and I adopted you three years ago , we decided to look after you as well as we could . |
| 12 | I lay on my back and watched it for a second , then got up and ran after her as fast as I could , again just because I knew I could n't catch her . |
| 13 | Since he looked after her as carefully as he did the rest , the princess too was happy to share their life in the forest . |
| 14 | I ran after him as fast as I could . |
| 15 | Then she said : ‘ So you see , I 'm making myself as unpleasant as I can — and I assure you I can ! — to make them want to get rid of me as soon as possible . ’ |
| 16 | The ghost of my son pursued me yet , his translucent image being reflected from the trunk of every tree , so that it sometimes appeared ahead of me as well as on every side . |
| 17 | Then the other one , whom your sister thinks must be the owner of the farm , apologized for a ‘ case of mistaken identity ’ , as he called it , and got rid of me as quickly as possible . |
| 18 | Therefore he keeps walking , ‘ thinking of nothing so long as he could refrain from thinking ’ . |
| 19 | We can not ignore , therefore , the possibility of our oil tax revenues running out or reducing , and it is important to find ways of becoming independent of them as soon as possible . |
| 20 | So , er , I 'm sure we all know them , how to stop them coming , or get rid of them as soon as possible . |
| 21 | There have been improvements here and there in the East European countries , but generally speaking they distribute sulphur dioxide to their own fields and cities and to the countries downwind of them as liberally as they ever did . |
| 22 | Think about the shape of the flowers that you are pressing and try to place the blotting paper on top of them as carefully as possible to ensure that they will lie flat under the weights , because once they are permanently pressed you can not start again . |
| 23 | To the uninitiated it might seem that the shunters are engaged in a game of hide-and-seek with the trucks ; they appear to scatter them all over the yard , as if their object were to separate many of them as completely as possible . |
| 24 | I began several diaries , carrying on the entries in some of them as far as February . |
| 25 | And this was one of them as far as the demon was concerned ) . |
| 26 | All of them as far as paragraph B is concerned it deals with the reduction in local government responsibilities and the growth of non-elected bodies . |
| 27 | Now this I dependably find a real throw-up number but there 's never anything too horrendous because , as my colleagues are always saying , we 're at the darning-and-patching level of the biomedical business : the serious cases we bring in direct , and at speed , from the city hospitals , and we in our turn get rid of them as quickly as we can . |
| 28 | In some cases it can be difficult or even impossible to find texts again ( for example if the text is a lecture , or a television programme ) , but you should still keep details of them as fully as possible , so that your reader knows exactly where ideas or words come from . |
| 29 | The trick does not work , but at least it leads to the hiding of Colas in Lise 's bedroom and the awful discovery of the two of them together just as Alain has received the key and goes to claim his bride . |
| 30 | On the day he left , Gould wrote to Captain Washington at the Royal Geographical Society , announcing proudly , ‘ I shall have many novelties to add to science as well as to communicate a great deal respecting their habits since I have already obtained the nests and eggs of 60 species not one of which as far as I am aware have been described . ’ |