Example sentences of "[prep] it as [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | That put the tin lid on it as far as Patrick Kelly was concerned . |
| 32 | I wanted desperately to be with him , to comfort him , but somehow I made myself keep walking , and when a coach passed , I arranged to travel on it as far as my money would pay for . |
| 33 | I knew I would be alone all my life so I started preparing for it as soon as possible . |
| 34 | There had not been time yet to find out exactly how brilliant the child was , but Miss Honey had learned enough to realise that something had to be done about it as soon as possible . |
| 35 | But everyone advised me to forget about it as soon as possible . |
| 36 | I believe that it is valuable for children to learn to use this experience , and to become able , at will , to look at language rather than through it , to think about it as well as with it . |
| 37 | If others point out to me that I always shirk opportunities to get something which I earnestly insist that I desire more than anything else in the world , I shall be persuaded to relinquish it as an end only if on reflection I am forced to admit to myself that I do not feel about it as strongly as I supposed . |
| 38 | We now have the most difficult phase of the campaign coming up and I 'm confident that Wilko' will steer us through it as successfully as possible ! |
| 39 | ‘ And after that , ’ Woolley said , ‘ you will come back here and stop the German air force from examining the hole which their artillery has just blown in the British Line , a hole about the size of Lancashire , and that will be the biggest waste of time of all , because the German Army found that hole an hour ago , and is now galloping through it as fast as its little legs will carry it , heading in the direction of … ’ he snipped the final toe-nail and straightened his leg to study the fault' … us . ’ |
| 40 | Apart from moving through it as fast as possible on a pair of skis , ’ he added with an unexpected flash of humour . |
| 41 | He was to set out with the three French patrols , drive the hundred-odd miles to the Gabes Gap and pass through it as quickly as possible to create confusion in the enemy rear areas . |
| 42 | In training though you can still have the same problem erm you know perhaps towards the end of the session you 've probably seen it as and I , I 'm guilty of it myself cos we 're trying to rap on through it as quickly as possible so we get in ya way by six o'clock or that so we break all the rules late in the day |
| 43 | If it is to save us , we must look at it as clearly as we should learn to look at death . |
| 44 | Back with his own cast , he was determined to keep them at it as long as possible , fulfilling his own need for manic activity . |