Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would seem sensible , therefore , to try and avoid using them as far as possible . |
| 2 | I put one foot on his shoulder and as I climbed up , making room for him , he raised himself and finally stood on the platform , helping me as far as possible . |
| 3 | I started drawing them as well as I could remember . |
| 4 | The gun roared deafeningly in the small room , its lethal discharge taking Angel Two in the ribcage , almost tearing him in half as it punched him back across the room . |
| 5 | The jeep was bouncing them about mercilessly as the Brigadier tried to get back to the village in time for the Captain and the Substitute to go back to Florence and eat . |
| 6 | His eyes , blue-green , were set widely apart on a face which was defining itself rapidly now as unforgettable . |
| 7 | He stood back to look down the line of her figure under the flimsy nightgown , his eyes caressing her as blatantly as if she had been naked . |
| 8 | Government legislation has sharply reduced the scope for this , but a number of councils are still interested in developing it as far as they can . |
| 9 | Believing still that the catastrophe had been caused by other people and the actions of other people , believing it as firmly as Kate believed that it had been caused by devils and Quentin that it was part of God 's mystery , Lavinia saw a spark in the gloom . |
| 10 | So far from abandoning our folly , we started pushing it as far as it would go . |
| 11 | ‘ God meeting us no longer as ‘ Thou ’ , but also disguised in the ‘ It ’ ; so in the last resort my question is how we are to find the ‘ Thou ’ in this ‘ It , ’ ( i.e. , fate ) . |
| 12 | In fact , I know that Mummy is looking forward to seeing you both just as soon as we get back to New York after the holiday . ’ |
| 13 | Guiltily she ran down the bouncing shallow steps , jarring them as hard as she could to off-balance the last man on his feet . |
| 14 | She exacerbates all his old anxieties and feelings of ambivalence towards ‘ mothers ’ , and because he can not cope , he defends himself by ignoring her as far as possible . |
| 15 | Through the brushed cotton of her sweater she could feel the pressure of his fingers , his touch scorching her as surely as if it had been on her bare skin . |
| 16 | To make this system more effective , animals emphasise their own scent by marking themselves as enthusiastically as their territories . |
| 17 | And also , he 's buying you as well as he 's buying the product . |
| 18 | older women , losing height a lot of pain from these fractures and it 's bones that are too porous so they 're not holding you up sufficiently as you get older . |
| 19 | The buzzard flew to the king 's palace , waited , perching in an oak tree , until the princess came out for her evening stroll , and then picked her up and carried her back to the forest , holding her as carefully as if she were made of rose petals . |
| 20 | Rincewind took a few steps forward , cupidity moving him as easily as if he were on little wheels . |
| 21 | Fill the chest with the chocolate coins , jewels and other treasure , piling it up so as to hide the chopstick in the corner . |
| 22 | ‘ I caught sight of him in the garden a moment ago — at least , I 'm pretty sure that brooding silhouette was his , looming in the shrubbery — and he was n't seducing anyone as far as I could see . ’ |
| 23 | Some time later , my headache had receded , my costume was discarded and my bunk was clasping me as tenderly as a mother 's arms . |
| 24 | Packing them up nice you know and chocking them tight so as they would n't shift you see , when the ship was rolling . |
| 25 | I enjoyed Richard who was a casual , almost brutal lover , his desire rising and spending itself as impatiently as mine , so that I did not have to suffer all that tedious , preliminary business of fondling and stroking , and I enjoyed my baby , which surprised me as I had not expected to . |
| 26 | She said I was cutting her out just as I 'd cut out other people in my life . |
| 27 | Write the word clearly ( not in capital letters ) , and record your voice on the card saying it as naturally as possible . |
| 28 | She also talked of naked greed , although it takes a curious kind of logic to see the deprived as greedy while company directors were awarding themselves large pay increases and the ‘ yuppies ’ in the city were making a great deal of money and spending it as conspicuously as possible . |
| 29 | However , an outside developer has expressed a serious interest in taking over the A-listed building and running it as both as a commercial mill and as a tourist attraction . |
| 30 | They fully considered that there was merit , great merit , in running it as far as the Council was concerned . |