Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kerly harumphed , and moved off again , walking just as fast as before . |
| 2 | These were walking just as fast as the others — yet , for some reason , they hardly seemed to get any closer to the professor ! |
| 3 | They would have to avoid the Warden 's forces , in these circumstances , so would require to plan their approaches carefully , keeping away as far as possible from Teviotdale and Tweeddale . |
| 4 | ‘ But , Noreen — ’ But Noreen was already walking away as fast as she could in the direction of the apartment house . |
| 5 | ‘ However , I can promise our customers that we will be putting everything into opening up as soon as possible . |
| 6 | The others got out of the rope , and Slingsby , climbing up as far as possible , stood on a little step just below , with his hands on the platform . |
| 7 | Know , thinking about people walking back as far as t' shopping my point . |
| 8 | I lower myself into the chair , keeping as far away as possible . |
| 9 | They passed the beast cautiously , keeping as far away as possible , Allen and Marian with their bows ready , and Hugh with his sword in his good hand . |
| 10 | PORTADOWN families holidaying as far away as Crete have written home condemning the IRA for destroying their town , it was revealed today . |
| 11 | But yes , the trend is the same as the national one , there is an increase in arson , possibly that 's also influenced by the fact that we 're better at detecting arson and we 're becoming increasingly more so as the years go by , and calls that would have been recorded as unknown in the past , would now be recorded as this . |
| 12 | New research by the US Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) has shown ozone depletion to be occurring twice as fast as previously thought . |
| 13 | Sam 's porridge bowl was fuller than usual — Ma Bombie 's hand being even more unsteady than normal — so he was walking very slowly so as not to spill any . |
| 14 | They were sheep who had decided that this was no time to waste energy panicking when it could be used for galloping away as fast as possible . |
| 15 | Although at poolside their disabilities were obvious , in the water they were simply swimmers , competing just as keenly as more able-bodied athletes . |
| 16 | Clutching Elaine 's hand , as much to comfort himself as to protect her , he retreated by stepping backwards as unobtrusively as he could . |
| 17 | Whenever she said to him , ‘ But , Norman — do n't you want to sit in it , like other people ? ’ he would reply , rather grandly , ‘ A garden , my dear , is a place for passing through as quickly as possible on the way to the pub . ’ |
| 18 | He took up a cloth by the side of the cash register and started to move it slowly over the surface , looking up just once as I left the shop , saying , ‘ Goodbye , then . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ No officers coughin' up as far as I can see , ’ said Tommy . |
| 20 | It took nearly a year of searching as far afield as Slough to find suitable premises for the nursery . |
| 21 | Realistically , it is hard enough to speculate on how multimedia will have developed in a few years time without looking as far ahead as the beginning of the next century . |
| 22 | The library was large and , rather than hunt through the endless rows of volumes dating as far back as 1530 , she had sought the help of the librarian . |
| 23 | An oriental author , writing as long ago as 1708 , records that one of the cat 's unique features is that ‘ it perishes in a place quite out of human sight , as if it wills not to let man see its dying look , which is unusually ugly ’ . |
| 24 | A man of independent means , Barton travelled widely , visiting France and Italy and possibly venturing as far afield as Poland and Russia , and pursued interests in economics and botany . |
| 25 | Fortunately , telecommunication technology is developing almost as fast as silicon chip technology and is expected to be able to meet the demands that will be made on it by computers and microelectronics over the next few years . |
| 26 | They would of course let me know what was going on as soon as possible . |
| 27 | After a shamingly large second supper of chicken , sweetcorn and cake , a vast vodka and tonic and half a bottle of red wine , at one o'clock in the morning the chatter suddenly turned into the Frogsmore Stream running under Snow Cottage and she fell asleep until six to find the chatter going on as loud as ever . |
| 28 | We must remember , however , that just as all the alpine chains of Europe are now known to have been still pushing forward over the molasse in late Miocene times , so in places such as the Apennines , movements were still going on as late as Quaternary times . |
| 29 | By this time , the southern part of the north Atlantic was presumably wide open , and I strongly suspect a crack going up as far as east Greenland . |
| 30 | UNCED 's Secretary-General , Maurice Strong , has acknowledged that there will be " serious failures " at the summit , and added , in an oblique reference to the US , that " some countries are not going nearly as far as they could " . |