Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] as [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | So far from abandoning our folly , we started pushing it as far as it would go . |
| 8 | Guiltily she ran down the bouncing shallow steps , jarring them as hard as she could to off-balance the last man on his feet . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And also , he 's buying you as well as he 's buying the product . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Rincewind took a few steps forward , cupidity moving him as easily as if he were on little wheels . |
| 14 | Some time later , my headache had receded , my costume was discarded and my bunk was clasping me as tenderly as a mother 's arms . |
| 15 | Write the word clearly ( not in capital letters ) , and record your voice on the card saying it as naturally as possible . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They fully considered that there was merit , great merit , in running it as far as the Council was concerned . |
| 19 | Her father was a Presbyterian and when she confronted him with her decision , doing it as pugnaciously as usual in spite of her nerves , they had a furious and ridiculous quarrel : a man of fifty for some reason threatened by the vast religious longings of a fifteen-year-old . |
| 20 | First , because farmers have paid a lot of attention to improving the quality of their output and doing it as efficiently as possible , but have not taken time to tell the consumer and the general public about the efforts that have been made . |
| 21 | It is impossible to say to what extent Cézanne was aware of the fact that he was doing this , and in the process breaking the laws of scientific linear perspective , but it seems likely that it was part of a natural desire to emphasize the two-dimensional aspect of the canvas while continuing to explain the nature of objects and also insisting on their solidity by modelling them as fully as possible . |
| 22 | It 's a long way , it 's a long way to come and pop in see without you knowing him as well as I do he , he , Rudy 's so hard to move , I mean I 'd love , I 've said that |
| 23 | They were successful in taking it as far as the stairs , but when they tried to bring it down it slipped , nearly killing one of them . |
| 24 | The cost of developing new innovative products is extremely high ; companies must be able to defray the high front-end cost associated with translating inventions into commercially successful products by marketing them as widely as possible around the world . |
| 25 | Carrying her as easily as if she were made of feathers , Dane strode out towards the cottage . |
| 26 | Yet it was Everton who had the clearer second half opportunities after manager Howard Kendall had gambled on the pace of substitute Stuart Barlow by introducing him as early as the 50th minute . |
| 27 | Eventually an equilibrium was reached , and although the Troll flesh was still there Grom was digesting it as fast as it was regrowing . |
| 28 | The plot is complicated even by Agatha Christie standards , but putting it as simply as possible , Mr Smith said a report had never been produced , Mr Major interrupted to say it was in the Commons library , the Labour MP Tam Dalyell said what was there was not a report at all and Tristan Garel-Jones , the Euro Minister , said it sort of was . |
| 29 | Putting it as politely as he can , Mr Tyson said the whole affair ‘ encouraged ’ him to return to paid employment . |
| 30 | It was n't easy to make out his expression , but she was watching him as carefully as she could . |