Example sentences of "[v-ing] as [adv] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was only venturing as far as the bathroom , ’ she said with dignity . |
| 2 | This means the aquarium will not need cleaning as often as a less densely planted one . |
| 3 | Without going as far as The Unfortunates , the forms of all the novels mentioned introduce a comparable questioning of conventional patterns and expectations , often heightened by the novelists ' explicit commentary on their own activity . |
| 4 | Her husband , Jack , used to sell fruit and vegetables from a horse and cart , going as far as the top of Baldersdale to find custom He was well known to all the elder members of the Hauxwell family , including Hannah 's mother and father . |
| 5 | He wondered if Slater intended to walk the whole way with him , or whether he was only going as far as the Air Gallery , now only just across the street , where he sometimes went in the afternoons . |
| 6 | And you instead of taking the instead of going as far as the traffic lights to come to us , you take the exit before that which is |
| 7 | And are you now going to take that any further or are you going as far as the government wants you to go as this stage ? |
| 8 | THE good news yesterday was that the public sector borrowing requirement may not be growing as fast as the pessimists feared , and the need for tax increases in the Budget may not be as insistent as some analysts believe . |
| 9 | In Suleyman 's time he returned to the medrese stream , teaching as far as the Sahn and then becoming kadi successively in Aleppo , Damascus and Istanbul , in retirement from which last post he died in 963/1555–6 . |
| 10 | Several people mentioned that getting as far as the interview was the main problem . |
| 11 | The continuity of settlement pattern is more apparent in the upland North and West , where villages are less common , but here the colonization of the remoter areas , such as Cumbria , was still proceeding as late as the eighteenth century . |
| 12 | ‘ Queen of Pleasures , ’ he smiled , speaking as gently as a man can . |
| 13 | Directly across the channel was another , bigger bay , a long curving stretch of lovely white sand , with above it a sweep of green turf and bracken rising as far as the dark circle of the broch . |
| 14 | They headed south-east from the city , the Ferrari moving as fast as the wind , following the ‘ Via Tuscolana ’ signs for Frascati where , Nicolo insisted , they would find the best white wine in the world . |
| 15 | A Hanoverian stallion , with thick neck and muscular quarters , was moving as lightly as an Arab in a balanced , energetic , collected walk . |
| 16 | In the Midlands it is the tree one sees most often : and for a brief spell in early sum-mer it is the most beautiful of all the Midland trees , with its continuous miles of white may blossom glimmering as far as the eye can see . |
| 17 | Into this lethal mêlée flew the Lordly Phantasms , flourishing their laspistols and power stilettos , their gowns fluttering as phosphorescently as the wings of radioactive moths , their daemon-masks leering . |
| 18 | Wa looked at the man leaning back in his chair , his black-clad frame resting as nonchalantly as a Rimland puma on a jungle branch , and decided that Gorrin atop Small Gods temple would soon be joining those little deities in the multifold dimensions of Beyond . |
| 19 | The diary of a Middlesex parson , the Rev B.J. Armstrong , shows us what a devastating effect they were having as early as the 1830s . |
| 20 | Despite the failure of similar tactics on the Madrid front , it had been planned as another Moroccan-type , head-on attack along the first line of Republican defences , with the aim of breaking through at two points , advancing as far as the second line of defence and laying siege to Bilbao from there . |
| 21 | It was , of course , not the Springboks but Nick Farr-Jones 's Wallabies who were to emerge from the restored gold mine shining as brightly as a 24-carat nugget to inflict on South Africa their worst-ever defeat in international rugby . |
| 22 | Others had festering wounds that seemed never to heal , or had adapted themselves to a three-legged gait , running as fast as the other dogs but with one leg , withered or deformed from birth , tucked up under their bodies . |
| 23 | Always in the leading group , McMahon pushed to the front before the last where he was challenged by the favourite Over the Edge , but keeping his mount perfectly balanced and running as straight as a gun barrel , McMahon found something left in the ‘ Tank ’ and went on to score a snug success . |
| 24 | Elisabeth was torn between retreating at once , following the path back the way she had come , or continuing as far as the colonnade to look through the windows into the music room . |
| 25 | In time , the station would resolve itself , healing as invisibly as a wound in the deep of his brain . |
| 26 | I followed him down from 2,000 feet — put carb heat on — I was descending as quickly as the helicopter ; we managed to keep him visual . |
| 27 | Indeed it does , and it seems the job can not be left to the mere television reviewer either , for criticism soon leaked from the cultural pages to the overtly political ones , even reaching as far as the editorial sections of some newspapers . |
| 28 | Snow was falling as steadily as the apricot blossom in the first monsoon storm . |
| 29 | In a region of high rolling hills , the wall is like a gigantic roller-coaster extending as far as the eye can see to east and west ; Garvine wrote of the wall that it ‘ is built on such a scale that you would think it was the work of Gods rather than men ’ . |
| 30 | It is a superb sight with fields of dazzling Tulips , Narcissi and Hyacinths extending as far as the eye can see in a variegated patchwork of brilliant regimented blocks . |