Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although his voice failed to carry as far as those of the Academicians ' , there was no possibility of failing to recognize the message . |
| 2 | Meanwhile government forces had consolidated their positions deep inside UNITA territory near Mavinga , a strategic UNITA base , which the government claimed to have captured in February following heavy fighting , and sought to penetrate as far as the rebel headquarters at Jamba . |
| 3 | Sometimes I tried to go as fast as I could , but it was easy to let the sail out and slow down if I felt I was getting out of control . |
| 4 | Karl stopped laughing as suddenly as he had begun , his face grave and concerned and kindly . |
| 5 | He stopped trembling as quickly as he had begun a moment before and seemed to withdraw down the dark passage to the daydream he was locked in when they first arrived . |
| 6 | Our own days in the palm-frond houses seemed to dwindle as quickly as sand through a sieve . |
| 7 | By ten I 'd crawled as far as the door . |
| 8 | Constance came hurrying as fast as she could with her stick . |
| 9 | I 'd got as far as the top step on that flight when the phone went again . |
| 10 | A few minutes later , when she 'd got as far as wrapping herself in her host 's dressing-gown , Penry Vaughan knocked loudly on the door . |
| 11 | She seemed to vanish as quickly as she had appeared , leaving Ianthe to be pushed forward into the train , where she stood in a daze until she found herself sitting down in a seat offered to her by a small boy . |
| 12 | He might have the advantage of size and strength , but thanks to the martial arts classes she 'd taken as regularly as she could over the past few years , she had a few tricks of her own up her sleeve . |
| 13 | Charles turned to walk as quickly as he could down the steps and away without actually running , when a young woman appeared beside the butler . |
| 14 | The absence of a major socialist bloc in North America left an unoccupied anti-pluralist niche into which elite theory began to fit as early as the 1930s . |
| 15 | Poor Nutmeg was very scared , he began to run as fast as he could . |
| 16 | A protesting Maltote was roused and ordered to ride as fast as he could to the royal camp outside Bedford . |
| 17 | In November 1990 , King Hussein of Jordan expressed concern that the burning of Kuwait 's oil ( an action the Iraqi leader , Saddam Hussein , threatened to take as early as September 1990 if the United States and its allies attempted to oust him ) would accelerate global warming significantly . |
| 18 | The alarm bells began ringing as early as the seventh minute when Albert Craig struck the post from a narrow angle after capitalising on a moment 's hesitation in the home defence . |
| 19 | Out of five tenders Arthur Butler was selected and asked to build as soon as possible . |
| 20 | I decided to walk as far as Bellanoch where a friend would pick me up for that weakening hospitality again - a dear old Sister Brush who shames me with her eighty-year-old energy , integrity and artistic confidence . |
| 21 | Living in San'a , I was initially engrossed in the visual aspects of the architecture , but as I became involved with the Yemeni families , I started to record as accurately as possible all aspects of the traditional San'a culture that was rapidly being swallowed up by Western influence . |
| 22 | He decided to start as softly as possible . |
| 23 | He started to travel as slowly as possible in the hope that the King would change his mind . |
| 24 | He rode away complacently , sure of his countrymen , whose deaths he had been so busy arranging , and meant to buy as cheaply as possible . |
| 25 | He heard a cry from the top + the sound of something falling , but he kept running as fast as he could , meowing loudly . |
| 26 | ‘ A-actually , ’ she managed to stammer as haughtily as she could , ‘ I 'm not playing at all , but you wo n't believe me . ’ |
| 27 | And Novotna admitted : ‘ I just kept playing as hard as I could . |
| 28 | It 's taken longer than I thought to get as far as this . |
| 29 | Severus managed to get as far as the Montrose region and perhaps briefly beyond that : tantalizingly , in 1869 labourers on the Duke of Sutherland 's railway extension to Helmsdale and ultimately to Thurso in distant Caithness unearthed a collection of Roman bronze coins in a region never held and supposedly never reached by imperial forces . |
| 30 | Edgar managed to get as far as the door . |