Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | They got only as far as the gate of Cell Block 6B . |
| 2 | Unfortunately these conditions also much reduced their rate of march and they got only as far as Polmood , for they were now in the high uplands of the infant Tweed and the going difficult at the best of times . |
| 3 | Tree-living kangaroos got only as far as New Guinea . |
| 4 | Murray and Ramsay rode together as far as the ford at Sunlaws , a wooded terrain of bluffs and hillocks , another Heiton peel-tower and the riverside mill . |
| 5 | Tendrils of Virginia creeper crept down as far as the window-frame , and progressed on little circular suckers across the glass , at huge vegetable speed . |
| 6 | The mortaring stopped just as suddenly as it had started , and it was quiet again . |
| 7 | Rosa slipped out of their bed , and , imagining herself on water , trod as lightly as she could ; her feet left moist imprints on the coldness of the tiled floor which shrivelled up as quickly as she made them , until she too vanished through the door . |
| 8 | Giles shouted back as loudly as he could . |
| 9 | Once round the corner , I moved forward as fast as I dared , though the going was very uneven . |
| 10 | ‘ Yeah , but I got away as fast as I could , ’ I said . |
| 11 | JR was suspicious by nature , and even more so when figures came together as easily as this . |
| 12 | Along Heygate Street last night there was n't a pedestrian in sight and cars drove through as fast as they could . |
| 13 | It came away as easily as a dead treebranch . |
| 14 | Curval took out the slide — it seemed not as carefully as before — and set it down on the table beside him . |
| 15 | Disk-resident MIBs will be able to be loaded and activated dynamically as well as unloaded and de-activated in order to free memory . |
| 16 | Disk-resident MIBs will be able to be loaded and activated dynamically as well as unloaded and de-activated in order to free memory . |
| 17 | Then I drew the obvious conclusion and drove off as quickly as possible . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ You attacked me , ’ she came back as coolly as she could . |
| 19 | I came back as fast as I could . " |
| 20 | To mimic this , we should have to speed up our stroboscope so that its flashes came twice as fast as the cycles of mains electricity , which are not noticed in a fluorescent strip light . |
| 21 | He simply said something about it 's being his land and Piers told him we had made a mistake and we all rode off as hard as we could because we were bursting with laughter — ’ |
| 22 | Soon they were all engaged in a noisy , boisterous game of hand-ball and , although Rachel joined in as enthusiastically as anyone , as the game progressed she was only really conscious of the mounting awareness between herself and David . |
| 23 | I heard screams of anguish , then the attack faded away as suddenly as it came . |
| 24 | In some ways , it is quite remarkable that Andrew turned out as well as he did . ’ |
| 25 | Jack crept up as far as he dared and then froze . |
| 26 | He got up as quickly as the tight fit of the table in the breakfast nook would allow . |
| 27 | They clattered on as far as the door ; under workbenches , into cracks , finding every obscure corner . |
| 28 | Brave Nicola Wilkinson , who refused to let go of 12-month-old Kristian Watson , said : ‘ I just hung on as tightly as I could . ’ |
| 29 | Once or twice they walked together as far as the river . |
| 30 | When I took a rolled-up sample of legal tender , printed by the Royal Mint , applied one end to my right nostril , placed a restraining finger upon my left nostril , rested the other end of the said note upon a mirror or any other shiny reflective surface , upon which was displayed a slender tranche or ‘ line ’ of exotic Colombian snuff , and breathed in as deeply as my lungs would allow , I was merely relaxing in a manner by no means untypical amongst overworked show-business operatives . |