Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [adv] [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 | Our own days in the palm-frond houses seemed to dwindle as quickly as sand through a sieve . |
| 5 | It was applied by Baulig to Brittany ( 1935 ) and seemed to work quite well as the basic map used was the old French 1:80 000 hachured map which had plenty of spot heights often on flattish summits or spurs . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I learnt to look ahead so as not to run out of stores . |
| 8 | My own swollen hand seemed to hurt even more as I watched him . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Poor Nutmeg was very scared , he began to run as fast as he could . |
| 12 | A protesting Maltote was roused and ordered to ride as fast as he could to the royal camp outside Bedford . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Out of five tenders Arthur Butler was selected and asked to build as soon as possible . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Clearly the Government decided to tread carefully so as not to offend the judiciary by appearing to interfere directly with their discretionary powers to sentence as they think appropriate . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He decided to start as softly as possible . |
| 19 | He started to travel as slowly as possible in the hope that the King would change his mind . |
| 20 | He rode away complacently , sure of his countrymen , whose deaths he had been so busy arranging , and meant to buy as cheaply as possible . |
| 21 | ‘ A-actually , ’ she managed to stammer as haughtily as she could , ‘ I 'm not playing at all , but you wo n't believe me . ’ |
| 22 | It 's taken longer than I thought to get as far as this . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Edgar managed to get as far as the door . |
| 25 | Other acts sought to prohibit as far as possible corrupt practices and limited the amount of money a candidate could spend on election expenses . |
| 26 | EUROTUNNEL 'S share price continued to fall sharply yesterday as Andre Benard , the consortium 's French co-chairman , conceded that the £2bn cost overrun on the Channel tunnel was causing ‘ serious problems ’ . |
| 27 | The barge-owners had to go as far as the brewery wharf across Maurice 's foredeck and over a series of gangplanks which connected them with their own boats . |
| 28 | One line of thought was that the government wished to dampen as far as possible the spirits of anti-apartheid demonstrators who are planning marches all over the country today in celebration of the releases , which have been proclaimed ‘ a great victory for the people ’ . |
| 29 | She had no wish to intrude on Helen 's friendship with her neighbour and , unless Edward had something to tell of interest to veterinary work , she resolved to leave as soon as possible . |
| 30 | He had been a scholarship boy himself , and he wished to ensure as far as possible that families without financial resources should be enabled to send their boys to the School . |