Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Faye needs someone as soon as possible now , so perhaps I 'd better square it with the hospital for you . |
2 | Sexism rarely manifests itself so grotesquely as in the cohabitation rule , and hostility to it among feminists is virtually unanimous . |
3 | I ca n't remember now , but I still love it and continue to be amazed every time I see it in a catalogue for it seeds itself as freely as any common plantain . |
4 | It is important that this potentially very valuable approach safeguards itself so far as possible against misinterpretation : in particular , that the content of religious belief does not really matter , that knowledge of religious tradition is unimportant , and that any opinions and beliefs are acceptable so long as they are sincerely held . |
5 | From the moment that Grimes renounces salvation ( in everything but his actual words ) the theme pursues him as relentlessly as ever the Furies pursued Orestes . |
6 | Orphaned at a very early age , he is brought up ‘ by hand ’ by his shrewish sister , Mrs Joe , the wife of the village blacksmith , Joe Gargery , who loves him and protects him as far as possible from his sister 's tyranny . |
7 | The countryman takes a great interest in the weather : he has to because his living is bound up with it ; and he observes it as closely as a scientist watching a long and intricate experiment . |
8 | He throws it as hard as he can . |
9 | I must be precise here : the woman forgot how to hate him — the child feels it as keenly as ever . |
10 | Gollum explains them as materialistically as possible . |
11 | ‘ And perhaps I should remind you that the contract you 've just cited binds you as securely as it does us , unless you 're willing to face interminable legal hassles in an effort to extricate yourself . ’ |
12 | I know you never considered Madeleine was the right girl for me and no one in this whole world knows me as well as you do , so I ca n't ignore your opinion , even though I 'd like to . |
13 | When the person throws the ball , the batter hits it as far as possible and then sets off to run round the obstacle placed at right angles . |
14 | It was a part of becoming adult that I grew aware of the great invisible universe of personality which controls us as surely as do physical laws . |