Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] [adv] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can move , of course , change direction , rattle about , but our movement is contained within a larger one that carries us along as inexorably as the wind and current … |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He left her at her door ; they had not gone down as far as the Green that day . |
| 4 | He told Sharpe his patrol was one of the many that daily scouted south to the French border and beyond ; this particular troop had been ordered to explore the villages south and east of Mons down as far as the Sambre , but not to encroach on Prussian territory . |
| 5 | Or only down as far as the moment when the Tiber is hurled back violently from the Etruscan shore ? |
| 6 | The combination of the skin 's reaction and the effects of the digestive process results in the formation around the mite 's mouthparts of a tube — an eschar — surrounded by scar-tissue and pigmentation which goes down as far as the germination layer of the skin . |
| 7 | Consequently , social groups down as far as the craftsmen and artisans developed " an appetite for mass-consumption " which survived the impact of faster population growth in the second half of the century . |
| 8 | Ireland 's top pair Eavan Higgins and Tracy Eakin , one down as early as the second hole , fought all the way against Nikki Buxton and Joanne Morley but were finally beaten by one hole . |
| 9 | Carcinoma , methadone , diabetes , depression , miscarriage and angina have poured down as unremittingly as the weather . |
| 10 | The burden of Russia 's social backwardness could not be thrown off as quickly as the threat of political counterrevolution had been by the end of the Civil War . |
| 11 | Below the lower level the number of pixels seen falls off very rapidly as the exposure is further reduced and , provided that the light intensity is not too high , a complete blackout occurs at some non-zero exposure , which will be called the blackout point . |
| 12 | This leads the staff into some contortions since logic would suggest that those who ‘ consume ’ more than their fair share of ‘ teacher time ’ should lose some in the future rather than take up still more as the monitoring of the punishment will entail . |
| 13 | The tendency for psychiatric disorders to show up more dramatically as the victims emerged from childhood helped to shift the focus of RCM counselling . |
| 14 | Gazzer wasted twenty minutes on the sea front waiting for a bus to take him up as far as the Leisure Centre . |
| 15 | He marked in the cabin , the quarry , and the track up as far as the cabin and back down through the dip to the fork . |
| 16 | It said , ‘ Bring these men up as far as the penthouse , no further . |
| 17 | if he had been chasing his flying tent up from the machair on the west of the island , he might have got up as far as the bogland near the lochan , but surely the light from my cottage would not be visible until he had followed the road downhill past the curve and almost into Otters ' Bay . |
| 18 | Saddam 's War takes us up as far as the back-end of last year , but the core of the book is concerned with Saddam 's rise to power and his success in surviving the Iran-Iraq War and turning Iraq into the most heavily armed state in the Arab world . |
| 19 | He got up as quickly as the tight fit of the table in the breakfast nook would allow . |
| 20 | The increase in the use of HP , though less marked , is important as HP is used for expensive purchases which are unlikely to crop up as often as the smaller ones financed by other types of credit . |
| 21 | Not feeling up to arguing the point , she left quietly , knowing everyone else in the Carlisle Flint team was wound up as tight as the drivers , waiting for the green light . |
| 22 | If it does not show up well enough as the screen dump replace with the following text : |
| 23 | They clattered on as far as the door ; under workbenches , into cracks , finding every obscure corner . |
| 24 | I know that when I see the books of a hitherto-collected writer being grouped in a catalogue in half-dozens and tens , instead of being offered singly , he is on the way out so far as the collecting world counts for anything . |
| 25 | As for his own talk — that , once begun , had , as usual , spun itself out as thoughtlessly as the wind : he believed it and quite often it was true or partly true — and if others believed it — a bargain had been struck . |
| 26 | It wo n't always work out as tidily as the Grid suggests ! |
| 27 | I stop playing the pipes before we leave the town as I appear to be missing out as far as the wine is concerned ! |
| 28 | The larger mire , Thorne Waste , approached by surmounting the incongruous dereliction of Moor Ends Colliery , stretches out as far as the eye can see , an astonishing 6,000 acres of untamed wetland . |
| 29 | The Roraima survivors described burning rum running down the streets and even into the sea , spreading out as far as the ship and causing small fires on her . |
| 30 | Last year , Derek sold some 1,500 from his farm — on Christmas Eve the queue stretched out as far as the main road . |