Example sentences of "[vb infin] it as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 2 May 1839 Prince wrote to Gould in Australia warning him of Swainson 's impending visit : ‘ Mr. Yarrell has just called and requested me to tell you that Mr Swainson is going to Australia whether to collect or to settle is not known at present but he considered it of importance that you should know it as quickly as possible not that either he or I think it can in any way affect you as you have so good a start and his wonted and well known irregularity of publication will surely militate against him . ’ |
| 2 | They do n't analyze it as often as we do . |
| 3 | They were uncertain of her , she could feel it as surely as if they 'd appointed a spokesman to stand up and tell her so . |
| 4 | " They could do it as well as anybody else . |
| 5 | Very good I wonder if we could all do it as well as that ? |
| 6 | She could suck it as easily as the sticks of liquorice she used to adore as a girl . |
| 7 | While in Donna di Porto Pim , the writer , having sailed for many days and nights , has understood that ‘ the West has no end but continues to move as we move , and that we can follow it as far as we like and never reach it ’ ( Tabucchi 1983 : 13 ; the notion is echoed in the title of Tabucchi 's later novel , Il filo dell'orizzonte ( The horizon 's edge , ( 1986 ) , the Indian journey proceeds , not always straightforwardly , towards an end of a sort . |
| 8 | Well I have n't , it 's just that that people have said , you know , when the permissions available can we see it as soon as possible that was all , I just wondered if that document was available , |
| 9 | I ca n't see it as clearly as that — and perhaps it 's better not to see clearly — ’ |
| 10 | And it should be such , drawn so strongly , that your readers will remember it as vividly as anything in any other sort of crime fiction . |
| 11 | DO watch the screen while you type or give commands so that if something goes wrong you can correct it as soon as possible ( eg using Esc ape , U ndo ) |
| 12 | I 'd no idea he 'd take it as badly as this . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I have no future but my children and my wife will take it as far as it goes . |
| 14 | I want you to draw up the will exactly as I 've said , and let me have it as soon as possible . ’ |
| 15 | He must have it as soon as possible . ’ |
| 16 | People are talking about millions for the other two but clubs can forget it as far as Newcastle are concerned . ’ |
| 17 | Well you wan na split it as often as you can . |
| 18 | I 'd let him leave it as soon as possible |
| 19 | Souness ' other selection worry concerns calf strain victim Steve McManaman , and the Anfield chief will leave it as late as possible before deciding on his fitness . |
| 20 | Her curiosity had been whetted rather than slaked , because Zambia could only tell it as far as SHe understood , and hirs was not a scientific mind by any standard . |
| 21 | I can not paint it as beautifully as that , but it absorbs me so much that I let myself go , never thinking of a single rule … |
| 22 | Let's put it as simply as that . |
| 23 | ‘ Let me put it as delicately as I can . |
| 24 | However , what the hon. Gentleman says is a new one on me , if I may put it as basically as that . |
| 25 | He would thrust and persuade it as far as he could towards an ending . |
| 26 | Anyway , I 'm sure Fiver must find it as hard as you : he 's just as small . " |
| 27 | He could hit it as far as a 3-wood — and it won him the 1973 Open . |
| 28 | Significant quotes from players were passed on to the writers who heard , for example , that the Europeans had a " quiet " lunch after the opening foursomes , that Tony Jacklin did n't sleep too well one night , that Strange and Kite do n't hit it as far as some , that the Americans were " stunned " after the first day and that , mostly , players thought the crowds behaved reasonably well . |