Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] as [adv] as possible " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But — there it was , and I began to go down as quickly as possible but with difficulty , for there was almost a metre between rungs . |
| 2 | It was gon na take quite a while so erm we got the base five as quickly as possible so that we had as many hands on the job at once and er we had some formwork getting spare so we decided to make them useful and it 's a case of we 'd got six tanks to do and if we had a breakage we ca n't afford to stop the programme so as a er , a standby , just in case , we may never use these we might three or four uses out of but if we do have a breakage we want to be able to replace that straight away so have a spare set and you 've got nothing more to do and er get the walls , get the er , the back build operation right at the very end , ongoing , till you 've got the waterproofers in er get the waterproofing up to the five meter level and er get the back build in as quickly as possible . |
| 3 | ‘ However , I can promise our customers that we will be putting everything into opening up as soon as possible . |
| 4 | It was an uncomfortable affair , the Mayor used it as an occasion to condemn what he called the Turkish occupation of the North of the island and Douglas Hurd looked on clearly anxious that the whole thing be wound up as soon as possible . |
| 5 | The others got out of the rope , and Slingsby , climbing up as far as possible , stood on a little step just below , with his hands on the platform . |
| 6 | He only hopes compensation will be sorted out as soon as possible . ’ |
| 7 | However , the problem with contact lenses and glasses is that your eyes can change over time , so it is imperative that problems are sorted out as soon as possible , as it will be difficult to establish whether the fault lies in your eyes or in the lenses . |
| 8 | It is necessary to find out as precisely as possible how often it was committed , whether or not there were regional variations in its frequency , and if there were changes over time . |
| 9 | If the parish council already had a report to submit , work could be carried out as soon as possible . |
| 10 | If the Policyholder was unaware of the faulty roof or did not have reasonable time in which to carry out repairs , then it is in order to deal with the claim for the damage to the internal decorations and/or contents but not the repairs to the roof , which the Policyholder should have carried out as soon as possible . |
| 11 | She says that it is vital that the work is carried out as soon as possible — there 's a danger to groundwater and the environment . |
| 12 | She says that it is vital that the work is carried out as soon as possible — there 's a danger to groundwater and the environment . |
| 13 | She says that it is vital that the work is carried out as soon as possible — there 's a danger to groundwater and the environment . |
| 14 | She says that it is vital that the work is carried out as soon as possible — there 's a danger to groundwater and the environment . |
| 15 | But in order to achieve them you need to work out as precisely as possible what knowledge , concepts , skills and attitudes it is you want to develop . |
| 16 | Whenever she said to him , ‘ But , Norman — do n't you want to sit in it , like other people ? ’ he would reply , rather grandly , ‘ A garden , my dear , is a place for passing through as quickly as possible on the way to the pub . ’ |
| 17 | Then I drew the obvious conclusion and drove off as quickly as possible . ’ |
| 18 | Laura insisted that they be made up as near as possible in the original manner , from the cutting and colouring to the hand-sewn hems ; historical accuracy was to be paramount . |
| 19 | I thought that , if I 'd just come from the Sahara to here , I 'd head back as soon as possible , family duties or not . |
| 20 | ‘ The way we conceded goals at Coventry was very hard to take and I 'm looking for us to bounce back as quickly as possible . |
| 21 | They would of course let me know what was going on as soon as possible . |
| 22 | New pop had rapidly lost its mischief and settled down into a post-rock , post-teenage maturity , peddling naff fantasies of sophistication to a new generation of moneyed teeny-boppers whose only desire was to grow up as soon as possible . |
| 23 | ‘ We 've been asked by the Cancer Research Campaign to press on as fast as possible . ’ |
| 24 | This is obtainable from the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food and you must ask for a form to fill in as early as possible before the trip . |
| 25 | How has a Montpellier fishwife so mastered the art of composition that with her basket of fish for the bouillabaisse she is presenting a picture of such splendour that instead of going to look at the famous collection of paintings in the Musée Fabre you drive off as fast as possible to the coast to order a dish cooked with just such fish ? |
| 26 | Get up as fast as possible . |
| 27 | In this case I also wanted to get the cut edges of the neckband tidied up as soon as possible — remember this particular garment has been ferried to and fro to class and back . |
| 28 | We must get in , do the job and get out as quickly as POSSIBLE — leaving the place as the public have a right to find it . |
| 29 | Enrolled training would be phased out as fast as possible , with existing enrolled nurses given opportunities for conversion courses . |
| 30 | Since this is a controversial subject , on which the weight of scholarly opinion probably still supports Böhmer 's thesis that the documents already existed in their contaminated form in 1072 , and were used by Lanfranc in this form , it will perhaps help to clarify a complicated issue if I set out as bluntly as possible the reasons which seem to me to point decisively to 1120 as the date at which the forged additions were inserted into the texts . |