Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [adv] [adv] [conj] possible " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm sixty next year but I 'd like to carry on for as long as possible . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ This is the life I 've been trained for and I want to carry on for as long as possible . |
| 3 | Might as well get the whole thing over with as fast as possible . |
| 4 | I want this over with as quickly as possible . |
| 5 | ‘ What I wish , ’ she said , ‘ is to get this visit to wherever we 're going over with as quickly as possible . ’ |
| 6 | They will put the moment off for as long as possible or refuse to acknowledge that it is coming along and then protest that they were not told . |
| 7 | And it is the same attitude of world-weariness and sophistication that socializes each generation of students and new teachers into believing that their own blends of ill-formed idealism , intermittent enthusiasm and nagging doubt about the true value of what they are doing are merely the embarrassing stigmata of the beginner , to be covered up as much as possible , and grown out of as soon as possible . |
| 8 | She withdrew her finger when told but put it back in as soon as possible . |