Example sentences of "down as [adv] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jeane Russell brought his arm down as easily as a barmaid pulling a pint and dropped his hand into a burning ashtray . |
| 2 | The clubs will wriggle like eels to try to get round whatever restrictions are formulated so the punishments for transgressions of the regulations have to be just as clearly defined as the crimes , and in their application those punishments have to come down as decisively as a guillotine . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He left her at her door ; they had not gone down as far as the Green that day . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Or only down as far as the moment when the Tiber is hurled back violently from the Etruscan shore ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Carcinoma , methadone , diabetes , depression , miscarriage and angina have poured down as unremittingly as the weather . |