Example sentences of "get [adv] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | While his father , Erlend , and his uncle , Paul , got on well together as joint earls of Orkney , their sons became rivals and enemies . |
| 2 | They got only as far as the gate of Cell Block 6B . |
| 3 | Unfortunately these conditions also much reduced their rate of march and they got only as far as Polmood , for they were now in the high uplands of the infant Tweed and the going difficult at the best of times . |
| 4 | Tree-living kangaroos got only as far as New Guinea . |
| 5 | Everyone got down very quickly as another shell exploded in the front garden of a cottage across the road . |
| 6 | ‘ Yeah , but I got away as fast as I could , ’ I said . |
| 7 | The other time I remember was when William the chromium platers in Street ye got bombed , with a high explosive bomb , but there was , there was no one hurt that I remember , and then the Halleys the tent people had an incendiary bombs and got burnt out , at the same night that they dropped some incendiary bombs on the bus depot in Road , they , they were a lot of work for the fire brigade , but comparatively speaking with , with Birmingham I think Walsall got off very lightly as regards the bombing , as there was no heavy industry around here . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In the meantime , a tourism study should be got underway as quickly as possible to ensure we maximise our influence over the WTB 's thinking . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't think things have got quite as far as that yet : ’ |
| 11 | He got up as quickly as the tight fit of the table in the breakfast nook would allow . |
| 12 | As with most young men who had succeeded in sowing casual wild oats , it was a case of get away as fast as you can before they start getting ideas . |
| 13 | I shall have another word to say about him , you 're not getting off as lightly as that Alan , er , but erm , I , I think that erm , what I should now do , is to invite him , as our Chairman over the year in question , to er , move the adoption of the Annual Report . |
| 14 | Get home as quickly as possible . |
| 15 | Their result is the first I look for every week , and I get home as often as I can . |
| 16 | Get up as fast as possible . |
| 17 | Tony and I get up as quickly as we can , brushing the snow free from clothes before putting them on so that it will not melt with the heat from our bodies . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In Harehills I belonged to the upper crust of the lower middle classes who were getting out as fast as they could . |
| 20 | ‘ Of course , it 's been an awful , terrible accident , but we 've now got to concentrate on making sure that Liz and Owen get well as quickly as possible . |
| 21 | I 'm getting there as fast as I can . |
| 22 | Young people with backpacks and habitual travellers may know what it means to go on a journey , but for most the romance of escape begins with deciding where to go on holiday and then getting there as quickly as possible . |
| 23 | I think some stations might do that , but they only do it if , if it 's , if it 's not going to be detrimental to the turn out , in other words they , they have a system , erm for instance they have a duty crew over the weekend , so that at least some can take their families to the seaside if they wanted to , so six will remain around the house er er but they do have some system , but I think the majority of fire stations , there are twenty seven in Suffolk like that , who work on the system of getting there as quickly as they can , and that is the best competition to get there , to get the ride . |
| 24 | I got back as quickly as I could . |
| 25 | I left the aircraft in order to go for de-briefing but I got as far only as the jetty when an attack was made on the Sunderland by three Me109 aircraft . |
| 26 | I finished my drink , quickly said goodbye to the other actors and got out as fast as I could , not wanting to register their smirks and curiosity . |
| 27 | You got out as quickly as you could the next morning otherwise they could get into your skin . |
| 28 | She 'd have let him get in as deep as possible and then started the pressure … |
| 29 | I thought that it was probably some stupid village prank , but that I 'd better get in as soon as possible in case something odd was happening . |
| 30 | The next time they are able to gather together enough courage to set out for the supermarket they may get only as far as point B before they have had enough , anticipating more extreme levels of anxiety if they continue . |