Example sentences of "get [adv prt] as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He got up as quickly as the tight fit of the table in the breakfast nook would allow . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Get up as fast as possible . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In Harehills I belonged to the upper crust of the lower middle classes who were getting out as fast as they could . |
| 8 | I got back as quickly as I could . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | You got out as quickly as you could the next morning otherwise they could get into your skin . |
| 11 | She 'd have let him get in as deep as possible and then started the pressure … |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | First , EEC agriculture must be made more efficient and competitive , with the objective being to get down as near as possible to the marketplace and world prices , however they are defined . |
| 14 | Ven chopped her off stingingly before she could finish — and Fabia knew then that she was n't going to get off as lightly as she 'd hoped . |
| 15 | The first thing to do is get up as quickly as possible , so practise falling down in all directions and jumping up again as fast as you can — until the whole movement becomes automatic . |
| 16 | She wanted to sit down but I said we 've just got to get out as soon as possible . |
| 17 | She wanted to sit down but I said we 've just got to get out as soon as possible . |
| 18 | This impression is confirmed by a conversation Eliot had with George Seferis , the Greek poet , in which he explained how uncomfortable he felt when he was forced to take shelter in an underground station during the blitz : " I would feel the need to get out as quickly as possible , to escape all those faces gathered there , to escape all that humanity " . |
| 19 | Erm I do n't know the figures , but the feeling certainly was that everybody wanted to get out , and thy wanted to get out as quickly as they could . |
| 20 | ‘ Obviously you should get back as soon as possible . ’ |
| 21 | If you have to go out to earn a living or live up to commitments and promises you should aim to get back as soon as possible . |
| 22 | There 's nothing for it now but to get back as fast as we can the way we 've come . ’ |
| 23 | She then busied herself around the room , the implication quite clear : I was to drink up and get out as quickly as I could . |