Example sentences of "as [adv] as [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , Stein went as far as to wish his players ‘ all the best for the future . ’ |
| 2 | But with Barnet owing £1.3million and the players and staff unpaid for three weeks , Stein believes it is unlikely the crisis can be averted and went as far as to wish his players ‘ all the best for the future . ’ |
| 3 | He got as far as lifting his head and getting one shoulder off the seat , but then collapsed back onto the leather , and let his eyes close . |
| 4 | Though an individual pupil may be in his fourth-year class as far as the administration of the school goes , and as far as concerns his social activities or his out-of-school interests , the school must be prepared for him to go off and study the syllabus required for his graded tests alongside people who are not in his own year . |
| 5 | His uncle 's wealth , the chauffeur-driven limousine which brought him to and from school , cut him off as securely as did his own past . |
| 6 | Only in the last ten years or so had he been able to give up going to the country towns and villages for uncomfortable , if lucrative , one- or two-day visits ; only then had he found it possible to move from Jewtown to commodious rooms in Patrick Street , Cork 's main thoroughfare , where he could live as well as have his surgery . |