Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Visits to Exeter he made as rarely as possible . |
| 2 | He made as swiftly as he could for the foyer . |
| 3 | He said you know , cos he lived as cheaply as he could while he was out there and |
| 4 | He cared as much as I do . |
| 5 | I would wager that he goes so far as to say that I broke down in his room , stuttering out the words of my so-called confession between chokes and tears , unable to speak properly . |
| 6 | He goes so far as to claim that this form of control is now ‘ characteristic of the majority of enterprises in the USA and Britain ’ , thereby denying the predominance of the management control form . |
| 7 | His opinions , he knows , are not shared by fellow portrait painters — he goes so far as to describe ‘ the rest ’ as producing ‘ old hat , boring , herd-of-sheep painting ’ , too preoccupied with imbuing a portrait with the sitter 's character . |
| 8 | Blondel in his study Political Parties : A Genuine Case for Discontent ? claims that " in the great majority of cases programmes are unclear , often limited in scope , and not closely connected to the goals which the party proclaims " and he goes so far as to assert that " on balance parties do not really have programmes " . |
| 9 | ‘ You were afraid then ? ’ he asked as softly as the noise of the plane allowed . |
| 10 | ‘ What shall we do this afternoon ? ’ he asked as casually as if they spent all their Wednesday afternoons together . |
| 11 | He got as far as the lawn , just out there , and then he stopped and stood , seemingly just staring at the house . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He got as far as twelve , then he looked puzzled . |
| 14 | He got as far as Rugby before he was caught . |
| 15 | In the coalfields he read as avidly as ever , including in his reading books about the French revolution by Michelet and others . |
| 16 | He saw himself as a buffoon with nasty reserves of observation , a man with goonish spectacles clamped round his ears and perfidy in his guts , and he felt so appalled by his mistrust of an old friend who must surely be taken for an ally that he tried as fast as possible to invent some headway on the project about Berlin . |
| 17 | She had few friends to whom he objected as strongly as Bridget . |
| 18 | He was really playing great tennis , ’ McEnroe conceded , ‘ I did n't realise he moved as well as he did . |
| 19 | He moved as quietly as he could . |
| 20 | He moved as quietly as he could towards the connecting door , grasped the handle and with a single movement flung the door open . |
| 21 | He moved as quickly as a squirrel , half-falling from knot to knot . |
| 22 | He stopped as abruptly as he had begun . |
| 23 | He stopped as abruptly as she had done . |
| 24 | He trembled as intensely as a fly whirs its wings , and stopped talking . |
| 25 | Although Ronnie Allen was only 5ft 8 inches tall , he played equally effectively as centre-forward or at outside-right , and he had appeared in both positions for England during his time with West Bromwich Albion . |
| 26 | Angel had never had a lesson ; he played as naturally as he walked . |
| 27 | He stop as far as page 118 of McCann . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I am the Conservatives ’ Jeremy Irons , ’ he murmured as apologetically as if he were standing at the rostrum with a brand new Oscar . |
| 29 | He was mostly on the defensive and , towards the end , he came as near as possible to resignation , but throughout he gave remarkably little ground on either issue . |
| 30 | To do Haverford justice , he was n't altogether happy about his lack of rapport with his daughter ; at times he came as near as he ever could to feeling guilty about it . |