Example sentences of "at [pron] as [adv] as " in BNC.

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1 But when I bent down on some pretext and could see into his face it seemed possible that he was laughing at himself as well as flustered .
2 If you travel to Japan , one major difficulty will loom at you as soon as you get off the aeroplane : the language problem .
3 " I 'll have a look at him as soon as they 're settled under cover , " he thought .
4 ‘ Carolyn , I 'll go and look at him as soon as I shut the door on you .
5 ’ Clearly , Adam was only reluctantly willing to share his plans with his parents , ‘ Since you ask , I 'm going to go down and take a look at it as soon as I can and then I 'm going to put it on the market . ’
6 Asked by his doctor if he had recovered from flu , he said that he was fine but one of the clocks was going badly , and would the doctor come and have a look at it as soon as it was possible .
7 Er , I 've had a word with Jeremy about decorating , oh Florrie I must apologise I did try to ring you , I think I managed to get everybody else , erm but you were n't there , in and then I , I left it I regret to say , erm but we thought perhaps we ought to have the kitchen re-decorated and I 've had a word with Jereminy , Jereminy , Jeremy and he says about two hundred pounds and I did get permission from some of you and I 've gone ahead and asked him to do it and he said about three weeks , but before we can have that done , in the meantime , the roof leaked again out in the kitchen Erm , so I 've had a word with Peter who was going on holiday and he should be home this week and he said he will look at it as soon as he 's home , so I 'll give him a ring , I 'll try tomorrow night , I 'm out tonight , I 'll try and give him a ring tomorrow .
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