Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | They said they would send it , they got so far as taking her address , but she changed her mind , she wanted to wear it that night . |
| 2 | They got as far as Eldinhope at the head of St Mary 's Loch before the early November dark made following the tracks of even five hundred difficult ; and the Regent and Ramsay spent the night in that remote peel-tower of a Scott laird . |
| 3 | They got as far as ‘ I 'm a Forrester , I score for Leeds , I hate Man U and I hate Chel-sea ’ , plus the line ‘ I put on women 's clothing , like Eric Cantona ’ . |
| 4 | They lived as cheaply as possible , permanently on the brink of destitution , and were often withdrawn , self-isolating personalities with few friends and no contact with their families . |
| 5 | In the ninth century , members of this magnate stratum , this " imperial aristocacy " , could still move about the Carolingian world ; and they moved nearly always as individuals , no doubt with retinues , but not ( an exceptional case apart ) concerting action with groups of kinsmen . |
| 6 | They innovated as far as possible under the 1948 Act but eventually secured a further Act , in 1963 , which legitimated ‘ preventive ’ work . |
| 7 | But by the end of the decade they had absorbed the lessons learned by the other teams , and had accepted that , if they played as well as they could , they could win . |
| 8 | They came as quickly as they went . |
| 9 | They widened still further as his eyes ran slowly over the visible curves of her body . |
| 10 | In constituencies they fared as badly as their West German counterparts , and nationally even worse , winning overall only 0.4% of the votes . |
| 11 | They followed as far as possible in the time available , the practices and procedures of the permanent parliamentary boundary commission , indeed of the six members of the committees , five were members of the parliamentary boundary commissions and they were appointed to the committees after consultation with the opposition parties . |
| 12 | They broke apart almost as soon as she 'd seen them . |
| 13 | It gave her the chance to be with Marguerite , though , and they talked quite easily as they moved around the kitchen . |
| 14 | They tell me that Mr. Stavanger has a magnificent record , and is very highly thought of in shipping circles — indeed , they went so far as to say that they 'd recommend the bank 's board to support him through thick and thin . |
| 15 | Their discussions included the merger of the Falange and the Traditionalist movement and they went so far as to commission a draft document outlining the project . |
| 16 | Indeed , they went so far as to propose that there should be a separate planning code for minerals . |
| 17 | ‘ They went as far as the railway crossin' on the other side of the tunnel , talked to the man on duty at the halt there , then turned back . |
| 18 | They went as far as offering to pay him a retainer on top of his rep salary for two years . |
| 19 | The police say that they reacted as fast as they could , but it would have been unsafe to try and stop the party . |
| 20 | ‘ The decision was to give them a lot of freedom , letting them take the pictures they liked so long as their interpretations were true to the general concept . |
| 21 | They continued as far as Great men , |
| 22 | Terror gripped the two men as they ran as fast as they could away from the ghostly train towards Elsham signal box . |
| 23 | The boys heard the crash and they ran as fast as they could to get help from the police and ambulance , but when the police and ambulance got there they only found the boys ' fishing tackle where they had dumped it in such haste . |
| 24 | Nobody intervened , although there were many people walking in the street , and when the two men had finished what they had obviously planned to do , they left as unhurriedly as they had come . |
| 25 | AT THE beginning of the 20th century Texan lobbyists could get more or less what they wanted so long as they kept politicians supplied with the three Bs : beefsteak , bourbon and blondes . |