Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] as soon [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I do n't know how it was , but it came about that this confiscation business was dropped just as soon as we Labour got into power . |
| 2 | The vendors intention to sell will be made public as soon as the circular is sent out , yet no consideration will be payable . |
| 3 | She should have turned and walked away as soon as the conversation began to get so very personal . |
| 4 | The cannery was abandoned almost as soon as it was built . |
| 5 | The prince , who took his force into Wales from Chester in good tight order , and at every mile ensured his lines behind him , was on his guard against his own instinctive enthusiasm as well as against Welsh armies , and knew enough about them by this time to feel no surprise that he should probe ever more deeply and carefully into North Wales , and never touch hands with anything more than a darting patrol , gone almost as soon as sighted . |
| 6 | But whereas junket is made with great rapidity and is eaten almost as soon as the curd has set and without being drained , soft cheese takes longer to turn because less rennet must be used and the milk is barely heated , too much rennet and/or too much heat producing a leathery and acid curd . |
| 7 | When at last a reluctant taker was found he asked to be recalled almost as soon as he had arrived at his post . |
| 8 | ‘ Not if he was taken away as soon as he was born . |
| 9 | Those of the junior staff who could provide a satisfactory alibi were allowed home as soon as it had been checked ; one by one and with some reluctance at missing the excitements to come they went their way . |
| 10 | Left home as soon as she could , McLeish observed , instead of starting where she could work from home . |
| 11 | I never got near enough to her to tell her about the boxing and eventually left home as soon as I could . ’ |
| 12 | As long as there is an abundant supply of water high temperatures tend to be associated with high rates of weathering , although this does not necessarily result in deep weathering profiles for , as we have already noted , where slope gradients are steep the products of weathering may be removed almost as soon as they are created . |
| 13 | ‘ The agency will get me placed again as soon as I 'm ready . ’ |
| 14 | Yesterday joinery and construction trainees at the New Careers centre on Darlington 's Faverdale industrial estate were sent home as soon as they arrived . |
| 15 | Yesterday joinery and construction trainees at the New Careers scheme on Darlington 's Faverdale industrial estate were sent home as soon as they arrived at the centre . |
| 16 | Yet the new balance began to be questioned almost as soon as it was put in place , this time by Parliamentary committees . |
| 17 | Tommaso was sure he would be sent there as soon as his training was over . |
| 18 | Mitch would be dispatched speedily as soon as they got back and so would she . |