Example sentences of "come [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem is that the invitation must have come rather late as Carolyn recalls : ‘ I walked in about six o'clock and Diana went : ‘ Quick , quick I 've got to meet Charles in twenty minutes . ’ |
| 2 | Please arrange for the solicitor to come as soon as possible so that I can sign the necessary papers . |
| 3 | you want a police to come as soon as possible , and you want to , to deal with it because it 's a priority to you . |
| 4 | ‘ I mean , you 're welcome to come as far as I 'm concerned ’ . |
| 5 | Yeah they 're all up now , and they 've come out just as |
| 6 | ‘ They would n't have come as far as this on their own , he must be driving them . ’ |
| 7 | Managers in their late forties begin to see that they are no longer the up-and-coming stars — indeed they may have come as far as they are going to go . |
| 8 | Pressure on the government to intervene had come as early as 1952 with the publication of the Church of England Moral Welfare Council 's Report entitled The Problem of Homosexuality which advocated reform of the law . |
| 9 | Sorry I took so long , but a customer came in just as you darted off . ’ |
| 10 | John Coffin came in just as she took a sip . |
| 11 | Sometimes she came home just as I was due to leave , or vice versa . |
| 12 | The canyon walls came close together as they rode in gathering darkness . |
| 13 | And then , for the first time ever in my life , I what I normally do is I have sort of maybe some questions that I definitely pre-plan and if I 'm lucky one or two of them , and this paper all three of my prepared questions actually came up exactly as I 'd worded them , or near enough . |
| 14 | She jumped and came up short as the rope went taut . |
| 15 | He came back just as we were finishing the test . |
| 16 | ‘ I came as fast as I could . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The system of the citizens filling offices by random rotation , and of having the right to take part in the assembly , meant that Athens between , say 462 and 322 , came as near as any community ever has to achieving the democratic ideal of government by the people themselves , through citizen participation , rather than the modern substitutes of representation or even delegation . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Considering that closure for Deepcar station came as early as 1959 , the lavatory sign has done well to survive . |
| 21 | The first test in Europe of the theory of " liberation " came as early as 1953 when , after the death of Stalin , unrest in the satellite countries came to a head with a rising by the people of East Germany . |
| 22 | That came as early as the 88th second when Fox kicked to the corner and centre Frank Bunce wrestled the ball from Ieuan Evans . |
| 23 | That came as early as the 88th second when Fox kicked to the corner and centre Frank Bunce wrestled the ball from Ieuan Evans . |
| 24 | Would Poems came as naturally as Silk Thread . |
| 25 | If the buses came as far as Clifton Road it would be alright but any further away and people would have practically walked into town by the time they got to the nearest bus stop . ’ |
| 26 | They came as quickly as they went . |
| 27 | ‘ I came as quickly as I could . |
| 28 | We had misty rain as we started out but the sun came out just as we got to the rapids . |
| 29 | As far as the conglomerate departments were concerned , I think those came about broadly as we intended . |
| 30 | Griffith 's breakthrough came almost accidentally as he attempted to forge a career in a new industry about which he knew little . |