Example sentences of "on as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would of course let me know what was going on as soon as possible . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've been asked by the Cancer Research Campaign to press on as fast as possible . ’ |
| 3 | The ladies of the town shrieked with laughter whilst Ranulf , his face flushed , hurried on as fast as he could . |
| 4 | In Scotia and in Orkney , the work went on as fast as resources would allow , and more speedily than it might once have done because of the cleared roads and the stations of help that now existed through the newborn network of local churches and local leadership . |
| 5 | I was determined to carry on as normally as I could . ’ |
| 6 | We carried on as best as we could . ’ |
| 7 | Brave Nicola Wilkinson , who refused to let go of 12-month-old Kristian Watson , said : ‘ I just hung on as tightly as I could . ’ |
| 8 | Finding the roads almost traffic free , I decided to push on as quickly as possible towards the harsh and romantic west coast . |
| 9 | He 'd lay it on as gently as he could , and when she came round she would n't even remember how it had happened . |
| 10 | Additionally , a more flexible attitude by social services to enable the young person without fully satisfactory living arrangements to go to , to stay on as long as necessary at the home , would be preferable to sticking rigidly to a somewhat arbitrary age cut-off time . |
| 11 | They clattered on as far as the door ; under workbenches , into cracks , finding every obscure corner . |
| 12 | Would they really be able to travel on as far as Fiver 's high place — wherever it might be ? |
| 13 | But it 's that figure there that I think we need to concentrate on as far as good bonuses are concerned . |
| 14 | Let's have a look at this year 's price list er it says nineteen ninety three but I say it 's carried on as far as we know er there are n't any at the moment increases . |
| 15 | We must remember , however , that just as all the alpine chains of Europe are now known to have been still pushing forward over the molasse in late Miocene times , so in places such as the Apennines , movements were still going on as late as Quaternary times . |
| 16 | After a shamingly large second supper of chicken , sweetcorn and cake , a vast vodka and tonic and half a bottle of red wine , at one o'clock in the morning the chatter suddenly turned into the Frogsmore Stream running under Snow Cottage and she fell asleep until six to find the chatter going on as loud as ever . |