Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] as [adv] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AB : Well it was always fairly straightforward for me as far as the repertoire goes . |
| 2 | And this was one of them as far as the demon was concerned ) . |
| 3 | ‘ He owns everything in front of us as far as the eye can see . ’ |
| 4 | Listening to her heavy breathing and her occasional vigorous sniffs , I could feel her concentration as she followed behind me as surely as a blind bat senses light . |
| 5 | Only hummingbirds with curved bills can drink from them and their beaks fit into them as accurately as a curved dagger sliding into its scabbard . |
| 6 | Jackie limped with her as far as the crossroads . |
| 7 | When it was time for Rosie to leave , Ruth walked with her as far as the corner of the street . |
| 8 | All the same John insisted on coming with her as far as the ticket barrier , and stood holding her hand while she attempted to say good-bye . |
| 9 | That night the Wordsworths walked back with him as far as the miner 's house , a short distance from the beech tree above Woodlands Farm where they often parted . |
| 10 | She clung to him while he held himself hard and poised over her for a moment , and then he parted her qivering thighs , slipping himself high inside her as naturally as a silver shoehorn easing on a silk slipper . |
| 11 | The moors stretched before her as far as the eye could see , in fold after fold of snow-covered dunes . |
| 12 | Her hand lay in mine as lightly as a bird 's wing . |
| 13 | Fincara 's maddening laughter rippled out , and she stepped over to him as easily as a dancer . |
| 14 | I can remember the long cloudless days when we drove for mile after mile over desert that stretched out around us as flatly as an unruffled sea ; the way we would pull the throttle out so that the needle stood up straight at the figure forty , and then would laze back with our legs stretched out across the bonnet … . |