Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] as [adv] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile government forces had consolidated their positions deep inside UNITA territory near Mavinga , a strategic UNITA base , which the government claimed to have captured in February following heavy fighting , and sought to penetrate as far as the rebel headquarters at Jamba . |
| 2 | By ten I 'd crawled as far as the door . |
| 3 | I 'd got as far as the top step on that flight when the phone went again . |
| 4 | The absence of a major socialist bloc in North America left an unoccupied anti-pluralist niche into which elite theory began to fit as early as the 1930s . |
| 5 | The alarm bells began ringing as early as the seventh minute when Albert Craig struck the post from a narrow angle after capitalising on a moment 's hesitation in the home defence . |
| 6 | Severus managed to get as far as the Montrose region and perhaps briefly beyond that : tantalizingly , in 1869 labourers on the Duke of Sutherland 's railway extension to Helmsdale and ultimately to Thurso in distant Caithness unearthed a collection of Roman bronze coins in a region never held and supposedly never reached by imperial forces . |
| 7 | Edgar managed to get as far as the door . |
| 8 | Because of my injury I did get as far as the Spanish Steps and the shops in Rome , but that was the extent of my sightseeing . |
| 9 | The barge-owners had to go as far as the brewery wharf across Maurice 's foredeck and over a series of gangplanks which connected them with their own boats . |
| 10 | It had vanished as surely as the name of her village had been erased from the map of Israel . |
| 11 | The German Communist Party had not only failed to carry out.the revolution but had vanished as rapidly as the Social Democrats . |
| 12 | The mood immediately sank back into deep depression , especially in the light of the Soviet summer offensive , which had pushed as far as the Vistula , and , in August , the accelerating advance of the western allies through France . |
| 13 | As we watched , the fog , which had crept as far as the house , began to flow round it . |
| 14 | After praying together , Duff had got as far as the door , when the old man whispered his name . |
| 15 | He had got as far as the packaging and labelling them at his premises prior to taking them to the ship . |
| 16 | Passing lamp-lit windows through which they could see sleeping Japanese soldiers and men talking in small groups , they had gone as far as a machine-gun post among the buildings — probably part of the anti-aircraft defences-when a Japanese soldier came up . |
| 17 | She asked whether he had gone as far as the well-pit and the El-ahrairah of Laburnum . |
| 18 | The scaffolding had been cleared away and the plastering had progressed as far as the season would allow . |
| 19 | When we finally reached the top of the Bouton Straits the rain had ceased as completely as the wind and it was only the current which carried us eastwards into the luminous open sea . |
| 20 | When Edmund had left her she had wandered as far as the orchard , and had just pushed aside the crooked wicker gate to re-enter the garden when she heard the latch of the heavier postern rattle . |
| 21 | Perhaps he was looking for a drink by the time he had climbed as far as the Piazza where three renaissance palaces , a town hall and cathedral confront each other across an open space of such lively dignity and harmony as to make the lack of tourist cafes completely forgivable . |
| 22 | In Classical antiquity there were connections between Europe and India even before the conquests of Alexander had extended as far as the north-western part of the Indian subcontinent . |
| 23 | Fleury 's cakes had not turned out very well ; in fact they had dried as hard as the stone they were baked on , and had to be chipped off with a bayonet . |
| 24 | Australia and New Zealand even wanted to go as far as the international operation of aircraft on trunk routes . |
| 25 | By the time we worked it loose and got aboard again , Dennis 's initial fit had passed , but he was still adamant that he wanted to get as far as the Thames . |