Example sentences of "[vb past] the [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she reached her father 's house she walked straight in at the gate , which she hardly bothered to open quietly , and flung the stone as hard as she could at the glass of the bedroom window . |
| 2 | On returning to the ward somewhat shaken myself I made the patient as comfortable as I could and asked to speak to the ward sister , who was fortunately very experienced and prepared to believe what I told her . |
| 3 | Both horses have been in bad health recently , so the organisers made the course as easy as possible . |
| 4 | None of these intellectuals attacked the regime as unequivocally as Alexander Herzen , who practically danced in the streets of London when he heard of Nicholas 's death . |
| 5 | Schmidt , born in 1918 , had been a Hitler Youth member and a lieutenant in the wartime army , but he had joined the SPD soon after the war and entered the Bundestag as early as 1953 . |
| 6 | The Kuwait embassy in Jordan described the withdrawal as little more than a manoeuvre to disguise the theft of Kuwaiti military equipment . |
| 7 | Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams described the meetings as ‘ little more than a PR exercise ’ . |
| 8 | She posed the question as casually as possible but the school teacher recognised its significance . |
| 9 | Professor Greve says the Conservative Government moved the goalposts as far as council house building was concerned . |
| 10 | The shop 's manageress says that staff saw it smouldering , so they evacuated the store as quickly as possible . |
| 11 | The Egyptians used the technique as long ago as 2,000 B.C. |
| 12 | But it is highly unlikely that Bertrand found the trip as boring as his song implies . |
| 13 | He found the ward as full of interesting types as in the third class waiting room at the station . |
| 14 | The old man dropped the line and put his foot on it and lifted the harpoon as high as he could and drove it down with all his strength , and more strength he had just summoned , into the fish 's side just behind the great chest fill that rose high in the air to the altitude of the man 's chest . |
| 15 | At the end of the opening night there was an unannounced ceremony , which clearly delighted the audience as much as the eagerly anticipated performance of the work itself . |
| 16 | Jack drove the car as near as he could towards the station building and switched off the faltering engine . |
| 17 | So we prepared the ship as well as we could , and waited . |
| 18 | Despite the elegance , it was a completely masculine presence , and he dominated the room as easily as he had his own office . |
| 19 | This is particularly the case for damage to the left hemisphere of the brain ; and this led to the concept of cerebral dominance : the idea that the left hemisphere dominated the right as far as their contributions to cognitive processing were concerned . |
| 20 | The Ukrainians hated the Jews as much as we did . |
| 21 | simplified the systems as far as possible |
| 22 | Everyone was elated , Jack declared the Vimy as ready as she could be . |
| 23 | Carrie lifted her arm and threw the skull as hard as she could . |
| 24 | Two little apples high in the apple , two little apples smiled down at me , I shook the tree as hard as I could , yummy , yummy , they were very good |
| 25 | Two little apples high in the tree , two little apples smiled down at me , I shook the tree as hard as I could , yummy , yummy , they were very good |
| 26 | Ms Pollock joined the walk as far as the first embassy ( South Africa ) and delivered a copy of their letter to the embassy . |
| 27 | Slowly , she opened the door as quietly as she could . |
| 28 | I opened the seals as carefully as I could and read the file . |
| 29 | We hope you enjoyed the music as much as we did . |
| 30 | Hope y'all enjoyed the day as much as I did . |