Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm sixty next year but I 'd like to carry on for as long as possible . ’ |
| 2 | A stranger entered the bidding and soon gave the impression that he was determined to carry on for as long as was required to obtain the Baron . |
| 3 | The feudal Prussian Junkers , whose estates had limped on for as long as anyone could remember , were hit particularly hard by the Corridor . |
| 4 | While few serious historians have defended Communist excesses , some have argued that it was only the strategy in whose name they were committed that enabled the Republic to fight on for as long as it did . |
| 5 | Do they really go on for as long as they seem to , or are they , as some people have suggested , fleeting sensations before waking up ? |
| 6 | Otherwise carry on for as long as you feel fit . |
| 7 | I 'll carry on for as long as it takes . |
| 8 | ‘ This is the life I 've been trained for and I want to carry on for as long as possible . |
| 9 | Lying under that police car just now , he knew he had gone down about as far as he could go , had expected to be caught , done for . |
| 10 | Self-select P E Ps are a little bit different , is that when you , you the managers give you a choice of shares and it 's rather like pulling the handle on the one-armed bandit , you say right , I 'll start with er er I C I and I 'll back that up with B A T , and , and you leave them in for as long as you want , and you pay a charge when you move the shares , so you can actually control the P E P . |
| 11 | By 1988 West Indies were going through what England had been going through for as long as anyone could remember : a period of transition . |
| 12 | Might as well get the whole thing over with as fast as possible . |
| 13 | I want this over with as quickly as possible . |
| 14 | ‘ What I wish , ’ she said , ‘ is to get this visit to wherever we 're going over with as quickly as possible . ’ |
| 15 | They will put the moment off for as long as possible or refuse to acknowledge that it is coming along and then protest that they were not told . |
| 16 | ‘ Hold them off for as long as you can . ’ |
| 17 | Prices have gone up and up for as long as Texas can remember . |
| 18 | The sun came up about as often as it went down , in the long run , and a coin showed heads about as often as it showed tails . |
| 19 | Up to as late as 1798 , the district governors lived in the castle . |
| 20 | Hindu teachings allow abortion only where a pregnancy constitutes a danger to the mother 's life , Islamic law allows abortion up to as late as 120 days and under Jewish law the foetus is regarded as a subsidiary of the mother and abortion is permitted as long as a number of doctors recommend it . |
| 21 | Their supply base had been moved forward to Benghazi , which by that time had been captured by the British , and it was intended to stay out for as long as two months , mounting almost nightly raids . |
| 22 | Unfit scrappers with a weight difference of a couple of stone can slug it out for as long as the organizers see fit and the sport can accommodate fighters who might have been barred from the more formal ring or people who want to avoid the cartels that run the official game . |
| 23 | The boss said you were to take her out for as long as you wanted , sir . |
| 24 | We 'll be coming back for as long as we can . |
| 25 | And it is the same attitude of world-weariness and sophistication that socializes each generation of students and new teachers into believing that their own blends of ill-formed idealism , intermittent enthusiasm and nagging doubt about the true value of what they are doing are merely the embarrassing stigmata of the beginner , to be covered up as much as possible , and grown out of as soon as possible . |
| 26 | She withdrew her finger when told but put it back in as soon as possible . |
| 27 | A cheese resembling Camembert was the glory of Cottenham in Cambridgeshire , where records for cheese making go back to as early as 1280 ; and production ceased only in the mid-nineteenth century with the enclosure of the common fen . |
| 28 | ‘ You might as well hang around for as long as you can . ’ |
| 29 | When you 've brawled around for as long as I have your senses get to know the kind of fix that you ca n't just walk through or away from . |
| 30 | ‘ Which makes it more difficult for us , ’ said Pooley , ‘ since they did n't hang around for as long as usual , and therefore every single one of them was unobserved by the others for a minimum of half an hour . ’ |