Example sentences of "[vb past] as [det] [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Friends rang round to remind each other of the vigil and colleagues rallied as many people as they could to come to St Bride 's . |
| 2 | Indeed the railways created as much beauty as they inadvertently destroyed , but of a totally different kind . |
| 3 | Edwards , who played on despite breaking his nose in the first half , insisted : ‘ Widnes created as many chances as we did , but we were a little more clinical in our finishing . |
| 4 | Ordered to be replayed behind closed doors by the FA after an inquiry into last week 's coin-throwing incident , the game posed as many questions as it answered . |
| 5 | But his letter posed as many questions as it answered , so I rang him up and asked him if he was willing to come and see me . |
| 6 | No film received as much publicity as I am a Fugitive and that was a film more conventional than most critics suspected and which only attacked corrupt and degrading aspects of the South , a part of the country always regarded as a backwater and therefore as relatively easy game . |
| 7 | She visited the client , and through an informal conversation obtained as much information as she could about his or her mental state , behavioural problems , self-care capacity , and home care situation . |
| 8 | The various houses hid as much Champagne as they dared by sealing up some of their cellars , but they had to be very careful not to attract attention . |
| 9 | John said : ‘ We both dashed back to the skip and retrieved as many records as we could . ’ |
| 10 | Both she and Dr Leitch spent as much time as they could spare talking to the young parents who would come to collect these patients on discharge . |
| 11 | For the next 2½ years we spent as much time as we could at the melin . |
| 12 | For a week after his punishment Endill spent as much time as he could lying down . |
| 13 | That is why he spent as much time as he possibly could outside the ring , talking about anything but the council tax . |
| 14 | But these authorities raised as many problems as they solved . |
| 15 | She re-read the previous page , but by the time she 'd got to the bottom again it made as little sense as it had the first time . |
| 16 | Through the Second Son I asked as many questions as I thought sensible and it did n't sound like any malaria I had ever heard of . |
| 17 | In the absence of any corporate direction , BR 's excursion trains then were not much more than a mishmash of bright and not so bright ideas by divisional and area managers , which lost as much money as they made . |
| 18 | He took as many arrows as he could carry and , holding his bow with an arrow ready notched , set off down the track after the verderers . |
| 19 | Again , they could have gone into the supermarket , but they thought the police had had a good look at them , so they sprinted through the crowds who took as little notice as they expected , and across the street just after the lights had changed 50 that the traffic beginning to move , hooted . |
| 20 | The farmers remember the lawless boom times a decade ago , when they grew as much coca as they could manage for the drug traffickers who came from the other side of the continent to their market town . |
| 21 | This was at first very difficult because he knew as little English as I knew German . |
| 22 | On the most important of four questions — ‘ Do you trust the president ? ’ — Mr Yeltsin won as much support as he did in the presidential election of 1991 ( see page 41 ) . |
| 23 | His pursuer smiled grimly , and waited as many seconds as he dared before heaving himself over the wall with surprising agility . |
| 24 | But Commander Roy Penrose , who organised yesterday 's raids , said : ‘ We do not believe they had as much explosives as they claimed . |
| 25 | If the families who received our hampers had as much pleasure as we did in planning them , then it was all worth while . |
| 26 | From then on , the school had as much reason as I did to feel rejected , and if they perceived my rejection as vengeful , they were right . |
| 27 | They decided to go north to Thorpe Old Manor and spend Christmas as if they had as few cares as they now had pence . |