Example sentences of "have [verb] as [adv] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kevin McKenna , from Manchester Wythenshaw , said : ‘ No industry has failed as comprehensively as the prison industry . |
| 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 | Having got as far as the inverted stage , the easiest answer is to pull the stick back and perform a ha If loop to recover ( again , that 's why you needed lots of height ) . |
| 5 | Norwich will feel they should have scored as early as the second minute . |
| 6 | Catalogues come out early — you may have ordered as early as the Chelsea Flower Show in May — and although you know that the plants will not arrive before the back end of October at the earliest , more likely into November , you will have to plan where the temporary reception centre will be placed . |
| 7 | Although the crossbow is known to have existed as early as the fourth century , its main use was as a hunting weapon and it was not until the latter part of the twelfth century that it became a major military weapon . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It had vanished as surely as the name of her village had been erased from the map of Israel . |
| 10 | The German Communist Party had not only failed to carry out.the revolution but had vanished as rapidly as the Social Democrats . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | As we watched , the fog , which had crept as far as the house , began to flow round it . |
| 13 | After praying together , Duff had got as far as the door , when the old man whispered his name . |
| 14 | He had got as far as the packaging and labelling them at his premises prior to taking them to the ship . |
| 15 | She asked whether he had gone as far as the well-pit and the El-ahrairah of Laburnum . |
| 16 | The scaffolding had been cleared away and the plastering had progressed as far as the season would allow . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |