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Sunday, December 12, 2021

As: Collocation and Word Clusters (high frequency)

 

AS SOON AS

As soon as he's finished, I'll send him up.     

 

AS WELL AS

He composed himself as well as he could to wait for the answer.

     

AS LONG AS

"You won't be in any trouble," said Vickers, "as long as you don't try anything."

 

AS FAR AS

She'd tramp miles up and down the beaches and throw the bottles out as far as she could.

     

AS MUCH AS

Today's prices and wages would have startled Mark Twain as much as he amazed his characters.

     

AS IF HE

It was as if the room were filled with the spice scent of many dusty years.

     

AS GOOD AS

It was not as good as the real thing it was better.

     

IT WAS AS

It was as if the room were filled with the spice scent of many dusty years.

     

AS FAST AS

He pulled himself to his feet as fast as his stiff knees would allow.

     

AS HE HAD

It hadn't taken as long to convince Crawford as he had thought it might.    

 

FAR AS I

As far as I'm concerned, you ain't nothin' but a big-mouthed bluff.

     

MIGHT AS WELL

Well, I thought I might as well get up and start my housecleaning.

     

SOON AS I

As soon as I get through talking to you," said Vickers, "I'm going to do some painting.”

     

AS IF IT

It frightened me; I let it fall to the table as if it were aflame.

     

SOON AS

THE You will return here automatically as soon as the Station is activated. 

 

AS A MATTER

A good deal in the last few days, as a matter of fact.

        

AS HE COULD

I George Meister thought about it with as much coherence as he could muster.

     

AS IT WAS

"Just as it was before," said Vickers.

     

SOON AS HE

As soon as he's finished, I'll send him up.

     

AS HE WAS

The surgeon proceeded with the incisionas long as he was able.

     

WELL AS THE

As well as the next man, I suppose.

     

AS BIG AS

Hunting with great hawks, as big as eagles.

     

AS THOUGH HE

His free hand made a swift, involuntary movement as though he were going to catch her arm.

     

THE SAME AS

“Horton Flanders,” says the robot, "is an android, just the same as you."

     

LONG AS YOU

In fact, you could spend them anywhere, as long as you only passed one bill at a time.

     

FAR AS THE

I progressed as far as the Tibetan Llamas had done a thousand years ago.

     

AS IF THEY

Go in as if nothing M at all had happened, as if they each were the same person they had been the last time they had met?

     

AS IF THE

It was as if the room were filled with the spice scent of many dusty years.

     

IT AS A

Let's see it as a business because war. in certain aspects, is just that.

     

HIM AS HE

"What" She leaned closer to him as he struggled for the word.

     

LONG AS HE

I'm going to make still greater effort to dress even naughtier for him, as long as he lasts.

     

AS BAD AS

I'm getting as bad as you.

     

AS IT IS

With the feeling running as it is on Earth, they would be mobbed and lynched.

     

AS A RESULT

It had come as a result of the watchbird discovery that watchbirds were living organisms.

     

AS QUICKLY AS

It will be your task to locate the following articles as quickly as possible.

     

AS YOU CAN

You can repair yourself as easily 'I as you can grow a new limb.

     

SOON AS WE   

He said, "I'll be leaving just as soon as we're through here and, as I said, I ought to be back in a weektwo weeks at the very most."

     

SOON AS YOU

And you'll explain to the Loyalty Committee why you didn't return as soon as you regained consciousness.

     

FAR AS HE

It was about an inch thick, as far as he could tell, grayish black and intricately veined.

     

SO FAR AS

It was a true symbiosis, on a higher level than any other planet, so far as George knew, had ever developed.

     

AS IT HAD

The leech was as near ecstasy as it had ever been.

     

SOON AS THEY

"The bloody thing's not safe," complained Deane as soon as they were airborne.

 

LONG AS I

Frank treated me with every courtesy, indicating that I could stay with him as long as I wished, weeks, months, even years.

     

AS I WAS

They were allexcept onekidnapped and convinced later, as I was, that this was a job that had to be done.

 

SOON AS POSSIBLE

Meet me at second stage as soon as possible.

 

AS THEY WERE

The man seemed as old as they were, old enough to be MacDonald's father instead of Judith's.

     

AS IF SHE

He had told his mother and she had snatched away the flower, as if she'd been afraid of it.

     

WELL AS A

He is a subtle, profound thinker as well as a delightful writer, and he has that inquiring mind we can all appreciate.

     

AS IF TO

She stared at him as if to pierce the blankness of his gaze.


LONG AS THE    

"As long as the marker hasn't blown away" said McKay as they began their run.

 

WELL AS I

You know that as well as I do.

     

AS I COULD   

I can't transfer to you, for instance, as I could normally from another.       

 

IF IT WERE

There was a walk that looked as if it were made of glass and there were birds and flowers and trees and some    rocks.

 

AS HE DID

"Good thing we” he cleared it up as soon as he did.      

 

JUST AS WELL 

But maybe it was just as well that he hadn't told Ann.

 

AS I CAN   

"I'll explain the situation to you as well as I can, Mr.”     

 

AS THOUGH IT      

It swung nervously, as though, it hurt all the time.

 

AS IF I

'You are one of them, but quit acting as if I were an enemy."

     

ME AS A

This strikes me as a pretty dubious way of assuming one's responsibilities as a superbeing.

     

AS FOR THE

Sherrington, and as for the boy's father, they assumed he had died in the war.

     

JUST AS THE

In any event, he had left Manneran on some business trip just as the weather was beginning to go berserk.        

 

AS HIGH AS

If a Titan C rocket with a Centaur as the upper stage were used the weight of the probe could be as high as pounds.

     

AS YOU KNOW

Will recognition come' The only answer, as you know, is that success does come to the man who is really trained.

     

AT LEAST AS  

"I wouldn't think so; you're at least as far up in your American idiom as I am."

     

WAS AS IF    

It was as if the room were filled with the spice scent of many dusty years.

  

AS HARD AS   

"We've been jolting her a bit. but not as hard as Sal." 

     

SO MUCH AS

The two years had not aged Halum so much as burnished her and she had come to the full radiance of her beauty.    

 

AS ONE OF   

As one of my oldest and dearest friends I could not help but think..."

 

LOOKED AS IF

Near the end of the Cretaceous Period which followed the Jurassic, it looked as if there were hints of climatic zones. 

 

LONG AS THEY

As he poured, he said: "They shouldn't waste grain making this stuff... but as long as they do, it's a shame not to drink it."

 

FOR AS LONG

We can lay sterility on any or all of the six races on any world we choose, for as long a period of time as is necessary.

     

AS TO THE

And that gives me a lead as to the course I should follow.

     

AS MANY AS

And your friends shall bring friends, as many as possible shall have refreshment!

     

MUCH AS I   

Winters did as much as I, even if he was a graduate student.

     

HE SAID AS   

"This is going to be a real storm down here," he said as he converted to forward thrust.

     

AS THOUGH THE   

O'Donnell was dealing with it as he would any physical obstacle, as though the leech were the simple equivalent of a large army.

     

SO LONG AS

For so long as you were someone else, you need not be yourself, vulnerable and afraid.

     

IT S AS

"It's as cold as a long winter evening."

     

AS I AM

Well, it's good to know that, lonely and rather worried as I am, I can still laugh at my own jokes.

     

LONG AS WE

It's one of their sacred places, but they don't mind us coming here as long as we pay for the privilege.

     

LONG AS IT

"It could possibly grow as long as it had something to feed on."

     

AS I SAID   

He said, "I'll be leaving just as soon as we're through here and, as I said, I ought to be back in a weektwo weeks at the very most."

     

AS HE WATCHED

The traveler experienced a sensation of tremendous fondness as he watched them go.

     

AND AS HE

A group of men were standing by the gate and as he turned in, he saw there were some he knew.

     

FAR AS WE    

"He is projecting no more than a natural response, not even, as far as we know, any suggestion of actual mating.”

     

AS A MAN

He was recognized in Manneran as a man of wisdom and temperance.        

 

WAS JUST AS    

But maybe it was just as well that he hadn't told Ann.     

 

OF IT AS

"Surely gravity can't turn back on itself" "Think of it as falling through the world, Mac.”

     

AS SIMPLE AS   

It's as simple as that.

 

AS HE WALKED   

A boy came along a walk, bouncing a ball as he walked.

     

AS GOOD A

It simply means that on a number of levels it's not as good a book in its own terms as Pavanne was.

     

AS HE WENT

He heard a rattling of stones as he went by.

     

EVEN AS HE

But even as he thought it, he knew who it was.

     

SOON AS IT

As soon as it's in range I'll put an Interface in front of it.

     

AS CLOSE AS   

I was as close as one could imagine, closer by far than it was decent for her to know.         

 

SUCH AS THE

But then, he had never met such as the Egyptian, either singly or en masse.

     

TO BE AS

"My doing so was supposed to be as secret as the files themselves."

 

AS THEY HAD

It was not a threat from outsideno invasion such as they had turned back in the past.

     

AS A MEMBER 

As a member you need take only selections or Alternates during the coming year.

 

MUCH AS A

Kramatz swung a yardstick through him and Dilwarden said he felt it as much as a flashlight beam.  


AS YOU ARE

Come as you are.

     

AS OLD AS

The man seemed as old as they were, old enough to be MacDonald's father instead of Judith's.

     

AS THOUGH THEY

The manufacturers looked as though they would have enjoyed throttling Gelsen.

     

HIM AS A

The other box, rather small, contained a shredded vegetable which served him as a poor substitute for chewing tobacco.        

 

AS HE SPOKE

"Quick," said the man, the knife-mark writhing as he spoke, teeth flashing in the whisker-shadowed face.        

 

HE WAS AS

In the fire's gleam, he was as much a savage as they, and the majesty of his bearing spoke more loudly.

     

KNOWN AS THE

Our age may one day be known as the Spillane Era.


MUCH AS HE

Today's prices and wages would have startled Mark Twain as much as he amazed his characters.

     

FAR AS IT

Man's brain is evolved as far as it ever will, we've reached the end of the road.

     

AS LARGE AS

Channing," he said, "though what we have in mind mightn't be quite as large as you wish.”

     

AS I HAD

The rest of you had started on ahead by then, as I had expected.

 

WAS NOT AS

It was not as good as the real thing it was better.

     

TO HIM AS

"What" She leaned closer to him as he struggled for the word.

     

AS WE CAN

There is, so far as we can find, no factory that builds them. 

     

AS CLOSE TO

The subject of this was off a ways, watching the Professor with as close to adoration as a steam engine can get, I expect.

     

AND AS THE

Egantei dressed himself and as the clean cloth settled next to his body peace left him.

     

AS IF YOU

“As if you'd been working for sixty hours straight and were too tired to sleep?"   

 

AS MUCH OF

But I'd not rate him as much of a flamer.

     

AS I HAVE

I hear you saying now that I must be either lying or lazy to offer you as little specific detail of the experience as I have done.

     

WASN'T AS   

It wasn't as if any other tribe was better off. 

 

AS THEY ARE

All fixed laws of nature are as fascinating to study as they are vital to understand for success in Life.

     

AS FEW AS

During your Trial Subscription you agree to take as few as four books in the next twelve months.

     

JUST AS HE

He knew why they were building up, just as he had told them.

     

AS THOUGH SHE

She felt as though she had been jabbed with a pin. 

 

OF THEM AS

He had never thought of them as humanlike, but rather. as fascinating mechanical games, with a reward of understanding lor success.

     

WAS ALMOST AS

It was almost as if the boy were reproaching him.

     

AS I DO

You know that as well as I do.

     

AS HE LOOKED

Waiting was harder than moving as he looked at the black mouth of the breech.

 

BIG AS A

The count's nautical chronometer was as big as a cabbage, handmade of brass and steel, and it clacked loudly.

     

WAS AS THOUGH

The contrast between Noim's Noim and the world's was startling: it was as though he were capable of correctly evaluating everything but his own worth.

     

AS EASILY AS

They seemed convinced that they wouldn't find a mutant as easily as finding him hidden among crates.  

 

AS HE TURNED

A group of men were standing by the gate and as he turned in, he saw there were some he knew.

     

AS SHE HAD

She threw it as she had thrown the first one-and the difference was immediately obvious.

     

YOU KNOW AS

You know as much as I do.

     

AS A WHOLE

The whole picture is what would result if the Universe as a whole were expanding and it has, indeed, led to that concept.

     

AS THE FIRST

This game proceeded as brilliantly and vividly as the first.

     

AS NEAR AS

"And we're about as near as anybody's ever been.”


JUST AS I

"Well, look," he said earnestly, just as I figured he would, "how about the Amazons?”

 

AS YOU SAY

"Then I'll do as you say."

     

MUCH AS THE

Inside, the place was an outright slaughterhouse, resembling nothing so much as the last act of Webster's The White Devil.

     

AS HE PASSED

The plastic pipe became dark and murky as he passed up it into his ship.

     

AS HE CAME   

"Hi, Charlie," one of them called as he came in.

     

AS STRONG AS

His own sense of revulsion was as strong as Roi's.

     

AS SHE WAS

She did as she was told, convinced I would bring no harm to her.

     

TO ME AS

Maybe the lack of adequate space per person is just as dangerous psychologically to me as to mice.

     

WAS AS GOOD

Presently she whispered, that was as good a kiss as the very first one, Jake... and I no longer feel like crying.

     

THEM AS THEY

He managed to send one weak spit from Ragnarok's lasers' after them as they picked up gees.     

 

WELL AS HE

He composed himself as well as he could to wait for the answer.        

 

IT IS AS  

It is as if the Inner Circle has suddenly forgotten about the Tournament.    

 

AS PART OF  

They emerged into his consciousness as part of a gestalt confusion.

     

MUCH AS YOU

I suppose I should pretend I know as much as you think I doact smart and make you believe I know all there is to know.

 

SAID AS HE    

“Good morning, dear," Carrin's wife said as he sat down at the breakfast table.

     

AS IF IN  

It moved with a limp, as if in sacrilegious mockery of wounded Thorun's gait.

     

WOULD BE AS  

It would be as simple as that.

     

AND AS SOON

And as soon as they were secure, each person in turn discarded the benefactor.

     

AS IF

A When it broke at last, I felt a shivering resonance, as if a taut string had snapped.

     

LOOKED AS THOUGH

The manufacturers looked as though they would have enjoyed throttling Gelsen.

     

AS WE ARE    

"The alternative," he said, "is simply to keep on going as we are.”

     

SO AS TO  

I will converse with him at length so as to become exasperated with all the despicable traits of his race.

     

MUCH AS POSSIBLE

We would prefer to be left alone as much as possible.

      

AS OFTEN AS  

Flatland has been quoted in early science fiction stories about as often as the name of Albert Einstein was thrown around.

     

IT LOOKED AS

Near the end of the Cretaceous Period which followed the Jurassic, it looked as if there were hints of climatic zones.

     

HAD BEEN AS

At the beginning of the project, he had been as enthusiastic as the others.

     

AS YOU WISH     

"As you wish," the A-class leady said. 

 

FELT AS IF

He felt as if he'd swallowed lead.

 

AS TALL AS    

One day she will be almost as tall as I am.

     

JUST AS SOON

Her power groups in the world are not ready to lay down their arms just as soon as the English do.

 

AS A HUMAN

This is a complicated story of his downfall as a human being.

     

AS TO BE   

"My dear Professor, your, ah, report has thus far been so ridiculous as to be almost incoherent, but now you verge on insanity.”

 

ISN T AS  

After all, it isn't as if the two races could interbreed. 

      

AS TO WHAT

There was no hint as to what any of these countermeasures might be.

     

AS HE SAW

There was a pang in Harvey's heart as he saw Myra again.

     

FEW AS FOUR

During your Trial Subscription you agree to take as few as four books in the next twelve months.

     

AT HIM AS

She stared at him as if to pierce the blankness of his gaze.

     

YOU MIGHT AS

You might as well know the whole story.

     

LONG AS THERE

“As long as there are people," he said philosophically, "there'll be talk.”

     

THEY WERE AS  

They were as glad to get rid of her as we to take over.

      

SOON AS SHE

She escaped as soon as she could with the check.

 

ALMOST AS IF

He is surprised by the many things which he actually seems to know, almost as if he had a previous memory of the situation.

 

AS LITTLE AS   

Otherwise, we would wish to have as little as possible contact with your personnel, and certainly none of a social nature.    

 

ME AS I

No one paid the slightest attention to me as I came up to the table. 

  

KNOW AS WELL

He know as well as I do people do not sit with folk.


AS IN THE  

Moreover, as in the case of the planet, there was no choice.

     

AS WE KNOW   

It will take twenty feet of rock as we know it to do that.

     

SIMPLE AS THAT   

It would be as simple as that.

     

QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE    

It will be your task to locate the following articles as quickly as possible.

     

AS I’M   

As far as I'm concerned, you ain't nothin' but a big-mouthed bluff.

     

AS YOU HAVE                    

No one else in here would have asked such questions as you have been asking.

     

AS I DID

Segvord assured me that in Manneran there was no harm in accepting them as long as I did not let them interfere with my objectivity of judgment.

 

AND AS FAR  

And as far as we knew then, when the raids stopped the respite was only temporary.

     

AND AS A

He had chosen as a friend and as a mistress two illusions, not two real people.

     

AS RAPIDLY AS

Old enough to have survived the Holocaust, Andrews came forward as rapidly as his physical condition permitted and was sworn in.

     

SHE WAS AS  

She was as stiff as an offended librarian.

     

HER AS SHE

"Then take it off," he told her as she drew back.

     

AS THE SHIP  

"One thing I don't understand, Mac," the girl said as the ship climbed away.

     

HIM AS IF  

She stared at him as if to pierce the blankness of his gaze.        

 

YOU AS A   

"Now we'll have to hold you as a hostage in case help should arrive."

 

AS THE DOOR  

"Here's the tea and some sandwiches," he said as the door opened to admit a parade of tray-bearing stewards.

 

AS EASY AS

"This might not be as easy as it sounds.”

     

TIMES AS MUCH

“You've given me five times as much as you've taken," I protested.

     

AS IF WE 

"My God, we're fighting as if we're married!"

 

WE MIGHT AS

"I guess," said Eb, "we might as well get started.”

     

AS HE MOVED 

He plugged in the wire and watched the little light flicker on as he moved the switch beside it.

 

THAT WAS AS  

She would return to the camp before the first light of dawn. and that was as it should be.

 

AS THEY CAME  

White sunlight was still striking into the entrance hall as they came backand under it, the floor was smoking.

     

BUT NOT AS  

Use machines, yes. but not as judges and teachers and fathers.


AS THAT OF

One of the voice he recognizes as that of Horton Flanders.

     

HIS HEAD AS

Shivering a little, Hanardy shook his head as if to dear it of mental fogand dumbed to his feet.

     

AS THOUGH

I Now it looked as though I wasn't going to get the deal or have a chance to change the rules.

     

AS I KNOW  

So far as I know, no one has wanted to.

     

AS THE ONE  

Leros, watching, remembered this man as the one who had asked about acquiring the healing powers of a god.

     

IT AS IF  

You would write it as if you had doped it out yourself.

     

AS I’VE

As I've told you, we ran into stone walls.

     

IS NOT AS

The book is not as simple as its predecessor but it remains alive and easy to read.

     

LOOK AS IF

“You look as if it were the end of the world."


I MIGHT AS

Well, I thought I might as well get up and start my housecleaning.

     

SUCH THING AS  No such thing as time in the terms of normal human thought.

     

MAY AS WELL  

I may as well organize all this while I'm resting.

     

AS HE SAT   

He caught himself dozing as he sat.

     

AS WELL HAVE  

We might just as well have stood in bed!

     

IS NOT AS  

The book is not as simple as its predecessor but it remains alive and easy to read.

     

BUT AS A  

But as a layman, he is starting to frighten me.

 

AS HE APPROACHED

"Get back into the cabin, Dev," McKay ordered as he approached the seaward blocks, converting down the lines from here.

     

YOU’RE AS

“How, I don't know, but so far as cover is concerned, you're as conspicuous as a walrus in a goldfish bowl."

     

SUCH THINGS AS

Although there are no seconds, no such things as seconds, no such measurement, of course.

     

AS FAR AWAY  

When he played in the temple concerts, people sometimes came from as far away as Zrig to hear him.

 

BUT AS HE  

But as he rested he thought of Myra.

     

GOOD AS THE  

It was not as good as the real thing it was better.

     

IS AS GOOD  

This is as good a time as any.


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Been: Collocations and clusters (high frequency)

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