Example sentences of "as [adv] as [pers pn] [vb past] begun " in BNC.
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1 | As suddenly as they had begun , the two men disengaged , as though some unspoken signal had passed between them , and resumed their wary circling . |
2 | Karl stopped laughing as suddenly as he had begun , his face grave and concerned and kindly . |
3 | It fell silent as suddenly as it had begun . |
4 | But just as suddenly as it had begun all this ended three years later , leaving the halls deserted . |
5 | The beating ceased , as suddenly as it had begun . |
6 | He thought for a moment that it might be some kind of game , that their running would cease as suddenly as it had begun , that they 'd stand like statues on the sand , waiting for him to catch up with them . |
7 | the affair blew over as quickly as it had begun , for Bayley removed his sons from the School at the end of the Summer Term . |
8 | His career collapsed as quickly as it had begun , and he died from alcoholism in 1957 . |
9 | It had been forgotten as quickly as it had begun . |
10 | His laughter stopped as quickly as it had begun . |
11 | He stopped trembling as quickly as he had begun a moment before and seemed to withdraw down the dark passage to the daydream he was locked in when they first arrived . |
12 | We hope the trip continued as well as it had begun , and that you got home refreshed . |
13 | He stopped as abruptly as he had begun . |
14 | He broke off , repeated a passage , and then stopped as abruptly as he had begun . |
15 | Only to cease as abruptly as it had begun . |
16 | For almost a minute it continued , and then it stopped , as abruptly as it had begun . |