Example sentences of "left [adv] [adv] as [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody intervened , although there were many people walking in the street , and when the two men had finished what they had obviously planned to do , they left as unhurriedly as they had come . |
| 2 | Her boyfriend , having disappeared during her pregnancy , returned and acted like a concerned father for a few months after the baby was born , even coming to live in Joanne 's house , but then left as suddenly as he had come , and all the family feel very bitter about this . |
| 3 | Wycliffe left as abruptly as he had arrived . |
| 4 | Then El-Jorr wrenched open the door and , ignoring everybody , left as abruptly as he had arrived , muttering to himself . |
| 5 | Yet he was a kind of Christ figure , who entered the lives of ordinary people in a rich , bored , bourgeois family , made love to them all indifferently , both male and female , inexplicably , then left as mysteriously as he had come , deserting them in the hours of their greatest need . |
| 6 | He nodded to her and placed the tray on a low table beside her and left as quietly as he had entered . |