Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [adv] as [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She giggled when his second attempt ended in the same way , and when he grasped her in a great bear hug , she was able to slip away as easily as if it were a child holding her . |
| 2 | Apart from being baked hard by the heat of the lava , these sediments were quite undisturbed , and had been carried bodily as smoothly as if they had gone up in a lift . |
| 3 | In exchange for most of a shipment of Hawk parts worth $6.5m , no hostages appeared ; and the hopelessness of the enterprise was laid out as clearly as if a hand had drawn it in the heavens . |
| 4 | She dimly saw Aunt Emily by the fire and the silver tea service winked on a table beside her , and there , in front of the fire , standing there as comfortably as if it were his own fire , she saw with no surprise at all , that it was Michael Swinton . |
| 5 | Well , even then , not knowing Goreng and with two toes blown off as cleanly as if the surgeon 's knife had done the job , a mangled calf , and shrapnel resident two centimetres from the balls , I could recognise Martinho had played a masterly hand . |
| 6 | Jessamy jumped back as quickly as if she had been shot . |