Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] [adv] as he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Karl stopped laughing as suddenly as he had begun , his face grave and concerned and kindly . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | These may stem from hormonal changes in the woman , from social pressures , from changes in marital or parental role , from career considerations ( especially in the man , who may realise that , at this stage of life , he has gone as far as he is likely to go ) and/or from other causes . |
| 4 | Charles turned to walk as quickly as he could down the steps and away without actually running , when a young woman appeared beside the butler . |
| 5 | There was no way I was ever going to ride as well as he did and he surely knew it . |
| 6 | Poor Nutmeg was very scared , he began to run as fast as he could . |
| 7 | A protesting Maltote was roused and ordered to ride as fast as he could to the royal camp outside Bedford . |
| 8 | It was the red-haired left-hander 's first win over the squash legend , the first time he had played a match lasting an hour and 50 minutes at this level and won , and the first time he can ever have gambled so audaciously as he did at 13-13 in the final game . |
| 9 | She fiercely ignored a small internal voice that warned her there was a fat chance of that coming to pass as far as he was concerned . |
| 10 | The Colonel was used to acting in loco parentis and would certainly not have responded as warmly as he had done to Miss Danziger 's maturity had he not discerned in it a vulnerability : something he could defend . |
| 11 | He heard a cry from the top + the sound of something falling , but he kept running as fast as he could , meowing loudly . |
| 12 | The latter had vanished as punctually as he had appeared . |
| 13 | He can continue to shoot so long as he keeps hitting , up to a maximum of 6 shots per turn . |
| 14 | He advanced on Nick who had retreated as far as he could . |
| 15 | There are certain inconsistencies in Leandre 's story , but he was obviously describing what he had experienced as well as he could remember it . |
| 16 | He felt he had gone as far as he could in the company and learned as much as he was likely to . |
| 17 | He had gone as far as he could go . |
| 18 | I asked Toby why he thought John had reacted as violently as he had to the whole business of our falling in love . |
| 19 | They had spread as far as he could see , grown up to the ceiling and broken through it . |
| 20 | In Canberra last week , he continued to blow as coldly as he had at Twickenham earlier this month and was disappointing , though whether he will be react positively to being dropped is a moot point . |