Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adv] as [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first it was men who were not allowed into the house and although this position resulted in a lot of criticism and ridicule , most feminists had some sympathy so long as we did n't seriously advocate separatism for all women . |
| 2 | The tsar had been enthusiastic about change so long as he remained in the orbit of Elena Pavlovna , but in St Petersburg his convictions or his courage deserted him . |
| 3 | I scuttered around until I was facing the doors and pulled my legs in just as they opened fully . |
| 4 | And best of all the pictures that flew through her mind so happily as she jolted onwards was Michael Swinton 's gratitude and delight , how touched he would be that she had thought of him , how she would seem to him like some sort of Christmas spirit , glittering in a thousand jewels , her arms laden with bounty … |
| 5 | Drink had made George sentimental and he turned his mouth down lugubriously as he remembered his steady and the down payment on the furniture . |
| 6 | Yet all that feeling , all that energy , discharged itself into the void so long as it did not flow down one of the channels that made the great wheels turn — in Edinburgh , in London and Paris . |
| 7 | Scarlet had been willing to admit the truth of her words but had ceased too soon to concentrate , her mind already elsewhere as she wondered whether , if she could express herself differently and more coherently , her therapist might not have another , and a clearer , image of her . |
| 8 | ‘ You may find this job a little … unusual , ’ he said , choosing his words as carefully as he picked his way through stacks of jerrycans , bundles of wire , and anonymous green sacks . |
| 9 | I had a lesson with him and he told me that if I squeezed my knees together I would slow down my bottom half and be able to release the club as hard as I wanted to . |
| 10 | The principle of interchangeable parts did not catch on in British industry as fast as it did in the American gun industry ; Colt 's revolvers were the great examples of what became known as the American system of manufacture . |
| 11 | One might be tempted to argue that the photon is absorbed by the microscope and that by measuring the latter 's consequent recoil , due to acquiring the photon 's momentum after its collision with the electron , we could evaluate this momentum as accurately as we wished . |
| 12 | She crouched at the firebox , shooting the wood into its mouth as quickly as it came , then cowered back from the sudden heat as the blaze was roused again . |
| 13 | That the king yielded to the resulting complaints of the clergy as far as he did might be explained by his preoccupations in Paris when he could hardly afford serious embarrassment at home ; yet it seems more likely that he recognized the powerful tradition by which the matters in conflict were long deemed to have belonged rightfully to the church . |
| 14 | The laughter fled from her eyes as quickly as it had come . |
| 15 | ‘ But then what do these Ministry Inspectors know about education ? ’ resumed the headmaster hastily , discarding doubts as quickly as he had assumed them . |
| 16 | She could hear everyone 's voices quite clearly as she ate , all about someone called Sylvia , who had been truly blessed . |
| 17 | Instead , he did another trick with the steering-wheel , making her lurch forward again as they turned off the road , between a pair of high wrought-iron gates , and headed up a tree-lined gravel driveway towards a fabulous , sprawling , red-roofed villa . |
| 18 | Hence if a registered shareholder , A , first executes a transfer to a purchaser , B , and later to another , C , while both remain unregistered B will have priority over C. If , however , C succeeds in obtaining registration before B , he will have priority over B so long as he had no notice , at the time of purchase , of the transfer to B. If C did have notice , although he has been registered his prima facie title will not prevail over that of B who will be entitled to have the register rectified ( assuming that there are no grounds on which the company could refuse to register B ) and in the meantime C 's legal interest will be subject to the equitable interest of B. If both transfers were gifts , the position would presumably be different ; the gift to B would leave A without any beneficial interest that he could give to C and , not being a ‘ purchaser , ’ C could not obtain priority by registration ; his legal interest , on his becoming the registered holder , would be subject to the prior equity of B. |
| 19 | And all of the family starting to watch the boy more closely as he sailed or forced himself through one limit after the other — a talent , it was beginning to seem , in every pocket . |
| 20 | ‘ Hello , ’ said Mrs. Hennessy , turning off the vacuum cleaner once again as he came into the room . |
| 21 | Knowing the cat as well as she did , Mildred could see that , despite its size , it was frightened out of its wits . |
| 22 | But a great man , a potens , in Charles 's kingdom could quit the scene as completely as he had momentarily seemed to dominate it : if he died leaving only young sons , or no sons at all , or if he moved to another Carolingian kingdom , Charles might redistribute his honores as he put it , voluntarie — " in accordance with my will " . |
| 23 | She could invent hypotheses as often as she sipped her tepid coffee . |
| 24 | Emily sighed heavily , no more would she sit beneath those trees reading or idling away her days so carelessly as she had done , was it only a few short weeks ago ? |
| 25 | By some quirk in her moral fibre , Tamar found nothing incongruous in her tempestuous affair with the groom , caring for Stephen as deeply as she did . |
| 26 | Shearer took the ribbing as philosophically as he took the tackles , then assured anxious witnesses the goals would return . |
| 27 | All the same , the theme is still national honour and personal loyalty , the lessons which Dick teaches to Anastasia as successfully as he had taught them to the weak but responsive Carol . |
| 28 | Men like him were born with charm , exuded sensuality as unthinkingly as they breathed in air . |
| 29 | Despite the elegance , it was a completely masculine presence , and he dominated the room as easily as he had his own office . |
| 30 | On the drive back to London , Quinn was silent as Sam told him the outcome of her trip to Washington and the decision of the White House to let him have his head so long as she went with him . |