Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adv] as [conj] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just a frail little thing , was n't she , the wind could have picked her up and tossed her away , yet she had demolished him as surely as if she had wielded a pick-axe handle to his belly . |
| 2 | He stood back to look down the line of her figure under the flimsy nightgown , his eyes caressing her as blatantly as if she had been naked . |
| 3 | Carrying her as easily as if she were made of feathers , Dane strode out towards the cottage . |
| 4 | The buzzard flew to the king 's palace , waited , perching in an oak tree , until the princess came out for her evening stroll , and then picked her up and carried her back to the forest , holding her as carefully as if she were made of rose petals . |
| 5 | With his eyes closed he could see her as clearly as if she were standing in front of him . |
| 6 | He released her , his fingers still loosely in the escaped strands of her hair , staring at her as blankly as if she were some phantom being from another incarnation , a mythical seductress beamed unexpectedly into the passenger seat of his car . |
| 7 | She instructed him to wash her , and was surprised when he soaped her as gently as if she was a baby . |
| 8 | Yet he deposited her on it as carefully as if she were china , and that brought a weak tear to her eye . |