Example sentences of "[adv] as [adv] as he have " in BNC.

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1 He felt just as strongly as he had the night before .
2 Once we had worked together to help him regain his faith , he was able to go on to play just as well as he had done before ; indeed , now that he had remembered the feeling of success , he was able to play even better .
3 When Dad joined us Albert greeted him just as pleasantly as he had me , and I thought at least they 're all happy this morning .
4 Then , just as suddenly as he had appeared , the man turned and ran off .
5 Then , just as suddenly as he had stopped , the male was off again , perking up his feathers and hopping after his mate with a meaningful glint in his beady eyes .
6 Her hands slid up his chest , her fingers uncurling against the hard wall of muscle , tracing every strong lean line until they brushed against the warm skin of his throat , then slid on to draw his head back down while she kissed him just as tenderly , just as achingly as he had kissed her .
7 All in all it was not turning out as badly as he had feared .
8 The linesman called it wide — Australian umpire Wayne Mckewan , who had been forced to demand ‘ Silence , s'il vous plaît ’ , almost as often as he had needed to call the score , agreed — and Forget not only lost this point but the next two as well to be 15–40 .
9 Nigel 's novel was not doing quite as well as he had hoped .
10 ‘ It — er — depends how — um — busy Barney is , ’ she made up as she went along , and with relief was let off the hook a little while her mother commented on how hard Barney worked , and how , if he could n't take his holiday quite as early as he 'd planned , that perhaps it might be a good idea for Cara to stay touring with her , and maybe take a plane to America from Czechoslovakia .
11 When he had finished the mandarin disappeared again as silently as he had come , and Joseph saw the emperor take a rolled Chinese scroll from one of his sleeves .
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