Example sentences of "[adv] as [pron] [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But just as suddenly as it had begun all this ended three years later , leaving the halls deserted . |
| 2 | And yet , as carelessly as he had discarded this coat , he had deliberately destroyed her hopes and her dreams . |
| 3 | Bad industrial relations had been the curse of the country for as long as I had taken any interest in politics ; although the reform of trade union law was essential , further steps were also needed . |
| 4 | Little by little the Grants began to do more things together as they came to trust each other , and to find enjoyment in each other 's company . |
| 5 | Britain 's economic problems added to the sensitivity of her leaders , and to the conviction that the Americans were trying to undermine the British Empire just as they had destroyed that of the Dutch in Indonesia in the late 1940s . |
| 6 | The ‘ Legitimist ’ nobility , that is those who remained loyal to the elder Bourbon branch which had been deposed by the Revolution of 1830 , kept itself aloof from the court of the ‘ parvenu ’ , just as it had shunned that of Louis-Philippe . |
| 7 | Gregory seems to have confused the chronology of events in the 520s and 530s , just as he had muddied that of the two previous decades . |
| 8 | Just as she had imagined that concerned endearment after the fight on the riverbank . |
| 9 | Just as she had to accept that , for her , it would never be enough . |
| 10 | As soon as we 'd packed all the stuff in the ba van we 'd have the rest of the sandwiches the rest of the coffee or another cup of coffee and then we 'd get on the road and even if we 'd got back for four , by the time we 'd got home and , and had something to eat or if we did n't want nothing to eat , watched the telly for half an hour and get to bed , you 've got from eleven till sort of three or four the next day which is just nice because you 're in your own home |
| 11 | As soon as she had announced this fact , she pushed past him roughly , on her way to the kitchen . |
| 12 | He had every intention of getting the hell out of Paris just as soon as he had collected all the money owed to him . |
| 13 | As soon as he had apprehended any kidnappers , the state prosecutor moved in on the hostages and he never saw them again . |
| 14 | As soon as I had seen this reading of the phrase it at once seemed more plausible . |
| 15 | As soon as I had read this , I asked Mr Edgar if I could take a message from him to his sister . |
| 16 | And as soon as I had admitted this , it suddenly seemed despicable to me . |
| 17 | Jonathon knew he had less than two miles to go and that his faithful horse would trudge him home as he had done many times before . |
| 18 | Everything in Fabia cried out as she started to panic that Ven might yet hit on the truth of her love for him . |
| 19 | She sat and ate it with them now , and oh , it was torture that in deference to propriety and Matey they had not made love again as they had done that golden afternoon , always to be remembered . |
| 20 | ‘ But I was cautious about it too as I 'd seen both sides — the periods of unemployment as well as the glossy side of my father being in something so popular like Howards ' Way . ’ |