Example sentences of "[adv] as [adv] [subord] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mandy , her battle-lust having died down as quickly as it had set in , flopped down on Charity 's bed , and patted the spot beside her . |
| 2 | the affair blew over as quickly as it had begun , for Bayley removed his sons from the School at the end of the Summer Term . |
| 3 | It melted as it fell , but not as fast as it fell . |
| 4 | Protectionist policies , designed to deal with unemployment , temporarily ended the rule of the Conservative Party at the end of 1923 just as surely as it helped the Conservative Party to political dominance in the 1930s . |
| 5 | And yet … there had been a moment when Dane 's undeniable magnetism had reached out to her , too , ensnaring her in its thrall just as surely as it captured every other female . |
| 6 | Now that the rush of anger had abated just as quickly as it had risen she felt cold , icy tremors rippling along her veins . |
| 7 | The mortaring stopped just as suddenly as it had started , and it was quiet again . |
| 8 | Then , just as suddenly as it had appeared , it dived , sliding back into the earth at an immense speed . |
| 9 | But just as suddenly as it had begun all this ended three years later , leaving the halls deserted . |
| 10 | I heard screams of anguish , then the attack faded away as suddenly as it came . |
| 11 | The French boat slipped away as silently as it had arrived . |
| 12 | Then it cut off as suddenly as it had started . |
| 13 | The cloudburst switched itself off as abruptly as it had started , and the moon , peering momentarily out from an ink-black cloudscape , showed a coastal desert of pure white sand backed by low hills of chemical-green and violent reds , cactus everywhere and trucks parked on the dirt verge , most of them painted in livid crimson on white — Optimista , Primero de Mayo , La Virgen . |
| 14 | Although the landscape did not disappoint me nearly as severely as it did Johnson — subsequent farmers have grown many trees , and in the distance a great house still touches the sky — Monboddo may no longer be considered a classical Scottish fortified house . |
| 15 | Nor have prices gone up as fast as it predicted . |
| 16 | So that was all right as far as it went . |
| 17 | This was all right as far as it went . |
| 18 | The tide went out as fast as it came in , and it was not unusual for large fish to be stranded in one of the various sized lakes left behind in the sand hollows . |
| 19 | This was , of course , true as far as it went . |
| 20 | Saudi Arabia has stockpiled close to 30m barrels of the stuff during the first quarter of 1989 ; Iran has been busy filling European storage tanks ; Saudi , Kuwaiti and Iraqi oil has been pouring into America almost as fast as it did in December . |
| 21 | Why did he spend his life making films that would be forgotten almost as quickly as it took to make them ? |
| 22 | The plant died off almost as quickly as it grew . |
| 23 | It revealed something she would never have associated with the man whose ironic half-smile appeared in tabloid gossip columns almost as often as it did in yachting magazines . |
| 24 | Below right : Brabham BT55 used lie-flat BMW turbo and was knee-high to a grasshopper , but was never half as fast as it looked |