Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] as [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 If you eat more on some days and less on others , you will shed weight just as successfully as if you stuck to the same number of calories each day .
2 The battery in your readers equipment could be a NiCad and it would be ruined if he had left it on , just as surely as if it had been a lead acid battery .
3 She giggled when his second attempt ended in the same way , and when he grasped her in a great bear hug , she was able to slip away as easily as if it were a child holding her .
4 Apart from being baked hard by the heat of the lava , these sediments were quite undisturbed , and had been carried bodily as smoothly as if they had gone up in a lift .
5 And the buzzard , who had been waiting hidden in the branches of- an oak tree , swooped down , picked her up as carefully as if she were made of rose petals , and carried her back to the forest .
6 With a final darting glance to ensure that her appearance was in order she made her way as nervously downstairs as if it had been she herself about to marry .
7 Jessamy jumped back as quickly as if she had been shot .
8 She dimly saw Aunt Emily by the fire and the silver tea service winked on a table beside her , and there , in front of the fire , standing there as comfortably as if it were his own fire , she saw with no surprise at all , that it was Michael Swinton .
9 Thacker enjoyed the entertainment for a full forty seconds , then stooped and pulled them apart as easily as if they were two bits of cotton fluff stuck together .
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