Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] as [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ If this is what comes of quoting silly old proverbs , ’ Laura grinned over at her husband , who had n't recovered from the birth nearly as quickly as she had , ‘ I think that we 'd better be very careful what we say in the future ! ’ |
| 32 | So it 's jargon , it 's assuming people will pick things up as quickly as we have and it 's not recognising that people have different interpretations . |
| 33 | He must have grown up now just as she had done . |
| 34 | As a result , by the end of the decade , output per person in manufacturing was half as much again as it had been at the start of the decade . |
| 35 | The knowledge that the larger margin was there for the taking , if you were bold enough to seize it , exercised him as much now as it had done back in 1973 . |
| 36 | All in all it was not turning out as badly as he had feared . |
| 37 | Having her father with them on holiday was going to turn out as disastrously as she had expected . |
| 38 | The school parties stuck as rigidly together as they had done upon Victoria Station , lacking only their uniforms and labels , disastrously hampered by lack of space . |
| 39 | Simon stayed at home working for the Bar Examination , he passed the first part quite soon just as he had predicted . |
| 40 | He took Sotheby 's into the art financing business , and directed staff to cultivate potential buyers at least as carefully as they had hitherto cultivated sellers . |
| 41 | Once returns began to grow and disillusion amongst consumers had set in , the new players began to withdraw from the market almost as quickly as they had entered . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | Nigel 's novel was not doing quite as well as he had hoped . |
| 44 | ‘ 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 . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | We knew Souness would want his own set of players and that he 'd shift people in and out very quickly just as he had in Scotland . |