Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] gently as " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stood back and watched him approach the three headstones , saw him touch them as gently as she had known he would . |
| 2 | When I asked why , she tried to tell me as gently as she could , but I did n't understand — ‘ Your Pop comes into our room at night . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ There , ’ said Penry , putting her aside gently as he prepared to pilot the Angharad into her anchorage . |
| 4 | Mozart , knowing that his father would be devastated by the news , sought to prepare him as gently as possible for it by writing to him that she was gravely ill and at the same time writing to their close friend , Bullinger , telling him the whole story , in the hope that Bullinger could support and comfort his father and sister when he finally broke the news to them , which he was intending to do in a second letter to his father . |
| 5 | She instructed him to wash her , and was surprised when he soaped her as gently as if she was a baby . |
| 6 | she decided to put an end to it as gently as possible . |