Example sentences of "[adv] carefully as if " in BNC.
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| 1 | The buzzard flew to the king 's palace , waited , perching in an oak tree , until the princess came out for her evening stroll , and then picked her up and carried her back to the forest , holding her as carefully as if she were made of rose petals . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Although she knew that he would n't wake , she turned the handle of the door as carefully as if expecting it to explode . |
| 4 | He had taken a sample of blood from the plump flaccid arm , feeling for the vein as carefully as if she could still flinch at the needle 's prick . |
| 5 | Yet he deposited her on it as carefully as if she were china , and that brought a weak tear to her eye . |