Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pron] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I dismissed him as quickly as I could and later found that he had gone to drink himself into a drunken stupor . |
| 2 | Put on my mettle , I told them as simply as I could of how Tony , Poll and Doreen had made their ‘ Feast ’ , burying their doll ( I substituted doll for scouter ) and covering the mound with flowers ; and how , at the end , as a simple token of courtesy or affection , Tony had presented his penis for Doreen 's pleasure . |
| 3 | I imagined it as clearly as one could , to the point where I was ready to go out and buy my burial outfit . ’ |
| 4 | I killed her as surely as if I had stabbed her with a knife , shot her with a gun , squeezed her neck between my hands . |
| 5 | I watched him as far as the corner of the curator 's garden , and saw him turn in alongside the hedge . |
| 6 | I treated her rotten whilst I was studying like I would n't take time off studying to go and see her or phone her when I saw her as often as I could , every weekend |
| 7 | I saw him as often as I could and at first we concentrated on his anger . |
| 8 | I liked them very much as soon as I met them , that very damp Sunday afternoon . |
| 9 | It made a high arc , vanishing against the sun as she flung it as far as she could . |
| 10 | He had asked her what was happening and she told him as truthfully as possible . |
| 11 | ‘ I have n't any serious plans to marry him , if that 's what you 're asking , ’ she told him as levelly as she could , and had the hardest work in the world in hanging on to her temper when his glance flicked from her through the open door into her sitting-room . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm not saying kissing you was n't quite pleasant , as kisses go , ’ she informed him as calmly as she could , desperately trying to disguise the way her heart was pounding with fear as she recalled her reactions to that kiss . |
| 13 | She hid it away quickly as I entered the room . |
| 14 | Moving her arms to his neck , she clasped him as tight as she could and gave him back kiss for kiss . |
| 15 | Drawing back her arm , she hit him as hard as she could across the face . |
| 16 | ‘ Russell laughed , and we all laughed : she knew him as well as that . |
| 17 | She saw him again briefly as she helped herself to food . |
| 18 | Until then , she accepted it as graciously as she could for necessities only , much to her father 's irritation … |
| 19 | No you did n't , you said you wanted it as soon as possible , and so far , I 'm afraid , it just has n't been possible . |
| 20 | No you did n't , you just said you wanted it as soon as possible , and so far I 'm afraid it just has n't been possible . |
| 21 | She pushed herself away again as soon as the lights came on , shook her head . |
| 22 | His fingers slipped between her thighs as she parted them as eagerly as a girl whose lover had returned from the wars . |
| 23 | We followed him as quietly as we could . |
| 24 | The cloth for their suits was cord ( corduroy ) , as I 've told you ; but sometimes they went in for a suit of heavy tweed — staple tweed it was called ; and at that time they made it as hard as a board . |
| 25 | They drove us as far as the mud roads would allow in the royal land-rover , and down to the bay where a pearl-oyster hatchery was being tried for the first time ; and at night there were more festivities , and endless delectable maidens vying for our attentions … |
| 26 | The man who 's watching him followed him as near as possible to the mountain the first time but he could n't go any further without being seen — the same problem we had with Scano 's boy yesterday . |
| 27 | It gave me a temporary Equity card — mind you they took it away again as soon as I had done the four weeks work . |
| 28 | I was up till three o'clock in the morning , very often , getting these prepared because they wanted them as quickly as possible , you know and er er it was the same when I , I do n't know when |
| 29 | At last , with greasy fingers , she managed to guide him to her saturated hole , and he penetrated her as easily as her own fingers did when she masturbated . |
| 30 | He hated it especially now as he dragged it out of its corner in the garage , squeezed it between his Vauxhall Viva estate car and the twins ' tricycles , and rolled it on to the uneven surface in front of the garage doors . |