Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] as they had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then deaths declined steeply as mysteriously as they had increased . |
| 2 | Then , just as suddenly as they had grabbed at his throat , the hands released his windpipe and the weight lifted off him . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The factories on the east bank of the Medway were even worse off as they had no direct railway outlet and also a poor road system . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |