Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] as he [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | It 'll be all right soon as he gets it . ’ |
2 | It falls foul of one of the cardinal principles of the law of trusts : the principle of benefit , which states that a person can be validly appointed a trustee only so far as he has received benefits intended by the settlor under the settlor 's will . |
3 | Paul wriggled , and the look on his face seemed to indicate that he would n't actually mind wasting anything , just so long as he got to hit the bell with his plank of wood . |
4 | In the sonnet just quoted , for instance , Shakespeare presents the Poet in a humiliating situation , indifferent to the behaviour of the Mistress with other men just so long as he gets some share of the action . |
5 | ‘ A good governor does as he pleases on his world , just so long as he pays his tithes in treasure and people . |
6 | But John , he noticed , tended to wander outside as often as he felt tempted to do ; while Astorre had set up house quite candidly in the kitchens . |
7 | He felt just as strongly as he had the night before . |
8 | Once we had worked together to help him regain his faith , he was able to go on to play just as well as he had done before ; indeed , now that he had remembered the feeling of success , he was able to play even better . |
9 | ‘ He killed Robin just as surely as he murdered Marion . |
10 | When Dad joined us Albert greeted him just as pleasantly as he had me , and I thought at least they 're all happy this morning . |
11 | The old Bishop waited for the little murmur of sympathetic approval that ran through the ranks , and they listened just as sympathetically as he rambled on into the usual pious platitudes that ended his eulogy . |
12 | Then , just as suddenly as he had appeared , the man turned and ran off . |
13 | Then , just as suddenly as he had stopped , the male was off again , perking up his feathers and hopping after his mate with a meaningful glint in his beady eyes . |
14 | Her hands slid up his chest , her fingers uncurling against the hard wall of muscle , tracing every strong lean line until they brushed against the warm skin of his throat , then slid on to draw his head back down while she kissed him just as tenderly , just as achingly as he had kissed her . |
15 | He relaxed his roly-poly figure in the cart and let his piebald pony , who knew the way home as well as he did , trot ahead through the darkness of the berry-lined road . |
16 | Baldwin was to undermine the radical right as effectively as he disarmed the left in the inter-war period . |
17 | Well He does n't get them quite as frequently now though as he did . |
18 | Simon stayed at home working for the Bar Examination , he passed the first part quite soon just as he had predicted . |
19 | and Graham was hardly ever directly involved — he had , for example , only ever met one of Slater 's ( supposedly many ) lovers , at least as far as he knew . |
20 | Memories of shared evenings , with cans of beer and football on the TV , flooded back to Bodie ; shared hours with Ray Doyle , mad pursuits , of cars , of women , shared jokes , anger , support ; he knew this small apartment almost as well as he knew his own . |
21 | A voice that Rex knew almost as well as he knew his own . |
22 | He knew that face almost as well as he knew his own . |
23 | Throughout the round Alliss hit the ball almost as well as he did during a competitive career in which he won 23 Tour titles and represented Britain and Ireland eight times in the Ryder Cup . |
24 | Jackson , who is to give two sell-out concerts at the gigantic Fukuoka Dome on Friday and Saturday , left town almost as fast as he entered it . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | Nigel 's novel was not doing quite as well as he had hoped . |
27 | ‘ 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 . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | 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 . |