Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | She rather patronized him , but he was impervious to that ; it amused him — he was not unsubtle , Mr James says , but did n't bother to show it — he was amused by her American independence which served him just as well as Italian docility . |
| 2 | Thacker enjoyed the entertainment for a full forty seconds , then stooped and pulled them apart as easily as if they were two bits of cotton fluff stuck together . |
| 3 | The knowledge that the larger margin was there for the taking , if you were bold enough to seize it , exercised him as much now as it had done back in 1973 . |
| 4 | For that matter , he 'd seen that loft being put together , knew it almost as well as that self-opinionated young architect had . |
| 5 | She knew it almost as well as she knew London . |
| 6 | She dressed me just as finely as them , and I was sent to a very expensive school . |
| 7 | I made myself scarce as quickly as I could . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I pushed him again as hard as I could and ran for the door . |
| 10 | I felt and slid my arms under Harry 's and with my feet slipping on the muddy bottom yanked him upwards as fiercely as I could and found him still stuck and yanked again twice more with increasing desperation until finally whatever had been holding him released its grasp and he came shooting to the surface , only to begin falling sluggishly back again as a dead weight . |