Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] as [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 Granpa clapped so loud as I returned to my place that some of the mums looked round and smiled , which made the old fellow even more determined to see that I stayed on at school until I was fourteen .
2 She darted past him and opened the door that led to the store-room , then helped somewhat ineffectually as he dragged the mattress through and hefted it on to a stack of boxes .
3 Dandelion swam as well as he ran , swiftly and easily .
4 Robbie 's colour fled as rapidly as it had appeared , leaving her face ashen with anger .
5 He was really playing great tennis , ’ McEnroe conceded , ‘ I did n't realise he moved as well as he did .
6 Hardly able to see a hand in front of her , but refusing to be daunted , Luce moved as fast as she dared down an alley-way little more than a metre wide .
7 He stopped as abruptly as he had begun .
8 He broke off , repeated a passage , and then stopped as abruptly as he had begun .
9 He stopped as abruptly as she had done .
10 His laughter stopped as quickly as it had begun .
11 The bombs stopped as suddenly as they started but the hollow screams of anti-aircraft shells continued without pause .
12 I was buried alive , the pummelling stopped as suddenly as it had started , I heaved myself up and the earth and muck fell off me .
13 The thirteen men moved closer together as they rode on .
14 John Coffin came in just as she took a sip .
15 Sorry I took so long , but a customer came in just as you darted off . ’
16 The climb rate dropped off noticeably as we reached maximum manifold height for the day and the lack of turbo-charging showed .
17 The canyon walls came close together as they rode in gathering darkness .
18 And then , for the first time ever in my life , I what I normally do is I have sort of maybe some questions that I definitely pre-plan and if I 'm lucky one or two of them , and this paper all three of my prepared questions actually came up exactly as I 'd worded them , or near enough .
19 AS the January flood waters receded as fast as they had risen , many questions were left unanswered .
20 Toiling up the slope from Falmer railway station , you had the Kafkaesque sensation of walking into an endlessly deep stage set where apparently three-dimensional objects turned out to be painted flats , and reality receded as fast as you pursued it .
21 Her tears dried as suddenly as they had appeared .
22 She drove as fast as she dared past the Jardin Anglais and at last swung out on to the Quai Gustav Ador .
23 They came as quickly as they went .
24 Angel had never had a lesson ; he played as naturally as he walked .
25 We had misty rain as we started out but the sun came out just as we got to the rapids .
26 As far as the conglomerate departments were concerned , I think those came about broadly as we intended .
27 Griffith 's breakthrough came almost accidentally as he attempted to forge a career in a new industry about which he knew little .
28 Steve asked once again as they headed out of Palma , taking the same route Ruth had returned to Palma by — the quickest route .
29 The tears flowed more freely as I bowed my head and the shame and repentance and the wonderful joy of salvation mixed their ingredients in my soul .
30 The girls hurriedly departed , and the bouncer withdrew as quickly as he had appeared .
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