Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pron] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not all my imagination , this something came from her as well as from me — a joint umbilical cord , something we dared not speak of , of course , yet which we both knew was there . |
| 2 | These she kept in an ivory box , and the gods ate from them as often as they wished to renew their youth . |
| 3 | Shannon fought against him as hard as she could , but his hands in her hair held her face captive just where he wanted it , and she was pinned to the ground by his weight . |
| 4 | Jackie limped with her as far as the crossroads . |
| 5 | Listening to her heavy breathing and her occasional vigorous sniffs , I could feel her concentration as she followed behind me as surely as a blind bat senses light . |
| 6 | When it was time for Rosie to leave , Ruth walked with her as far as the corner of the street . |
| 7 | I 'm sure that Jack himself ( who did n't really exploit its potential ) would defer to the earlier use of the model by Jet Harris , who recorded with it as early as April 1962 , a few weeks after he had left The Shadows . |
| 8 | Browne had tentatively suggested the summer of that year as the " deadline " for it , but Eliot was uncertain how quickly he could recover his dramatic skills and , since he often needed to work slowly , he believed the spring of 1949 to be a more appropriate date.Throughout the spring and summer of 1948 he worked on it as consistently as he could , although there were egregious interruptions : in April , for example , he had to make the British Council trip to Aix-en-Provence which had been postponed the previous winter . |
| 9 | She shared her home with Irina and me and watched over us as fiercely as if we were her own children . |
| 10 | The smell of oil clung to her as strongly as it did to the rags in the van . |
| 11 | It clung to her as surely as her shadow . |
| 12 | Since he looked after her as carefully as he did the rest , the princess too was happy to share their life in the forest . |
| 13 | Her hand lay in mine as lightly as a bird 's wing . |
| 14 | They stopped just beyond the steps of the food office and , all the irritation seeming to flow from him , he looked at her meekly now as he said , ‘ I may not see you again for weeks . |
| 15 | And Beuno said nothing , but he looked at him as mildly as he looks at the trout that he catches in the stream , and the doctor said , ‘ Until tomorrow ’ , and he left , and Beuno watched him go as mildly as he watches the sheep when he frees them from where they are caught in the hedge . |
| 16 | He looked at her more closely as she poured the stale brownish water from the vase down the sink . |
| 17 | The policy of this council over the last couple of years has been to get down to that figure enforced upon us as gracefully as possible with the least damage to our services and the least damage to the morale of our staff and our staff are after all the most important asset that a local authority possesses and that is what we 're trying to consider . |
| 18 | But she seemed to have got over her momentary embarrassment , so he smiled at her as warmly as he could , and she went away to eat her solitary lunch in the small bed-sitting-room alongside the nursery , which was the only part of the Unit that was n't monitored with cameras and tape recorders . |
| 19 | Nithard wrote of what he and his companions had suffered ; and he wrote for them as well as for Charles — significant evidence for Charles 's own constituency . |
| 20 | I lay on my back and watched it for a second , then got up and ran after her as fast as I could , again just because I knew I could n't catch her . |
| 21 | I ran after him as fast as I could . |
| 22 | I ran towards it as fast as I could — and found an old man with a lantern . |
| 23 | With a shout , I ran at them as hard as I could . |
| 24 | For this Scottish cruise the Board stayed with us as far as Tobermory on the Isle of Mull . |