Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pron] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd found herself on the receiving end of a great deal of teasing about her impromptu topless dip in the sea and her valiant rescuer , and she 'd fenced it as calmly as she could . |
| 2 | There 'd been neither sight nor sound of James since that fateful day and no doubt he had forgotten her as quickly as he had taken her , but he must be told there was going to be a child . |
| 3 | Just a frail little thing , was n't she , the wind could have picked her up and tossed her away , yet she had demolished him as surely as if she had wielded a pick-axe handle to his belly . |
| 4 | Fate had got him as far as a leading Sheffield estate agents , Blundells . |
| 5 | The absurd thoughts had got her as far as the foot of that horrible stairway , then she had felt the level floor of another passage beneath her feet . |
| 6 | As he watched , I started to drag away the old door that had served us so well as foot-stopper . |
| 7 | They had monitored him as far as Poverty Row , then the Dream had upside-downed . |
| 8 | I could sense Lili turning her head to look at me , but the urge to talk , to confess , had left me as suddenly as it had come . |
| 9 | It was as if they had left it as late as possible to take maximum advantage of credit . |
| 10 | He had groomed himself as best as he could for the interview . |
| 11 | Her mother had taken her downstairs so as not to disturb the rest of the family . |
| 12 | In the north , the German advance from East Prussia had taken them as far as Windau , near the Gulf of Riga . |
| 13 | Yet even though Daniel had spread himself as far as he could , including making himself a primitive chapel out of an east-facing bedroom , there was still a good deal of vicarage left over . |
| 14 | Those who preached the crusade dwelt on the significance of Jerusalem and on the death of Jesus , and so roused men to fervour against the Jews who had killed him as well as against the Muslims who had captured his tomb ; and apocalyptic notions of the time associated the conversion or elimination of the Jews with the liberation of Jerusalem , as a necessary prelude to the end of the world . |
| 15 | I kept telling myself that I had killed her — had killed her as surely as if my own hands had sent her plunging down into the muddy waters of the Thames . |
| 16 | The air carrier had returned him as quickly as possible . |