Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] as [pers pn] [verb] " 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 | The canyon walls came close together as they rode in gathering darkness . |
| 15 | AS the January flood waters receded as fast as they had risen , many questions were left unanswered . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Her tears dried as suddenly as they had appeared . |
| 18 | She drove as fast as she dared past the Jardin Anglais and at last swung out on to the Quai Gustav Ador . |
| 19 | They came as quickly as they went . |
| 20 | We played as well as we 've played all season last weekend and a match like this is the best way to end our league season , ’ said coach Tommy Dowens . |
| 21 | Macca played as well as I 've seen in the first twenty minutes . |
| 22 | Angel had never had a lesson ; he played as naturally as he walked . |
| 23 | Griffith 's breakthrough came almost accidentally as he attempted to forge a career in a new industry about which he knew little . |
| 24 | Steve asked once again as they headed out of Palma , taking the same route Ruth had returned to Palma by — the quickest route . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The girls hurriedly departed , and the bouncer withdrew as quickly as he had appeared . |
| 27 | As the man withdrew as silently as he had arrived , Joan was surprised to find herself alone with the young king . |
| 28 | With Mark Hughes stepping into the centre-back role , Tranmere defended as well as they have all season , restricting Leicester to a smattering of half chances . |
| 29 | There was over an hour left when Malcolm came in , and had some of the others defended as well as he did the game might have been saved . |
| 30 | The shrieking sent shivers up Tallis 's spine , and Wyn-rajathuk paled even more as he straightened and stared , alarmed , through the lodge walls , towards the mortuary hill . |