Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] as [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Colonel was used to acting in loco parentis and would certainly not have responded as warmly as he had done to Miss Danziger 's maturity had he not discerned in it a vulnerability : something he could defend . |
| 2 | If I had left it on the night flying path I would have had a serious rocket which I would not have forgotten as easily as I had forgotten the first one — from the wing commander flying . |
| 3 | It had been forgotten as quickly as it had begun . |
| 4 | The latter had vanished as punctually as he had appeared . |
| 5 | The expression of good-humoured contempt had vanished as quickly as it had appeared , and suddenly Rostov realised that he had missed an opportunity to relax the tension which existed between them . |
| 6 | But they also dislike those who were born into the same station in life , or further down , and who have n't risen as far as they have . |
| 7 | They , you , are our inspiration , the reason we 've come as far and done as well as we have , the energy that drives us forward into the future . |
| 8 | If my readers still doubt this let them consider the situation as we find it among societies which have not advanced as far as we have , for instance , among the aborigines of Central Australia . |
| 9 | but , er , I do n't think they 've got as far as yours have |
| 10 | Yes so lots of games for United to play at the moment with the postponements , a lot of mid-week games , a lot of games up here at the Manor , but erm as so often happens with United , after a good performance or a little a good run , they never quite do it at home do they , they never quite kill sides off and they draw in games that they 've played very well as they have done today . |
| 11 | The embankments which he had vainly tried to have reinforced by the zemindars would now be brimming and beginning to overflow … within a few hours the country around the embankments would be flooded and ignorance , stupidity and superstition would have triumphed once more as they have triumphed again and again in human affairs since time began ! |
| 12 | One afternoon a nurserymaid from the castle had appeared with Richard , and her distress had melted as quickly as it had grown . |
| 13 | Lacuna 's anger had disappeared as suddenly as it had arrived . |
| 14 | It was summer , and he walked around the beautiful gardens alone , admiring the beds of shrub-roses which had been laid out here as they had been in Josephine Bonaparte 's gardens at Malmaison . |
| 15 | Dysart nodded , considered the point for a moment then said : ‘ Some might say it was a sign she had n't recovered as well as we 'd hoped . ’ |
| 16 | They were gone as suddenly as they had come . |
| 17 | I asked Toby why he thought John had reacted as violently as he had to the whole business of our falling in love . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've never eaten as well as I have on this trip . ’ |
| 19 | And there at Stamford , the beautiful town that Celia Fiennes and Defoe had admired so much remained almost exactly as they had seen it : but fossilised , moribund . |
| 20 | The pain had left as suddenly as it had come , except for a small reminder in her back . |
| 21 | Potential inferences which were disconfirmed by a later statement were invariably rejected , and inferences which were neither confirmed nor disconfirmed were falsely identified as often as they had been in the neutral condition . |
| 22 | When light dawned , both sides looked very foolish , and made a treaty that everything should be put back exactly as it had been . ’ |
| 23 | The light was extinguished as quickly as it had come , and her shoulders curled with disappointment . |
| 24 | Over the millennia , cultures have changed very substantially as they have learned to cope with environmental vicissitudes . |