Example sentences of "look [prep] [pron] as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I propose to devote a whole chapter to so-called ‘ association copies ’ , partly for the selfish reason that I am myself devoted to them and partly because , looking at them as objectively as I can , they seem to me to offer one of the most satisfying branches of book-collecting , especially to anyone with the slightest sense of history . |
| 2 | When Matthew and I adopted you three years ago , we decided to look after you as well as we could . |
| 3 | If it is to save us , we must look at it as clearly as we should learn to look at death . |
| 4 | Since he looked after her as carefully as he did the rest , the princess too was happy to share their life in the forest . |
| 5 | 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 . |