Example sentences of "[pron] as [adv] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | told that one as well and why , why do oh what 's other one ? |
| 2 | That is precisely what he has done though ‘ vitality ’ is a curious word to apply to something as still and emotionally stifling . |
| 3 | That is precisely what he has done , though ‘ vitality ’ is a curious word to apply to something as still and emotionally stifling . |
| 4 | In fact , in her continuing ‘ effort to be objective ’ , O'Keeffe based more and more of her imagery on observable forms in nature , and she represented them as exactly and precisely as she could . |
| 5 | Use only power cables of the correct capacity for the duty , and run them as neatly and directly as circumstances permit . |
| 6 | ‘ Tell me as simply and quickly as you can , Bernadette , where does Mother Clare think that Eve is today ? ’ |
| 7 | He knew Marshka would destroy him as effortlessly and unthinkingly as shelling peas . |
| 8 | Keep going forward ? attacking all the time ; try to overwhelm him as quickly and finally as possible . |
| 9 | As he came into the room , he realised that she was crying quietly , and he went up to her and put his arms around her as tightly and as reassuringly as possible . |
| 10 | She had taken to her marriage-bed , therefore , a certain natural innocence and all the ignorance considered essential to her station , of which Tristan had relieved her as gently and pleasantly as he had been able , his passion lacking the intensity which might , on those honeymoon nights , have alarmed her ; being , instead , a lighthearted matter , full of the nonchalant reflections of the man himself . |
| 11 | In the 1950s , when the late Heinz Under was presenting Torontonians for the first time with the symphonies of Gustav Mahler in the York Concert Society series in Massey Hall , I will never forget the ecstatic moment , after a dozen tumultuous curtain calls at the end of the Resurrection Symphony , when the elderly maestro lifted the heavy score off the stand — and shook it as vigorously and as high as he was able , in homage to the great composer . |
| 12 | And no matter how the experts argued about the legitimacy of descent through the female line , nevertheless the people recognised no bar , and the council had accepted it as just and right when Richard , in view of his childlessness , had been urged to name his heir presumptive , and had named Philippa 's elder son , Roger , earl of March . |
| 13 | Lord Mansfield , the First Commissioner for the Crown Estate , welcomed the change , describing it as just and fair . |
| 14 | When our children grow up , we no longer make the decisions for them , but accept the decisions they make for themselves and their own families , and we must do it as constructively and cheerfully as we can . |
| 15 | The heart of the matter is the provision of a physical and social environment through which the members of society may gradually withdraw from it as securely and as worthily as they enter it through the environment of home and education . |
| 16 | The chief responsibility of the keeper 's council was to keep the king supplied with necessary cash , but no amount of good will and effort on their part could have produced it as promptly and as copiously as the king 's needs demanded . |
| 17 | Unlike traditional documentary , the authority of voice-over was replaced with the autobiographical discourse of women talking on camera about themselves as simply and directly as possible . |