Example sentences of "[adv] casually as " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we approached Tromsø the snow grew thicker and Nathan asked , as casually as he could manage , whether they would clear the runway . |
| 2 | Granted the intriguing premise , one might reasonably expect some attempt to probe the morality of a privatised police force , and of a society which allows someone like Kuffs to buy and use firearms as casually as he does here , but no . |
| 3 | Linda , Christy , Cindy , Claudia , Yasmeen , Naomi ; their names are dropped as casually as cigarette butts in a pavement cafe . |
| 4 | He was aware of making an effort to pass this question off as casually as possible and thereby knew he had failed . |
| 5 | ‘ And Cy rides Shine On in Tokyo , ’ she said as casually as she could manage . |
| 6 | Then she said as casually as if the previous conversation had been trivial small talk which was already half forgotten : ‘ What about next Sunday ? |
| 7 | After the interview I mentioned as casually as I could that as a result of blocked sinuses I had lost my sense of smell ( with the exceptions of petrol , laundry and excrement ) for years , and could he think of any way of restoring it ? |
| 8 | There was nothing more to see in Main Street except the eternal fascination of boats bobbing in water as we set off past the ship 's chandler — and behind , as casually as an oak or a beech tree in England , dozens of the orange trees which had given the town of Anani its name . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , I 'm sorry , I was looking for the loo , ’ I said as casually as I could . |
| 10 | That vast tracts can be bought and sold as casually as a loaf of bread is immoral . |
| 11 | And then she added , as casually as possible , ‘ Grey with sort of black markings . |
| 12 | And then Molly plucked up her courage to say , as casually as she could , ‘ I wonder why the advertisement did n't tell me what dress to wear . ’ |
| 13 | He was resting his huge hand on June 's angled knee as casually as if it were the arm of a chair . |
| 14 | ‘ What shall we do this afternoon ? ’ he asked as casually as if they spent all their Wednesday afternoons together . |
| 15 | He took a sandwich as casually as he could , covering the embarrassment of his capitulation by asking : ‘ What were those foreign words you said a moment ago ? ’ |
| 16 | She posed the question as casually as possible but the school teacher recognised its significance . |
| 17 | Mrs Blakey asked as casually as she could , pushing a packet of wafer biscuits towards Kate . |
| 18 | It was vaguely insulting to know that he treated her as casually as he would have treated any stranger with whom he found himself forced to share a house . |
| 19 | One afternoon I summoned up my courage and as casually as I could I invited him for a drink after work that evening . |
| 20 | She usually waves goodbye to men as casually as she greets them , but this time she is hooked . |
| 21 | ‘ I was up in Oxford at the beginning of this week , ’ she said , as casually as she could . |
| 22 | Luce asked as casually as possible . |
| 23 | ‘ All right , ’ she said , as casually as she could manage . |
| 24 | He was so handsome , and dressed as casually as she was , in trim-fitting chino trousers and tweed jacket worn open over a cotton-knit shirt . |