Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] as [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made my exit as discreetly as possible just as his lordship , still on his feet , was embarking on a further point . |
| 2 | ‘ But it is n't , ’ she cried , frantic now as her words brought home the enormity of what was happening . |
| 3 | Changes in social and commercial conditions , and changes in the moral values of the community , mean that the Courts will not always find the same reasons for the enforcement of promises to be good today as their forbears did ; equally it is likely that they will often find good reasons for the enforcement of promises where their predecessors did not . |
| 4 | Instead of being nearly square uprights they have a length almost half as great again as their height , which is nearly two feet ; the triglyphs apparently stood only over the columns , not between . |
| 5 | It was as familiar almost as my own , but I could n't pin a face to it . |
| 6 | They might have become becalmed there as their heads ballooned with the drink but the Duke told his piper to rouse their feet with a steady march , ‘ Murdo Mackenzie of Torridon ’ , and they headed off downstream towards Grandtully past the standing stone , the quiet watcher , while damp black shadow massed in the river-channel as though the night came from there . |
| 7 | Scums defence is as dodgy now as its been for 3–4 years . |