Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One in Devon has 70 members and is carried on much as when it was founded in 1799 . |
| 2 | It was slightly damp not in patches but all over as if it had been soaked in water then wrung out and left to dry through the night . |
| 3 | Have you ever seen things so clearly as when you were first in love ? |
| 4 | With a final darting glance to ensure that her appearance was in order she made her way as nervously downstairs as if it had been she herself about to marry . |
| 5 | Not really as though you 'd know it ! |
| 6 | His wrinkled face creased more deeply as though he were smiling . |
| 7 | and she says she 's still as bad off now as when she went in to get the house , you know the five thousand odd , she 's would , she 's , she 's , I had a bit last , I , I wished you had it all , I said do n't lie , I said do n't tell me you have n't had it I says cos you have , she says yeah , I says what you done with it ? |
| 8 | ‘ They 'll manage without you , ’ said Juliet , and went into the ward , striding confidently along as though she belonged there . |
| 9 | He took no part in the digging but squatted on the edge of the ditch , fidgeting backwards and forwards , sometimes nibbling and then starting up suddenly as though he could hear some sound in the wood . |
| 10 | He held it up triumphantly as though it were a trophy then knelt beside the nearest keg and traced his finger around the seal of the small bung . |
| 11 | Individualised programmes , alternative activities and simplified worksheets , when they are directed at certain children can cut them off from their peers as effectively as if they had been withdrawn . |
| 12 | If he played golf as badly as that he 'd pack it in . |
| 13 | He stood back to look down the line of her figure under the flimsy nightgown , his eyes caressing her as blatantly as if she had been naked . |
| 14 | If you eat more on some days and less on others , you will shed weight just as successfully as if you stuck to the same number of calories each day . |
| 15 | She instructed him to wash her , and was surprised when he soaped her as gently as if she was a baby . |
| 16 | When they had reached St Matthew 's church he had followed her inside as naturally as if they had set out together that morning . |
| 17 | He had carried her in his arms as naturally as if he had been doing so for years , and she had felt right there . |
| 18 | They believe me , Connelly thought as he tried to suck in breath , tasting the rancid atmosphere as thickly as if it were smoke . |
| 19 | Her garments were removed as swiftly as if she 'd done it herself . |
| 20 | Some of his oldest friends , who for years had been accustomed to seeing him , fat and genial , as the leading light of a pig-sticking expedition , were astonished to hear him now holding forth like a veritable Newton or Faraday and discussing the latest discoveries in medicine as fluently as if they were entries in the Bengal Club Cup or the Planters ' Handicap . |
| 21 | She shared her home with Irina and me and watched over us as fiercely as if we were her own children . |
| 22 | She dimly saw Aunt Emily by the fire and the silver tea service winked on a table beside her , and there , in front of the fire , standing there as comfortably as if it were his own fire , she saw with no surprise at all , that it was Michael Swinton . |
| 23 | Ellen twisted away and Sweetman laughed at her obvious discomfiture , then , as coolly as though he owned Wavebreaker , he stepped down into the central cockpit where he first brushed at , then sat on , one of the white cushioned seats by the ship 's wheel . |
| 24 | Ray Shepherd looked up at them as coolly as if he had just driven in to work on a routine day . |
| 25 | When they reached her floor eventually , she bade him a perfunctory farewell and stepped out of the lift with a feeling of release , hurrying towards her apartment , heart and hormones defeating any intention of greeting Luke 's arrival as coolly as if it did n't matter to her one way or the other . |
| 26 | A tap is turned , a pressure of 120 pounds per square inch applied to the piston , and up goes the end of the coach as easily as though it were a doll 's house . |
| 27 | He could command her responses as easily as though he held her in thrall , and that made her more than a little afraid . |
| 28 | Even as she struggled he was lifting her clear off her feet as easily as though she were made of thistledown . |
| 29 | He cleared the formidable Aintree fences as easily as if they had been hurdles . |
| 30 | Thacker enjoyed the entertainment for a full forty seconds , then stooped and pulled them apart as easily as if they were two bits of cotton fluff stuck together . |