Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pron] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | They ate less and less , never venturing outside the villa , the physical aspect of their relationship consuming them both as Damian began to take her beyond her new-found sensuality , smashing barriers as he went , teaching her everything about her body and his until she thrilled to the power of knowing how to touch and kiss him to make him breathless with ecstasy , whispering incoherent , urgent words of encouragement to her until they both fell into their usual sleep of pleasurable exhaustion , completely united by the passion that raged just as highly between them now as it ever had from the very beginning . |
| 2 | Rosie was going to move in with me April–July as Mark has found a room in a really nice flat in St Stephens Street ( nr. ) from April , but she phoned last week to say she + Jonathan have bought a wee flat already ! |
| 3 | I 'm gon na read from verse thirty five , just the paragraph there , the last paragraph in that chapter it says on that day when evening had come Jesus said to them let us go over to the other side and leaving the multitude they took him along with them just as he was in the boat and other boats were with them . |
| 4 | It amused him even more and he looked down at her quizzically as she wrenched her arm from his grasp . |
| 5 | But as my mouth framed the words the little man looked down at me appealingly as though he knew what I was going to say . |
| 6 | and they can take that away from you just as soon as |
| 7 | She gaped at the glass , leaning well away from it now as though it might be a dangerous thing . |
| 8 | I 'm a single parent , and I blame myself for the way he is — but I feel it 's too late to get through to him now as talking or reasoning does n't work . |
| 9 | Each time we went for another animal all those left howled and fought their chains to get close to us so as not to be left behind . |
| 10 | And we really need two men out there , but I ca n't ask more of them than they 're doing ; they 're making up for one short as it is . |
| 11 | Indenbaum offered him some old pictures to paint over , but Modigliani picked carefully through them so as not to paint over any painting , however unimportant , which showed a hint of talent . |
| 12 | Collecting her ticket , she came up behind him again as he checked in for the flight . |
| 13 | The sergeant came to a halt outside the adjutant 's hut , and an out-of-breath Charlie caught up with him just as the door was opened by a colour-sergeant who turned to Charlie and said , ‘ Stand to attention , lad , remain one pace behind me and do n't speak unless you 're spoken to . |
| 14 | My wife was of no service at all in the crisis and I could only look up at her reproachfully as she leaned against the doorpost dabbing at her eyes . |
| 15 | We 'd get a confession out of him easy as blinking . |
| 16 | I 'm staying as far out of it all as I can . |
| 17 | He was heaved out of his almost as soon as he regained consciousness . |
| 18 | He was sitting near the far wall , as far from everyone else as possible and , having cleared a space in the rubbish around him , had drawn a crude circle on the floor with a sliver of chalk he had begged from Apanage . |
| 19 | The elegance of his own style , the willingness of the assistants , the feeling that an endless flow of joy emanated from this eccentric and astute little man , the jade-green charm of the suit that was eventually chosen , the reserve , the luxury , the civilization of that day came back to her now as she stood gazing at iron scaffolding , aware of drunks in the square opposite and the depression that had undermined the world , and her , since the buoyancy of that radiant and particular day . |
| 20 | ‘ Then ask them to repeat it back to you just as you told it . |
| 21 | As I say , I 'll get it back to you just as soon as I 've managed to make a copy of it . ’ |
| 22 | Certainly , yes , you can phone somebody whilst you 're camping on to somebody else as well . |
| 23 | Tina grabbed his arm and held on to it fiercely as he stared back into Mrs Cramp 's hard little boot-button eyes . |
| 24 | Besides , in those days , the girls would have been on to it quick as a flash and we did n't want that . |
| 25 | There were a few areas of welcome grassland like the one that rose ahead of him almost as soon as he left the Park behind . |
| 26 | Some will actually feel that they are inside the body of the former self , and that everything is going on around them just as it does in ordinary life . |