Example sentences of "[adv] as [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How was your first day as Damian 's secretary ? ’ he asked weakly , but his eyes gleamed with a new reason to live , and he listened eagerly as she told him half-truths about her new job . |
| 2 | ‘ You certainly have mastered your anatomy , ’ she told him admiringly as he slid his hands across the small of her back to find that ecstatic erogenous zone that never failed to set her on fire . |
| 3 | Her mocking laughter stopped suddenly as she saw his face go deathly white . |
| 4 | ‘ I want to look at you without any clothes on , ’ she said suddenly as she watched him suck his chocolate . |
| 5 | Much as they admired him and loved him , he seemed to have let them down . |
| 6 | Much as you said you were . |
| 7 | Much as it pained her to meekly obey , Shannon clambered slowly to her feet , muttering darkly beneath her breath . |
| 8 | Much as it infuriated her , Shannon knew when she was beaten . |
| 9 | And yet , much as she enjoyed her career and would not want to give it up permanently , she had a great desire for a strong , loving relationship and wanted to have children of her own — something she would never be able to do if her present feelings persisted . |
| 10 | She ate as directed by Taggy , and made no fuss when that dame looked after her much as she had herself done for her deceased employer — nursing her and acting as lady 's maid , and combing out her troublesome copper hair , until Theda felt strong enough to perform this office for herself . |
| 11 | Much as she resented her all-out pursuit of Roman , Dana was the sister she had loved all her life . |
| 12 | Much as she liked him , much as she would miss his companionship , it seemed to her that the relationship had reached a dead end . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , she could n't imagine herself in any form of intimacy with her employer , much as she liked him . |
| 14 | Much as she disliked her pony , Nicandra was undefeatable in her wish to please : " I 'll keep it for Ducky , " she promised . |
| 15 | Indubitably it was full of madmen , and women too , much as she found them fun to be with . |
| 16 | She frowned thoughtfully as she refilled her cup . |
| 17 | Then she was crying aloud as she felt her body quickening to climax , and the tears wet on her own cheeks as she soared to a summit she had never hoped to experience , as beautiful and spectacular and as free as the fireworks of Tivoli and , like them , over too soon , leaving her both satiated yet hungry to renew the experience . |
| 18 | She tutted aloud as she remembered she had nearly quailed altogether and quit him when he caressed her so directly and bit her ; but he was masterful , and had knowledge , and her love burst into ever greater intensity at the thought of that expertise . |
| 19 | During the lead-up to my emergence as a fully-fledged lesbian , I suffered unspeakably as I steered myself through a minefield of heavily internalized Catholic dogma . |
| 20 | The catapult ought to be safe so long as nobody knew its name . |
| 21 | He then astonished us by lending us a jeep , with its driver , Abu , for as long as we needed it . |
| 22 | And they despised her for it , some of them , and they feared her for it , most of them ; but she did not care , so long as they paid her enough to be drunk on until the need to kill was irresistible again . |
| 23 | Nothing could have prepared her for the beauty they had just shared , and she knew that for as long as she lived she would never regret giving herself to this man . |
| 24 | Harry Richardson appalled Anna by offering to lend her Flora 's school fees , interest-free , for as long as she needed them . |
| 25 | Her friends back in London would never have recognised her as the Alyssia Stanley who had dozens of men trailing behind her , and who toyed with them but only for as long as it suited her . |
| 26 | ‘ For as long as it suited you ? ’ |
| 27 | I wanted our collaboration , strange as it was , to continue for eve ; , just so long as it kept him beside me . |
| 28 | He stayed for as long as it took him to finish his beer . |
| 29 | ‘ Only for as long as it took her to latch on to another driver , ’ Vitor said drily . |
| 30 | For as long as it took me to get out of range , several birds used me for bombing practice , coming so close on occasions that ducking was a necessity rather than a flamboyant gesture . |