Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adv] as [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She realized that she was feeling it too , frozen to the marrow in this bitter East wind which kept whipping her cloak off her shoulders as contemptuously as if it had been made of pocket-handkerchieves instead of tablecloths , her stomach hollow and aching , her head feeling light and aching a little too . |
| 2 | 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, when they are directed at certain children can cut them off from their peers as effectively as if they had been withdrawn . |
| 3 | But Nocker , the part he played in Camel was no Bilko , even though he threw his weight around just as though he were head of the transport squad at Fort Baxter . |
| 4 | He could command her responses as easily as though he held her in thrall , and that made her more than a little afraid . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Complying with her appeal , Dada abandoned his kedgeree and , sucking his moustache inwards always with him a sign of annoyance he picked up the viburnum , still with its precious burden , opened the bottom sash of a long window , and flung out the double butterfly as viciously as if it had been a slug in the salad . |
| 7 | Like Kenneth Horne , he had to take his work as seriously as though he were about to play Macbeth — and he did , every trouser-dropping , each double-entendre reciting , any nasal-sounding ‘ stop messing about ’ moment . |
| 8 | By English law , Michael Joyce lost his British nationality as completely as though he had never possessed it . |
| 9 | He had taken a sample of blood from the plump flaccid arm , feeling for the vein as carefully as if she could still flinch at the needle 's prick . |
| 10 | The question — or was it a demand — shocked him out of his fantasy as crudely as if , unprovoked , she had suddenly slapped his face . |
| 11 | Amsterdam sipped his Madeira , seeing Topaz as clearly as if she were sitting opposite him . |
| 12 | Even as she struggled he was lifting her clear off her feet as easily as though she were made of thistledown . |
| 13 | Someone who knowingly touches another without his consent violates this personal right as surely as if he had taken his property . |
| 14 | It all looked delightfully cosy , with an en-suite bathroom , but Kate backed out of the room as quickly as if she 'd walked into a pit full of rattlesnakes . |
| 15 | Long I have lingered by the banks of the Ness , looking on the town clinging to and rising above its banks ; often have I gone to the castle hill to trace the windings of the stream , which was ever smiling back or reflecting the sadder tones of the sky , and to gaze on the distant land of mountain and plain ; and I have also spent many hours in rapt admiration of the sylvan pictures that render the walk through the islands on the Ness a walk of walks : it yielded a joy as deep as that I received from the walks on Goat Island , within hearing and seeing of the rapid-flowing waters of Niagara . |
| 16 | Have you ever seen things so clearly as when you were first in love ? |
| 17 | And he realized the boy 's terror : he could feel the imprint of the boy 's feelings as strongly as if they were his own . |
| 18 | In a silence full of his broken intention , she caught the look , passing helplessly between him and Lalage — a look that joined her love and her friend as clearly as if she had found them in bed . |
| 19 | They clung to each other almost fearfully as though they believed that , in the whole of this alien and bewildering world , only the two of them had any real substance ; as if all else was an illusion . |
| 20 | At night , on a dark moon , lying on my raised sleeping-platform at coconut level , the stars are reflected in the paddies as strongly as if down was up , and half this universe dances round me as the mating fireflies move through the trees and the house . |
| 21 | At the editorial conference Rain brushed aside Holly 's error of judgement as blithely as if it had been her own . |
| 22 | Her crew lined up on deck as gravely as if at a business meeting . |
| 23 | I have expressed phenomenalism so far as if all phenomenalists agree that observation statements report the nature of the reporter 's own sensory states . |
| 24 | He led the way into the next field , a pasture : and here they all fell to feeding , nibbling their way over the grass as easily as though their warren were close by . |
| 25 | Even if I had no longer been able to see the real images in my mind I could see their representations as clearly as if they hung before me , and the two were beginning to run together . |
| 26 | He ran across the gangplank as enthusiastically as though he sought votes for his father 's election campaign , then approached us with an outstretched hand and a voice full of bright greetings . |
| 27 | He had carried her in his arms as naturally as if he had been doing so for years , and she had felt right there . |
| 28 | I never made more friends as easily as when I was among people whose language I spoke badly and who barely spoke mine at all . |
| 29 | Although she knew that he would n't wake , she turned the handle of the door as carefully as if expecting it to explode . |
| 30 | She was gone now , out of his life as surely as if she were dead . |