Example sentences of "[verb] she [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 'd been neither sight nor sound of James since that fateful day and no doubt he had forgotten her as quickly as he had taken her , but he must be told there was going to be a child . |
| 2 | We did n't know her so well as we think . |
| 3 | Did n't know her so well as you did . |
| 4 | He thought he could mindblast her as simply as he had put Tunney out of the picture . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She 'd like her niece to visit her as soon as possible . |
| 7 | He was able to answer her as calmly as she had spoken . |
| 8 | ‘ I will send her as soon as possible then , Mr Brocklehurst . |
| 9 | With his eyes closed he could see her as clearly as if she were standing in front of him . |
| 10 | I was living up Redruth way and I used to go and see her as often as I could , because I sort of sensed she was n't all that happy . |
| 11 | She exacerbates all his old anxieties and feelings of ambivalence towards ‘ mothers ’ , and because he can not cope , he defends himself by ignoring her as far as possible . |
| 12 | If he had a new night special , even if he later grew to like her , he would start by trying to play her up just as he had me , and , since she had told me herself , Daisy Yates . |
| 13 | The absurd thoughts had got her as far as the foot of that horrible stairway , then she had felt the level floor of another passage beneath her feet . |
| 14 | Well I 'll ring her up tonight as well and find out if it 's , if it 's gone up exorbitantly , I 'll have to ring round , ring you and see what to do . |
| 15 | Matthew seemed to avoid her as studiously as he avoided Sandra ! |
| 16 | Through the brushed cotton of her sweater she could feel the pressure of his fingers , his touch scorching her as surely as if it had been on her bare skin . |
| 17 | I killed her as surely as if I had stabbed her with a knife , shot her with a gun , squeezed her neck between my hands . |
| 18 | The buzzard flew to the king 's palace , waited , perching in an oak tree , until the princess came out for her evening stroll , and then picked her up and carried her back to the forest , holding her as carefully as if she were made of rose petals . |
| 19 | He released her as suddenly as he had come to her support and she grasped quickly and covertly at the back of another chair , not wanting him to know that her numbed leg was tingling painfully now . |
| 20 | She said I was cutting her out just as I 'd cut out other people in my life . |
| 21 | If any other clubs in Devon or Cornwall would like Pam to organise a visit or workshop round this time , please contact her as soon as possible . |
| 22 | If you have one you think suitable please contact her as soon as possible . |
| 23 | This time it was his eyes that were narrowed as he watched her as closely as any cat after a mouse . |
| 24 | He had told her the story , and reassured her as far as he was able . |
| 25 | At lunchtime , when he read the note , he would always thank her as warmly as he could , but her mistake of taste was plainly defined in his face . |
| 26 | Every hour mattered : I had to see her as soon as possible . |
| 27 | ‘ I got her up here as soon as I could . |
| 28 | Isabel 's shaking legs got her as far as the bench before she collapsed . |
| 29 | At last , with greasy fingers , she managed to guide him to her saturated hole , and he penetrated her as easily as her own fingers did when she masturbated . |
| 30 | Somehow Dr Neil 's touch did not seem to affect her as badly as that of most men , even though in the cab home sitting so near to him nearly brought on the kind of faintness which she had felt on the walk home from church . |