Example sentences of "[noun pl] [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, when they are directed at certain children can cut them off from their peers as effectively as if they had been withdrawn .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 | He could command her responses as easily as though he held her in thrall , and that made her more than a little afraid . |
| 4 | Even as she struggled he was lifting her clear off her feet as easily as though she were made of thistledown . |
| 5 | Have you ever seen things so clearly as when you were first in love ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He had carried her in his arms as naturally as if he had been doing so for years , and she had felt right there . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He cleared the formidable Aintree fences as easily as if they had been hurdles . |