Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [adv] as it " in BNC.

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1 Nigel and Rosamund Starmer-Smith 's tragic loss of their daughter , Charlotte , has clearly affected many of you as deeply as it has us .
2 You must allow all the horror of the picture to visit you as often as it will .
3 They say that nobody remembers who came second but when that has happened to you as often as it has to Montgomerie , it is difficult to forget .
4 ‘ And perhaps I should remind you that the contract you 've just cited binds you as securely as it does us , unless you 're willing to face interminable legal hassles in an effort to extricate yourself . ’
5 I put my tongue out at them as far as it would go .
6 It does n't come to me as easily as it does to you . "
7 I could sense Lili turning her head to look at me , but the urge to talk , to confess , had left me as suddenly as it had come .
8 New life , green as the holly leaf , was at work inside him as surely as it stirred inside his wife .
9 Moran hardly heard ; all resentment left him as quickly as it had come : McQuaid was here and it was Monaghan Day .
10 It suited her as well as it always did , the creamy-white silk throwing her olive skin into greater contrast against her thick raven hair and dark Mediterranean eyes .
11 The smell of oil clung to her as strongly as it did to the rags in the van .
12 They were bound by it so long as it was not in conflict with their statutory duty .
13 Eventually an equilibrium was reached , and although the Troll flesh was still there Grom was digesting it as fast as it was regrowing .
14 The food that India produces does not find its way to the people who need it as efficiently as it did in the Maharashtra drought .
15 So far from abandoning our folly , we started pushing it as far as it would go .
16 ‘ I have no future but my children and my wife will take it as far as it goes .
17 Tabitha liked it well enough as it was , though she remembered better days , not so many years ago , when the jazz bands in the bodegas had been almost loud enough to drown the furious rattle of the old spice prospectors playing mah-jongg .
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