Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adv] as [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | By English law , Michael Joyce lost his British nationality as completely as though he had never possessed it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The question — or was it a demand — shocked him out of his fantasy as crudely as if , unprovoked , she had suddenly slapped his face . |
| 8 | Amsterdam sipped his Madeira , seeing Topaz as clearly as if she were sitting opposite him . |
| 9 | Someone who knowingly touches another without his consent violates this personal right as surely as if he had taken his property . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | At the editorial conference Rain brushed aside Holly 's error of judgement as blithely as if it had been her own . |
| 14 | Her crew lined up on deck as gravely as if at a business meeting . |
| 15 | I have expressed phenomenalism so far as if all phenomenalists agree that observation statements report the nature of the reporter 's own sensory states . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Although she knew that he would n't wake , she turned the handle of the door as carefully as if expecting it to explode . |
| 19 | She was gone now , out of his life as surely as if she were dead . |
| 20 | That last bomb had taken out those houses as if it had come with a great grasping fist and scooped them up and crunched them into rubble as easily as if they 'd been made of matchsticks . |
| 21 | He was resting his huge hand on June 's angled knee as casually as if it were the arm of a chair . |
| 22 | You ca n't take a substantial break and expect to get back to your best form as easily as when you were , say , 20 . ’ |
| 23 | When they reached her floor eventually , she bade him a perfunctory farewell and stepped out of the lift with a feeling of release , hurrying towards her apartment , heart and hormones defeating any intention of greeting Luke 's arrival as coolly as if it did n't matter to her one way or the other . |
| 24 | A clamour of conflicting emotions warred within her while her treacherous body arched greedily to every movement he made , answering each speaking gesture as fluently as if used to long practice . |
| 25 | They believe me , Connelly thought as he tried to suck in breath , tasting the rancid atmosphere as thickly as if it were smoke . |
| 26 | Some of his oldest friends , who for years had been accustomed to seeing him , fat and genial , as the leading light of a pig-sticking expedition , were astonished to hear him now holding forth like a veritable Newton or Faraday and discussing the latest discoveries in medicine as fluently as if they were entries in the Bengal Club Cup or the Planters ' Handicap . |