Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [pron] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so he hugged his loneliness to himself even as he bemoaned it . |
| 2 | She had put her hair up so as to look older than her sixteen years but even so she straightened her music and her shoulders with such self-consciousness that the maturity of her voice came as a shock to him just as it always did . |
| 3 | They read our body language better than we do ourselves , and signal to us just as they would to each other . |
| 4 | Something happened which always pleased him : his wife opened the front door to him just as he was about to put his key in the lock . |
| 5 | The cottage , their belongings , were their joint life , adorned and gave reality to it just as the bushes and flowers they had planted in the garden staked out their territory of trust . |
| 6 | If they had given his note to her exactly as he had said … |