Example sentences of "[adv] as [subord] [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they had reached St Matthew 's church he had followed her inside as naturally as if they had set out together that morning . |
| 2 | He had carried her in his arms as naturally as if he had been doing so for years , and she had felt right there . |
| 3 | It was all as though I had a horrible secret I had to keep . ’ |
| 4 | When we talk about it ( now all too common in public ) , we do so as though it had set fast , even for a moment , in some way . |
| 5 | They swirled together as though they had been stirred with a spoon . |
| 6 | Her garments were removed as swiftly as if she 'd done it herself . |
| 7 | ‘ You know well enough , James — you must have thought — once the government is resolved , and we have talked ourselves hoarse and there is no ink left in the country — then the dragoons will come in and cart the young men away as though we have done nothing . |
| 8 | He cleared the formidable Aintree fences as easily as if they had been hurdles . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | With a final darting glance to ensure that her appearance was in order she made her way as nervously downstairs as if it had been she herself about to marry . |
| 11 | Just as before she had needed to stay inside the cottage , fearful that she would miss Johnny if he should come , now she needed to be away , out there where her world was still turning , and people laughed and played and did ordinary things . |
| 12 | Just as when she had spoken to him , the invitation seemed overt . |
| 13 | We read and experimented until we could stride into builders ' suppliers and ask for one-way cistern inlet valves , 1.5 mm triplecore insulated or three-inch steel angle brackets , just as though we had been born knowing all about it , like men ! |
| 14 | Well indigestion , it was terrible pains down my chest just as though you 'd swallowed glass and every now and again it would sort of stab at you . |
| 15 | " You will read this book just as though you had bought it at a bookstall and you were reading it in the ordinary way as a whole . " |
| 16 | Just as though he had not been going to walk past into the kitchen , he wheeled , and pounded up the stairs in front of her . |
| 17 | I 'd tried to keep my voice light , coaxing , but she studied me coolly as though she 'd picked up my unspoken reservations and would not forget them . |
| 18 | Ray Shepherd looked up at them as coolly as if he had just driven in to work on a routine day . |
| 19 | He ignored her words , exactly as though she had not spoken . |
| 20 | ‘ Did you want me , Myra ? ’ she asked as calmly as if they had been discussing the weather and not within an ace of making either love or war . |
| 21 | Acting as quickly as when she had gone to ground after Nicandra 's Nettie , she took his hand , lightly as a tame bird arriving to perch on a finger ; with a touching confidence in his response , she turned her little monkey 's face up to him , dropped the hand she had touched and , without a backward look led the way to the Ballroom . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Jessamy jumped back as quickly as if she had been shot . |
| 24 | It was long since Adam had thought of him so , and he gathered the warmth of their recollection to him as gratefully as if he had salved one bleached and solitary bone of the beloved right hand out of the Severn , and laid it back in holy ground . |
| 25 | There was ever-smiling Doctor Agrippa , hawk-visaged Carey , the thick coarsened face of Melford and , of course , Scawsby , his face sour as ever as if he had just broken wind and hoped no one would notice . |
| 26 | A girl emerged from the dairy with a pan of milk and was instantly surrounded by the stable cats , mewing pleadingly as though they had not caught a single mouse for days . |
| 27 | And then it 's like as though they 've had them long windows , you know ? |
| 28 | It 's like as though I 've in mangle . |
| 29 | At the editorial conference Rain brushed aside Holly 's error of judgement as blithely as if it had been her own . |
| 30 | 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 . |