Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have run the whole gamut of colour with the post-war American varieties , then the swing back to Europe for scent with the colour , then the bi-colour with the petals showing contrasting colours on each side , revealed so attractively as the petals curl back on themselves . |
| 2 | The 8.16 from Darlington and the returning 10.38 behaved as impeccably as the reception class at a Victorian Sunday school . |
| 3 | Eubank 's priority is to recover from a badly-bruised right forearm , sustained as early as the second round of a unanimous victory which stretched his winning sequence to 35 . |
| 4 | They also showed me the silver anklets for state elephants ( used until the 1930s ) and silver palanquins , used as recently as the 1950s . |
| 5 | He trembled as intensely as a fly whirs its wings , and stopped talking . |
| 6 | The white-washed walls of the lift shaft moved smoothly downwards as the lift ascended . |
| 7 | Hornbeam moved as smoothly as a snake , creeper twisted , ivy writhed about the mossy bark , reaching towards her , its soft and furry touch tickling as it wound about her skin . |
| 8 | Ships were carved from the blighted forests with supernatural speed , and raiders moved as far as the Isle of the Dead before being turned back by the warding spells . |
| 9 | He moved as quickly as a squirrel , half-falling from knot to knot . |
| 10 | An even more spectacular reversal occurred as recently as the day following the inauguration of President Clinton when Mr F Pena , the incoming US Transportation Secretary , quite unashamedly declared that the US ‘ can not give away valuable rights … without equivalent benefits for US carriers . ’ |
| 11 | She swayed towards him , wanting to feel his skin against hers , but his mood changed as swiftly as the wind and he pulled the gown round her roughly , his eyes as cold as stones . |
| 12 | Irene moved even closer as the conversation took another turn . |
| 13 | She jumped and came up short as the rope went taut . |
| 14 | The world of this novel is as much his country as the wild , half-derelict countrified pockets around the rapidly developing suburbia of Wimbledon , Kensington , and Battersea which the fictitious Philip and Arthur explored as thoroughly as the real Arthur Hardy and Edward had explored the parts of London commons which they called ‘ Our Country ’ . |
| 15 | This famous voting paradox , noted as early as the eighteenth century by Borda and Condorcet , has given rise to a voluminous literature . |
| 16 | The car which took us to the station drove as sedately as a Daimler in a royal procession although the people of Amsterdam were on their way to work and provided admirable subjects for baiting . |
| 17 | That came as early as the 88th second when Fox kicked to the corner and centre Frank Bunce wrestled the ball from Ieuan Evans . |
| 18 | That came as early as the 88th second when Fox kicked to the corner and centre Frank Bunce wrestled the ball from Ieuan Evans . |
| 19 | The streets curved and twisted as pleasantly as the river , but were shaded by fine lime trees , now breaking into delicate leaf , instead of the willows , soon to shimmer summer through , above the trout-ringed reaches of the River Pleshey . |
| 20 | The mean autocorrelation score for the random samples from this generator was 38 28 , and only a very small proportion of samples ( less than 1 in 1,000 ) scored as highly as the recorded e.p.s.p. histogram . |
| 21 | It was an electrifying race , made more so as the runners approached the third stage . |
| 22 | The war came first , though anti-Chinese sentiment flared up periodically as the numbers of Chinese engaged in British ports continued to rise to 8,182 in 1914 and 14,224 in 1915 , increased by the diversion to the west of ships normally operating east of Suez . |
| 23 | The sales patter flowed as freely as the corporate wine , but how well was it going down with potential investors … |
| 24 | And George Felse dived forward at the jerking ankles under the archway , felt his way forward towards the knees , and hauled strongly backwards as the roof sagged slowly and ponderously inwards on top of Gus Hambro . |
| 25 | She hung on tightly as the pole veered violently round . |
| 26 | The question followed once again as the pain subsided . |
| 27 | They glanced up curiously as the Kubelwagen arrived , rising to their feet when they saw Schellenberg 's uniform . |
| 28 | He giggled slightly hysterically as the after-affects of the shock gripped him . |
| 29 | Ya'kub , known as Ecezade , who taught as far as the Iznik medrese , then became a kasabat kadi , eventually serving in Trabzon , from which , after the accession of Selim I ( 918/1512 ) , he became kadi in Selanik and then in Bursa , dying while in retirement from that post in 924/1518 . |
| 30 | Oxford began the night teetering on the brink of the relegation zone and pulse rates soared as early as the second minute . |