Example sentences of "[vb past] she [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.

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1 I killed her as surely as if I had stabbed her with a knife , shot her with a gun , squeezed her neck between my hands .
2 He released her as suddenly as he had come to her support and she grasped quickly and covertly at the back of another chair , not wanting him to know that her numbed leg was tingling painfully now .
3 This time it was his eyes that were narrowed as he watched her as closely as any cat after a mouse .
4 He had told her the story , and reassured her as far as he was able .
5 ‘ I got her up here as soon as I could .
6 Isabel 's shaking legs got her as far as the bench before she collapsed .
7 At last , with greasy fingers , she managed to guide him to her saturated hole , and he penetrated her as easily as her own fingers did when she masturbated .
8 It was vaguely insulting to know that he treated her as casually as he would have treated any stranger with whom he found himself forced to share a house .
9 I treated her rotten whilst I was studying like I would n't take time off studying to go and see her or phone her when I saw her as often as I could , every weekend
10 Her father 's work took him at least as far as Shalstone , Buckinghamshire , and her own work took her as far as Edgcote on the Oxfordshire border .
11 He made no attempt to detain her , but walked with her down the dark drive and took her as far as her own front door .
12 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 .
13 She instructed him to wash her , and was surprised when he soaped her as gently as if she was a baby .
14 Do tell me all about it ! ’ she begged ; and Breeze enlightened her as far as she could , without referring to the business of the wallet .
15 He ran his hand the length of her spine , making her aware that he wanted her as badly as she wanted him , and for a wild moment she could see no reason why they should n't make love .
16 I picked her out almost as soon as she arrived , the only woman present whom I did not know or , in the case of George 's sisters , could not identify .
17 ‘ The problem with casting myself as the male version of Calypso is that I doubt if Ulysses trusted her as far as he could throw her . ’
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