Example sentences of "[vb past] he [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I dismissed him as quickly as I could and later found that he had gone to drink himself into a drunken stupor . |
| 2 | The leading Coalitionists in the Conservative Party-Austen Chamberlain and Birkenhead-had , perforce , to come to terms with Baldwin , and sustained him as unwillingly as Lloyd George accepted Asquith 's leadership . |
| 3 | We just helped him as well as we could in the circumstances . |
| 4 | Three hundred Catholic miners marched in from Cleator Moor , four miles away , intercepted him outside the meeting-hall , beat him as hard as they could , and left him for dead . |
| 5 | He stayed out of the way as much as he could , and Sandy mentioned him as infrequently as possible . |
| 6 | He had asked her what was happening and she told him as truthfully as possible . |
| 7 | ‘ I have n't any serious plans to marry him , if that 's what you 're asking , ’ she told him as levelly as she could , and had the hardest work in the world in hanging on to her temper when his glance flicked from her through the open door into her sitting-room . |
| 8 | He walked swiftly beside the trolley as they wheeled it towards the Theatre lifts , and Kath told him as rapidly as she could what they had established . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm not saying kissing you was n't quite pleasant , as kisses go , ’ she informed him as calmly as she could , desperately trying to disguise the way her heart was pounding with fear as she recalled her reactions to that kiss . |
| 10 | I made my preparations and joined him as quickly as I could . |
| 11 | Moving her arms to his neck , she clasped him as tight as she could and gave him back kiss for kiss . |
| 12 | The man who 's watching him followed him as near as possible to the mountain the first time but he could n't go any further without being seen — the same problem we had with Scano 's boy yesterday . |
| 13 | We followed him as quietly as we could . |
| 14 | Personal sins , he warned him as early as 796 , could lose him his kingdom , for of his predecessors who had lost life and kingdom God condemned the perjury of some , the adultery of others , the avarice and fraud of others , and the unjust deeds of the rest . |
| 15 | Drawing back her arm , she hit him as hard as she could across the face . |
| 16 | A hard light in her eyes , she drew back her arm and hit him as hard as she could across the face . |
| 17 | I watched him as far as the corner of the curator 's garden , and saw him turn in alongside the hedge . |
| 18 | His cajoling got him as far as the first landing , but then his legs all but gave out , and thereafter he had to climb using his one good arm to haul him onwards . |
| 19 | He was not a tall man and was soon almost dwarfed by his five lively , wryly humorous sons , who avoided him as far as possible and could not leave home soon enough . |
| 20 | It had originated from elsewhere , and infected him as surely as any virus . |
| 21 | The two Longner men who rode one on either side their borrowed minstrel brought him as far as the gatehouse , waiting in silence as he dismounted . |
| 22 | She promptly slapped him as hard as she could , which was not very hard . |
| 23 | One day I asked him if he knew Fanny 's young man , and he said he knew him as well as he knew himself ! ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Russell laughed , and we all laughed : she knew him as well as that . |
| 25 | She saw him again briefly as she helped herself to food . |
| 26 | I saw him as often as I could and at first we concentrated on his anger . |
| 27 | Maggie saw him more clearly as he stepped forward . |
| 28 | Behind him , Farquhar propped him up unobtrusively as he swayed slightly , his glazed expression half-hidden by his neatly-brushed beard . |
| 29 | His momentum carried him as far as the launcher and with out-thrust foot he sent it keeling over on to its side . |
| 30 | More important , perhaps , he was in normal uniform , which grounded him as surely as if he had been chained to the nearest hangar door . |