Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as [pers pn] [verb] come " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody intervened , although there were many people walking in the street , and when the two men had finished what they had obviously planned to do , they left as unhurriedly as they had come . |
| 2 | They were gone as suddenly as they had come . |
| 3 | Her boyfriend , having disappeared during her pregnancy , returned and acted like a concerned father for a few months after the baby was born , even coming to live in Joanne 's house , but then left as suddenly as he had come , and all the family feel very bitter about this . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The pain had left as suddenly as it had come , except for a small reminder in her back . |
| 6 | Hari 's wash of hurt pride and anger vanished as suddenly as it had come , though she realized that Craig 's words were no more than flattery . |
| 7 | I could sense Lili turning her head to look at me , but the urge to talk , to confess , had left me as suddenly as it had come . |
| 8 | That , she thought , was as good an idea as any , and on silent feet she went as swiftly as she had come back to her kitchen . |
| 9 | Moran hardly heard ; all resentment left him as quickly as it had come : McQuaid was here and it was Monaghan Day . |
| 10 | The light was extinguished as quickly as it had come , and her shoulders curled with disappointment . |
| 11 | It transpired that the snow went as quickly as it had come , the road was opened and supplies began getting through regularly again . |
| 12 | The knowledge disappeared as quickly as it had come ; but it had come in time to remind her of why she had waited so anxiously for Johnny to visit her ; to remind her of why she had longed for his return with such a burning impatience . |
| 13 | The laughter fled from her eyes as quickly as it had come . |
| 14 | Yet he was a kind of Christ figure , who entered the lives of ordinary people in a rich , bored , bourgeois family , made love to them all indifferently , both male and female , inexplicably , then left as mysteriously as he had come , deserting them in the hours of their greatest need . |
| 15 | I 'm sorry it took all this to get them out into the open — as far as they 've come . |
| 16 | Shamlou 's smile vanished as fast as it had come . |
| 17 | When he had finished the mandarin disappeared again as silently as he had come , and Joseph saw the emperor take a rolled Chinese scroll from one of his sleeves . |
| 18 | He bent to kiss her and before she could recover he had pulled the sheets over her and walked out , closing the door and going down the stairs as softly as he had come up . |
| 19 | The impulse to cry disappeared as inexplicably as it had come . |