Example sentences of "as [adv] as [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Locke 's friends commended him for demolishing Proast 's ecclesiastical regime as effectively as he had the absolutist civil polity of Sir Robert Filmer [ q.v . ] . |
| 2 | Baldwin was to undermine the radical right as effectively as he disarmed the left in the inter-war period . |
| 3 | I feel today the excitement of that encounter almost as keenly as I did when it took place over fifty years ago . |
| 4 | ‘ My name 's Erskine Morris , ’ said the man , vanishing the cigarettes as deftly as he had produced them , and continuing to write as he spoke . |
| 5 | Bottom-placed Barrow came from 14-0 down after 10 minutes to level 24-24 at Bradford but finished as badly as they had started , leaking a further 12 points in the final 14 minutes . |
| 6 | Heffers ' sales were up 6 or 7% on last December : ‘ Christmas was n't marvellous , but it did n't turn out as badly as one feared it might , ’ reported Mark Wait . |
| 7 | All in all it was not turning out as badly as he had feared . |
| 8 | Eliot by writing as badly as he knew how … . ’ ) |
| 9 | Sometimes 1 would try to withhold my gift of words as the only way I could convey to him that he was withholding something I needed as badly as he needed my poetic ability . |
| 10 | And she knew … she just knew he 'd wanted her , as badly as she 'd wanted him . |
| 11 | She was desparetely unlucky to fall as badly as she did . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Perhaps not as badly as you wished to go , ’ he interrupted harshly . |
| 14 | ‘ Obviously not as badly as you did . ’ |
| 15 | The father was on for the whole of the second act of The Hooded Owl , and never had that part of the play passed as slowly as it did that evening . |
| 16 | Rincewind stood up as slowly as he dared , and drew from his belt the short sword he had taken from the guard a few hours and a hundred years ago . |
| 17 | Walking as slowly as she dared , Penelope was able to see that there were two figures in the room-Rupert himself and a woman , not very tall and wearing a dark , tweedy-looking suit . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He had pulled a hamstring during his warm-up and had done well to patrol as relentlessly as he did for an hour . |
| 20 | My right hon. Friend can not write off the WEU as simply and as simplistically as he did . |
| 21 | All the same , the theme is still national honour and personal loyalty , the lessons which Dick teaches to Anastasia as successfully as he had taught them to the weak but responsive Carol . |
| 22 | Somehow his mother could shut out the unpleasant from her mind as if it had never existed and she had shut out the Worm as successfully as she had shut out everything else . |
| 23 | Both , when smiling , underwent a total transformation that illuminated an unsuspected streak of gaiety in their characters as successfully as it illuminated their eyes . |
| 24 | She stood back and watched him approach the three headstones , saw him touch them as gently as she had known he would . |
| 25 | The first items unpacked were trout-rods ; and they stayed up , ready and waiting for instant use for as long as we lived there . |
| 26 | ‘ Suddenly we had a situation where money for the studio was no object : we could take as long as we liked . |
| 27 | He then astonished us by lending us a jeep , with its driver , Abu , for as long as we needed it . |
| 28 | Now , she decided , if ever she had that kind of money , she would first ensure that her family would never again , for as long as they lived , be in need . |
| 29 | A more liberal choice proposed by the Shop Hours Reform Council — allowing large shops to open for up to six hours on a Sunday , and small ones for as long as they wanted — would encourage almost half of all shops to do so . |
| 30 | No one to stop them keeping her here for as long as they wanted . |