Example sentences of "he [verb] as [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile if you have any special requests or suggestions , please let him know as soon as possible . |
| 2 | I saw him depart as peacefully as a sleeping infant . |
| 3 | And Beuno said nothing , but he looked at him as mildly as he looks at the trout that he catches in the stream , and the doctor said , ‘ Until tomorrow ’ , and he left , and Beuno watched him go as mildly as he watches the sheep when he frees them from where they are caught in the hedge . |
| 4 | Let him go … try and let him go as easily as you let me go . ’ |
| 5 | Visits to Exeter he made as rarely as possible . |
| 6 | He made as swiftly as he could for the foyer . |
| 7 | He said you know , cos he lived as cheaply as he could while he was out there and |
| 8 | He cared as much as I do . |
| 9 | ‘ You were afraid then ? ’ he asked as softly as the noise of the plane allowed . |
| 10 | ‘ What shall we do this afternoon ? ’ he asked as casually as if they spent all their Wednesday afternoons together . |
| 11 | He got as far as the lawn , just out there , and then he stopped and stood , seemingly just staring at the house . |
| 12 | He got as far as lifting his head and getting one shoulder off the seat , but then collapsed back onto the leather , and let his eyes close . |
| 13 | He got as far as twelve , then he looked puzzled . |
| 14 | He got as far as Rugby before he was caught . |
| 15 | In the coalfields he read as avidly as ever , including in his reading books about the French revolution by Michelet and others . |
| 16 | He saw himself as a buffoon with nasty reserves of observation , a man with goonish spectacles clamped round his ears and perfidy in his guts , and he felt so appalled by his mistrust of an old friend who must surely be taken for an ally that he tried as fast as possible to invent some headway on the project about Berlin . |
| 17 | She had few friends to whom he objected as strongly as Bridget . |
| 18 | He was really playing great tennis , ’ McEnroe conceded , ‘ I did n't realise he moved as well as he did . |
| 19 | He moved as quietly as he could . |
| 20 | He moved as quietly as he could towards the connecting door , grasped the handle and with a single movement flung the door open . |
| 21 | He moved as quickly as a squirrel , half-falling from knot to knot . |
| 22 | He stopped as abruptly as he had begun . |
| 23 | He stopped as abruptly as she had done . |
| 24 | He trembled as intensely as a fly whirs its wings , and stopped talking . |
| 25 | Angel had never had a lesson ; he played as naturally as he walked . |
| 26 | He stop as far as page 118 of McCann . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I am the Conservatives ’ Jeremy Irons , ’ he murmured as apologetically as if he were standing at the rostrum with a brand new Oscar . |
| 28 | He was mostly on the defensive and , towards the end , he came as near as possible to resignation , but throughout he gave remarkably little ground on either issue . |
| 29 | To do Haverford justice , he was n't altogether happy about his lack of rapport with his daughter ; at times he came as near as he ever could to feeling guilty about it . |
| 30 | What he saw he painted as exactly as could be painted but he certainly knew when to catch each view in its most romantic moment . |