Example sentences of "as [adv] [subord] he [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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | All in all it was not turning out as badly as he had feared . |
| 5 | Eliot by writing as badly as he knew how … . ’ ) |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He had pulled a hamstring during his warm-up and had done well to patrol as relentlessly as he did for an hour . |
| 9 | My right hon. Friend can not write off the WEU as simply and as simplistically as he did . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | For a week , producer Robert Kemp had free run of the camp , interviewing whoever he chose for as long as he chose . |
| 12 | She was to remain Henry 's captive for as long as he chose . |
| 13 | What was specified was that Franco would be Head of State for as long as he lived , and that he would designate his own successor , as king or regent . |
| 14 | It was also a hint that , while he wanted to retain ultimate control for as long as he lived , he foresaw a time when it might be possible to relinquish his personal hold on the administration of the system without it collapsing . |
| 15 | Eventually the carabiniere got bored and let Eric stay in the lavatory for as long as he wanted . |
| 16 | She had to talk for as long as he wanted and it was a long time . |
| 17 | He had asked John Prior Estlin for letters of introduction to the Unitarian ministers at Bridgwater and Taunton , and became a regular preacher in both towns for as long as he remained at Stowey . |
| 18 | The head said that that would be the case and that Balbinder would stay for as long as he needed their help . |
| 19 | For him , this meant giving master classes in duplicity in order to keep both Axis and Allies in play for as long as he needed to achieve his economic , military and , above all , territorial objectives . |
| 20 | Ramsay delayed the return for as long as he dared , to allow stragglers to come up . |
| 21 | It is unlikely that he would have gone to a children 's home in the first place and stayed for as long as he did before fostering was tried . |
| 22 | I 'm surprised he stuck to you for as long as he did . ’ |
| 23 | Angel had never had a lesson ; he played as naturally as he walked . |
| 24 | The Colonel was used to acting in loco parentis and would certainly not have responded as warmly as he had done to Miss Danziger 's maturity had he not discerned in it a vulnerability : something he could defend . |
| 25 | And yet , as carelessly as he had discarded this coat , he had deliberately destroyed her hopes and her dreams . |
| 26 | Karl stopped laughing as suddenly as he had begun , his face grave and concerned and kindly . |
| 27 | Then , just as suddenly as he had appeared , the man turned and ran off . |
| 28 | He snapped it in two — gave me a leer — and was gone , as suddenly as he had arrived . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |