Example sentences of "as [adv] [subord] he have " 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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | All in all it was not turning out as badly as he had feared . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And yet , as carelessly as he had discarded this coat , he had deliberately destroyed her hopes and her dreams . |
| 7 | Karl stopped laughing as suddenly as he had begun , his face grave and concerned and kindly . |
| 8 | Then , just as suddenly as he had appeared , the man turned and ran off . |
| 9 | He snapped it in two — gave me a leer — and was gone , as suddenly as he had arrived . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Then , just as suddenly as he had stopped , the male was off again , perking up his feathers and hopping after his mate with a meaningful glint in his beady eyes . |
| 13 | He took the Canal Turn as fluently as he had on the first circuit , then swept towards Valentine 's Brook . |
| 14 | He seemed to love her as fiercely as he had once loved Ryan , Shiona thought to herself with a little inner shiver . |
| 15 | Her hands slid up his chest , her fingers uncurling against the hard wall of muscle , tracing every strong lean line until they brushed against the warm skin of his throat , then slid on to draw his head back down while she kissed him just as tenderly , just as achingly as he had kissed her . |
| 16 | Lorton had known who they were as soon as he 'd seen them ; he had been expecting the police , though not quite as soon as this , and in any case salesmen rarely travelled in pairs . |
| 17 | The latter had vanished as punctually as he had appeared . |
| 18 | Despite the elegance , it was a completely masculine presence , and he dominated the room as easily as he had his own office . |
| 19 | Sebastian got a job , as easily as he had said he would , working for an intellectual left-wing magazine . |
| 20 | There 'd been neither sight nor sound of James since that fateful day and no doubt he had forgotten her as quickly as he had taken her , but he must be told there was going to be a child . |
| 21 | The girls hurriedly departed , and the bouncer withdrew as quickly as he had appeared . |
| 22 | He stopped trembling as quickly as he had begun a moment before and seemed to withdraw down the dark passage to the daydream he was locked in when they first arrived . |
| 23 | ‘ But then what do these Ministry Inspectors know about education ? ’ resumed the headmaster hastily , discarding doubts as quickly as he had assumed them . |
| 24 | It does n't have to be followed slavishly , which can happen when a man wants to impose a schedule and organise it as formally as he has organised his work . |
| 25 | ‘ It — er — depends how — um — busy Barney is , ’ she made up as she went along , and with relief was let off the hook a little while her mother commented on how hard Barney worked , and how , if he could n't take his holiday quite as early as he 'd planned , that perhaps it might be a good idea for Cara to stay touring with her , and maybe take a plane to America from Czechoslovakia . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I thought of the most dedicated cricket fanatic I had ever known back in South Africa — a man who despite repeated heart attacks , doctors ' warnings and family entreaties to stop playing the game , had persisted with club cricket to the end , in his sixties diving after slip catches as recklessly as he had in his teens . |
| 28 | Now he was slipping away from life as uncomplainingly as he had lived it . |
| 29 | Yet not only had she not said anything but as far as he 'd been able to ascertain she had n't left him any lunch . |
| 30 | Adam himself had never shown any interest in Wyvis Hall , as far as he had noticed . |