Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The small foreign person was walking as jauntily as ever , though Bramble realized that he did so with a pronounced limp . |
| 2 | So well had her work progressed at the Lodge , and so greatly — for all the discomfort — had she enjoyed her solitude , that Louisa momentarily tried defiance ; but she was shivering uncontrollably even as she did so . |
| 3 | She had reached a zenith of feeling , and really did n't care which hole he was shafting so long as he was inside her . |
| 4 | I collapsed in a heap as did George , one of the guards from the Pigsty , who was puffing as hard as me . |
| 5 | Right my wife was selling as far as I was concerned . |
| 6 | ‘ I was going as carefully as I could because I had a 25-second cushion over Berger so I was able to slow down a bit and the pain eased . |
| 7 | A Hanoverian stallion , with thick neck and muscular quarters , was moving as lightly as an Arab in a balanced , energetic , collected walk . |
| 8 | Edward was demanding that the callers be patient , he was coming as fast as he could . |
| 9 | We er we got very close to beating Bellevue at Bellevue which was okay I mean everybody 's a bit rusty so and we were experimenting with tyres and everything and er it was only a challenge , but it was nice to get the first meeting on the way and er I was very impressed by some of er the team members of what I saw , I knew er team mate Dean Bargger was doing particularly well scoring 11 points and er he 's really a promising er youngster which I think we can get a lot of use out of , and er in general I mean you know Ellis Stevens was doing particularly well as well , so if those two can keep doing well during the season , then okay mine had a few problems , she only scored 3 points , but that was just a one-off so yeah I thing we look quite strong on paper again now . |
| 10 | The first was a short man who was walking along the street , and the second was a little girl who was running as fast as she could . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , by the end of the inter-war period the working class fertility rate was dropping as rapidly as that of the middle class , with the result that the two-child family was fast ceasing to be a middle class phenomenon . |
| 12 | I followed him down from 2,000 feet — put carb heat on — I was descending as quickly as the helicopter ; we managed to keep him visual . |
| 13 | But in the South Pacific as in the North , that original idyll was fading away even as Gauguin paid tribute to it . |
| 14 | And she was succeeding as far as Mahmoud was concerned . |
| 15 | Oh God ! ’ he was yelling aloud now as he stumbled back towards Martin and then stood looking down at him . |
| 16 | Connelly was fighting as hard as he could but it was useless . |
| 17 | He was behaving as irrationally as Myeloski . |
| 18 | Snow was falling as steadily as the apricot blossom in the first monsoon storm . |
| 19 | Halifax , however , was always more equivocal ; he was trying as late as the battle for France to keep the option of peace talks open , if they could preserve the independence of the British Empire . |
| 20 | There is , however , an inevitable logic to the appropriation of her meticulously constructed image , a process which the artist was mocking as early as 1933 : ‘ … some of the gringa women are imitating me and trying to dress ‘ a la Mexicana ’ , but the poor souls only look like cabbages and to tell you the naked truth they look absolutely impossible . ' |
| 21 | Meh'Lindi had darted back into a service tunnel and was decamping as fast as could be , cradling Grimm who was wailing like a baby . |
| 22 | Meanwhile I noticed my friends paddling by smiling , laughing and waving at me as they obviously did not realise why I was screaming as loud as I possibly could . |
| 23 | And less than two minutes later she was sleeping as peacefully as the five-year-old child in the bedroom next door . |
| 24 | He was smiling grimly now as he came towards her . |