Example sentences of "as [adv] as his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Curiously husky , his voice beguiled her ears as powerfully as his hands were seducing her body , caressing her naked skin beneath her simple top , tantalising the sensitised surface , warm and demanding , seeking the clasp of her flesh-coloured bra , dismantling it with a sure touch that might have come from practice but could equally well have been attributed to simple deduction , except that nothing was simple about this man who had already knowingly conquered her body … åd , unknowingly , her heart as well . |
| 2 | Yet Mario Monti , the rector of Milan 's Bocconi University and a respected economist , has raised doubts about Mr Fazio 's ability to safeguard the Bank 's independence as successfully as his predecessor . |
| 3 | He wanted another beer , but Gari had him on one-a-day for as long as his organic rice diet was holding up . |
| 4 | Then , when it started to go down , he 'd open his eyes and concentrate on Emily for as long as his self-control would allow . |
| 5 | He held a metal cup in his teeth , which were perfect in his bearded face and glittered as brilliantly as his big , dark eyes under the street lamps . |
| 6 | He waited for the girl 's regular visits to the sick cow just as impatiently as his dog waited to be fed . |
| 7 | His exalted mood faded as swiftly as his dream . |
| 8 | He signed the despatch with his name and rank , then handed it to Blasendorf who promised it would be delivered as swiftly as his horses could cross country . |
| 9 | Hateley 's reputation stalks just as largely as his physique . |
| 10 | Up in the balcony Jock Lennox applauded , and some of Rafferty 's regulars laughed as Paddy gathered the little child up in his arms as easily as his heavy vestments would allow him . |
| 11 | At one time the two water companies were in active competition and any person paying the rates , whether landlord or tenant , could change his water company as easily as his butcher or baker … although this state of things has long since ceased , and the companies have come to an arrangement so that the people can not now change their supply , all the same , the result of their earlier competition remains . |
| 12 | Now he would sleep as peacefully as his mother and brother in their unmarked grave in the woods . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , Plomer shows a fine ear for the dramatic exchanges of his story : his half-rhymes are as just as his formal pieces — songs , homilies and ballads . |
| 14 | But as quickly as his arm had gone out , it returned to his side , jerked back there as if by a spring ; and he noticed that his action had n't gone unnoticed by Mick . |
| 15 | He got up from his seat as quickly as his thick furs and old muscles would allow , kicked some slates and books out of his way across the glass floor and started inspecting a pillar a few metres away . |
| 16 | Thereafter , his form fluctuated as irregularly as his training and his domestic affairs . |
| 17 | In the 1930s Auden & Co. had been another ; with Auden himself , as early as his undergraduate days at Oxford in the late 1920s , confidently apportioning literary roles to Isherwood , Spender and himself . |
| 18 | He 'd left the local school as early as his birthday would allow and had n't really done anything for the following year except watch his father die . |
| 19 | Joe took a walk along the Walworth Road , going as briskly as his stiff knee would allow . |
| 20 | From the yet more gloomy expression on his normally lugubrious face it was evident that he had resigned himself to her companionship at least as far as his hotel perched up far above the sea . |
| 21 | Nevertheless he was a most intelligent ad gifted ma , even , so to say , a scholar , though , as far as his scholarship was concerned , well , in a word , his scholarship did n't amount to much , to nothing at all I think . |
| 22 | As far as his cock was concerned he felt somewhat in the position of a toddler trying to fly a kite . |
| 23 | As he told the story , probably with some exaggeration , Evelyn is supposed quite often to have gone out , perhaps only as far as his aunt 's house nearby to borrow some sugar , and to have failed to return . |
| 24 | The thorn in Pollini 's side ( at least as far as his recordings are concerned ) is his occasional refusal to gild the lily . |
| 25 | I never got as far as his nose . |
| 26 | As far as his destination was concerned , the clue had to be in the dedication . |
| 27 | Not only have food costs been above average , but the labour turnover has been relatively high , which is a little odd since Fred is generally considered to be genial and well liked ( though we must add that we have found no evidence that this is true as far as his staff are concerned ) . |
| 28 | However , there are fears that the chancellor will not dare go as far as his critics wish and instead stick to a one per cent cut . |
| 29 | He 's being taught to speak Italian by his new friends , but there 's no real change as far as his job is concerned . |
| 30 | But , as far as his memory went , the black markings were new . |