Example sentences of "[pers pn] as [adv] as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've tried it to my peril a couple of times , and it really does get quite embarrassing , so that 's a difference , and of course on the grey handset , there 's a pitch control underneath as well as a volume control , okay , so they 're a bit more modern , but I do n't like these actually , because you ca n't hug them as easily as the cream ones , they just do n't sit on your shoulder . |
| 2 | And this was one of them as far as the demon was concerned ) . |
| 3 | His fingers slipped between her thighs as she parted them as eagerly as a girl whose lover had returned from the wars . |
| 4 | It hit me as forcibly as a blow to the stomach . |
| 5 | Some time later , my headache had receded , my costume was discarded and my bunk was clasping me as tenderly as a mother 's arms . |
| 6 | Perhaps you 'll accompany me as far as the Rope Walk ? ’ |
| 7 | AB : Well it was always fairly straightforward for me as far as the repertoire goes . |
| 8 | Fincara 's maddening laughter rippled out , and she stepped over to him as easily as a dancer . |
| 9 | When he reaches back into his jacket pocket for that inevitable pack of cheap cigars I 'm watching him as carefully as a dog with a drunken master , unsure whether he 'll get a kick or a bowl of food . |
| 10 | He made good speed down to the river , and then there was a path to aid him as far as the mill . |
| 11 | His momentum carried him as far as the launcher and with out-thrust foot he sent it keeling over on to its side . |
| 12 | I watched him as far as the corner of the curator 's garden , and saw him turn in alongside the hedge . |
| 13 | The two Longner men who rode one on either side their borrowed minstrel brought him as far as the gatehouse , waiting in silence as he dismounted . |
| 14 | That night the Wordsworths walked back with him as far as the miner 's house , a short distance from the beech tree above Woodlands Farm where they often parted . |
| 15 | One moment the sun was on her face , the next raindrops the size of golf balls were pelting down on her , drenching her as thoroughly as a bathroom shower . |
| 16 | She clung to him while he held himself hard and poised over her for a moment , and then he parted her qivering thighs , slipping himself high inside her as naturally as a silver shoehorn easing on a silk slipper . |
| 17 | All the same John insisted on coming with her as far as the ticket barrier , and stood holding her hand while she attempted to say good-bye . |
| 18 | The absurd thoughts had got her as far as the foot of that horrible stairway , then she had felt the level floor of another passage beneath her feet . |
| 19 | Isabel 's shaking legs got her as far as the bench before she collapsed . |
| 20 | Jackie limped with her as far as the crossroads . |
| 21 | The moors stretched before her as far as the eye could see , in fold after fold of snow-covered dunes . |
| 22 | When it was time for Rosie to leave , Ruth walked with her as far as the corner of the street . |
| 23 | Her hand lay in mine as lightly as a bird 's wing . |
| 24 | The countryman takes a great interest in the weather : he has to because his living is bound up with it ; and he observes it as closely as a scientist watching a long and intricate experiment . |
| 25 | He could hit it as far as a 3-wood — and it won him the 1973 Open . |
| 26 | The rule has been stated often enough , because plaintiffs willing to " try it on " sometimes try it as far as the Court of Appeal . |
| 27 | They fully considered that there was merit , great merit , in running it as far as the Council was concerned . |
| 28 | Gravellier made it as far as the door . |
| 29 | The cloth for their suits was cord ( corduroy ) , as I 've told you ; but sometimes they went in for a suit of heavy tweed — staple tweed it was called ; and at that time they made it as hard as a board . |
| 30 | They drove us as far as the mud roads would allow in the royal land-rover , and down to the bay where a pearl-oyster hatchery was being tried for the first time ; and at night there were more festivities , and endless delectable maidens vying for our attentions … |