Example sentences of "[vb past] as [adv] [conj] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am the Conservatives ’ Jeremy Irons , ’ he murmured as apologetically as if he were standing at the rostrum with a brand new Oscar . |
| 2 | ‘ What shall we do this afternoon ? ’ he asked as casually as if they spent all their Wednesday afternoons together . |
| 3 | ‘ Did you want me , Myra ? ’ she asked as calmly as if they had been discussing the weather and not within an ace of making either love or war . |
| 4 | Then one evening as she was tidying up the room he said as quietly as if he were taking rifle aim , ‘ There 's no need for you to go turning the whole place upside down . |
| 5 | Lee had felt the emotional voltage in the room heighten to a point when she thought that Philippa would slam the door behind her , hard , but the door closed as gently as if there were a baby asleep in the house . |