Example sentences of "as [adj] [conj] it [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It mattered as little as it seemed to matter to Lucy that they would have — yet another — three weeks apart . |
| 2 | That this would be an inappropriate objection is evident from the fact that the Punch cartoon I mentioned earlier would have been almost as funny if it had figured a human fisherman rather than a kingfisher . |
| 3 | Her own strong and unthinking rejection of him had shocked her as much as it had shocked him . |
| 4 | And the tone of the voice seemed to surprise Sister Aloysius as much as it had done the Mother Superior . |
| 5 | Unemployment problems put paid to Labour 's political prospects in the early 1930s just as much as it had helped the party to rise to political power in the 1920s . |
| 6 | For , proving that he cared for his family every bit as much as it had seemed , he said , ‘ Hello , Travis , come in . |
| 7 | It did n't feel as cold as it had done earlier in the day . |
| 8 | In 1933 roughly 4,000 banks shut their doors , and the United States was left with only half as many as it had had in 1929 . |
| 9 | In France the factionalism from which the country suffered was largely inspired by the nobility , so that command of the army , as the tragedy experienced at Agincourt in 1415 demonstrated , was chiefly in the hands of noble leaders who gave the army a character as noble as it had had in the 1330s . |
| 10 | He quickly realised that , tactically , the situation at Verdun was not quite as desperate as it had seemed at first sight . |
| 11 | The murderer thought about it , still finding it almost as amusing as it had seemed at the time ; the murderer 's sense of humour was childlike , adolescent at the best , but secretive . |