Example sentences of "as [adv] [conj] [conj] [pron] was " in BNC.

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1 She instructed him to wash her , and was surprised when he soaped her as gently as if she was a baby .
2 I never made more friends as easily as when I was among people whose language I spoke badly and who barely spoke mine at all .
3 I must have studied her with attention for I find that I can at this moment , however reluctantly , see her face before me as distinctly as though I was still sitting in that coffee bar with a quarter of an inch of the brown dregs left in my cup .
4 She could see a decision path dividing in front of her as plainly as if it was real .
5 ‘ With this one there was very little injury and as well as that she was quite a big girl and it may very well be that at the end of the day we could say that she did n't resist to the last and if she did n't then of course it 's not rape it 's a different crime , indecent assault . ’
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