Example sentences of "[prep] she as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lay on my back and watched it for a second , then got up and ran after her as fast as I could , again just because I knew I could n't catch her . |
| 2 | Since he looked after her as carefully as he did the rest , the princess too was happy to share their life in the forest . |
| 3 | She could see a decision path dividing in front of her as plainly as if it was real . |
| 4 | We have to live with her as well as you . |
| 5 | Jackie limped with her as far as the crossroads . |
| 6 | And , of course , I 'm in love with her as far as I 'm capable of loving anyone . |
| 7 | When it was time for Rosie to leave , Ruth walked with her as far as the corner of the street . |
| 8 | He left the cosy little restaurant to reappear a few minutes later with the announcement that her taxi was at the door and that he and Bob would go with her as far as her hotel . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | As he felt his own orgasm beginning to pulsate be felt her legs gripping him and drove his penis into her as hard as he could , bursting inside her like a dam . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was not all my imagination , this something came from her as well as from me — a joint umbilical cord , something we dared not speak of , of course , yet which we both knew was there . |
| 13 | The moors stretched before her as far as the eye could see , in fold after fold of snow-covered dunes . |
| 14 | I should be glad to hear what you are going to do about her as soon as possible . |
| 15 | Mrs Ross , Mrs Girdlestone added , had only her pension to live on , and she repeated that she would be glad if I could do something about her as soon as possible . |
| 16 | Moving to the fireplace , he touched the bell , and , when Rosa appeared , ordered briskly , ‘ Please bring Signorina Weston a coat , and pack an overnight bag for her as quickly as you can . ’ |
| 17 | She had spent Christmas with her sister 's family and her own two children in Toowoomba , but was back on deck today as if the festive season did n't exist , and this waiting for Faye 's baby was taking its toll on her as well as on everyone else . |
| 18 | The moment the Queen was warned the photos would appear in the Daily Mirror , she ordered copies to be made available to her as soon as possible . |
| 19 | I told Sir Henry about Laura Lyons , and that I wanted to speak to her as soon as possible . |
| 20 | The smell of oil clung to her as strongly as it did to the rags in the van . |
| 21 | The love-hate relationship was obvious to her as well as to Codron and the others around them . |
| 22 | And Ellen never replied now , not even with a note , though money was sent to her as regularly as ever . |
| 23 | It clung to her as surely as her shadow . |
| 24 | I 'm reacting to her as dotingly as infatuated Grimm or mooning Vitali . |
| 25 | They were her Aladdin 's caves and , ever since her inheritance , open to her as often as she chose , though for most of the year she contented herself with a reminder of them in the small parcels . |
| 26 | She suffered one paroxysm of doubt , the first and the last , and a matter of shame to her as often as she remembered it after , when the hour of noon came and passed , and no one sent for her to go into the town and fetch her father to the audience ; and when she ventured to enquire , she was told that one of his Grace 's clerks had already gone to summon Master Parry , and she need not concern herself in the matter . |
| 27 | They were out in the street and making their way back to Cotton Lane , and Billy had obviously decided to walk beside her as far as possible . |
| 28 | He released her , his fingers still loosely in the escaped strands of her hair , staring at her as blankly as if she were some phantom being from another incarnation , a mythical seductress beamed unexpectedly into the passenger seat of his car . |
| 29 | But she seemed to have got over her momentary embarrassment , so he smiled at her as warmly as he could , and she went away to eat her solitary lunch in the small bed-sitting-room alongside the nursery , which was the only part of the Unit that was n't monitored with cameras and tape recorders . |