Example sentences of "[adv] as it [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tug of war was still going on , just as fiercely as it ever had , only now Charles was tugging her towards Damian Flint while Jamie hurled accusations of betrayal . |
| 2 | Labour 's spokesman on food had come to the House thinking — unwisely as it soon turned out — that he was going to roast Mr Gummer . |
| 3 | The dominant response may at present be a favourable one , but this is only maintained so long as it implicitly accepted that functions are being successfully and rationally fulfilled . |
| 4 | Oh , yes , he was himself again , he would be trailing this glory after him for as long as it still shed lustre . |
| 5 | Its membership , appointed for renewable four-year terms , has grown over the years and has proved , as it was intended to be , a useful sounding board , especially as it quickly subdivided itself into specialist groups of experts on specific topics — in which , in fact , most of the work of the Committee was to be done . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ The EC meat does n't keep very well , especially as it often comes quite a distance . |
| 7 | Staring at the door , Ellie seemed quite unable to tear her eyes away as it slowly opened and Feargal walked in . |
| 8 | There was always a danger that the legend would become larger than the man , just as it certainly has with his close friend Warren Beatty and thus it is easy to see why Jack Nicholson now guards himself well and repels invaders . |
| 9 | Firstly , what would happen to the profitability of Britain 's most successful consumer credit organisation if it mailed debt collection notices to its customers on ( typically ) just two dates each year , just as it currently mails its personal loan promotions ? |
| 10 | just as it always had been . |
| 11 | There was silence , filled only by the glare of expression , the tension that sparked between them , just as it always had , always would as long as they lived and breathed . |
| 12 | Fascination with the older girls won just as it always did and she crossed the landing , an expanse of lino dotted with what her mother referred to as ‘ slip mats ’ , pushed open the door and went in . |
| 13 | She had put her hair up so as to look older than her sixteen years but even so she straightened her music and her shoulders with such self-consciousness that the maturity of her voice came as a shock to him just as it always did . |
| 14 | She threw up until the nausea passed , just as it always did if she drank alcohol , but now it was almost as if her body already knew alcohol was bad for the tiny life growing inside her . |
| 15 | Actually so far as I can see it 's sod 's law for women , just as it always has been . |
| 16 | Just as it always has been . |
| 17 | At the highest levels of attainment in developed societies , like postgraduate research fellowships , or master classes in the arts , this is exactly what does happen — just as it always has with farmers , hunters , mothers , shamans , poets , and makers of things tangible or mental . |
| 18 | He hesitated , his anger subsiding quickly as it always did , and leaving him feeling exhausted . |
| 19 | They ate less and less , never venturing outside the villa , the physical aspect of their relationship consuming them both as Damian began to take her beyond her new-found sensuality , smashing barriers as he went , teaching her everything about her body and his until she thrilled to the power of knowing how to touch and kiss him to make him breathless with ecstasy , whispering incoherent , urgent words of encouragement to her until they both fell into their usual sleep of pleasurable exhaustion , completely united by the passion that raged just as highly between them now as it ever had from the very beginning . |
| 20 | The resurgence of ‘ fashion ’ as a topic high on the agenda , the preoccupation with food and clothing as matters of status and importance , provides as big and as successful a distraction now as it ever did . |
| 21 | The history of the Ottoman Empire , for example , is only dealt with here in so far as it immediately affects non-Turkish Europe . |
| 22 | For most , indeed , the title , applying uniquely as it now does to Jesus , also implies God . |
| 23 | It suited her as well as it always did , the creamy-white silk throwing her olive skin into greater contrast against her thick raven hair and dark Mediterranean eyes . |
| 24 | Even as it formally commissioned its $100 million Tencel fibers plant … |
| 25 | For the rest , the only variety was provided by the decision of the President of the Board of Trade , somewhat eccentrically as it now appears , to change his name from Lloyd-Greame to Cunliffe-Lister . |
| 26 | If the safeguards we propose are adopted , we are confident this can work as successfully as it already does in the magistrates ’ and county courts . ’ |
| 27 | Unlike T.V. , the microphone ‘ knows ’ if you are not sincere , do n't know your facts , just stupid , etc. as it only hears your voice ( no facial expression , hand gestures , etc . ) |