Example sentences of "he [vb past] as [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Visits to Exeter he made as rarely as possible . |
| 2 | He made as swiftly as he could for the foyer . |
| 3 | He said you know , cos he lived as cheaply as he could while he was out there and |
| 4 | He cared as much as I do . |
| 5 | ‘ You were afraid then ? ’ he asked as softly as the noise of the plane allowed . |
| 6 | ‘ What shall we do this afternoon ? ’ he asked as casually as if they spent all their Wednesday afternoons together . |
| 7 | He got as far as the lawn , just out there , and then he stopped and stood , seemingly just staring at the house . |
| 8 | He got as far as lifting his head and getting one shoulder off the seat , but then collapsed back onto the leather , and let his eyes close . |
| 9 | He got as far as twelve , then he looked puzzled . |
| 10 | He got as far as Rugby before he was caught . |
| 11 | In the coalfields he read as avidly as ever , including in his reading books about the French revolution by Michelet and others . |
| 12 | He saw himself as a buffoon with nasty reserves of observation , a man with goonish spectacles clamped round his ears and perfidy in his guts , and he felt so appalled by his mistrust of an old friend who must surely be taken for an ally that he tried as fast as possible to invent some headway on the project about Berlin . |
| 13 | She had few friends to whom he objected as strongly as Bridget . |
| 14 | He was really playing great tennis , ’ McEnroe conceded , ‘ I did n't realise he moved as well as he did . |
| 15 | He moved as quietly as he could . |
| 16 | He moved as quietly as he could towards the connecting door , grasped the handle and with a single movement flung the door open . |
| 17 | He moved as quickly as a squirrel , half-falling from knot to knot . |
| 18 | He stopped as abruptly as he had begun . |
| 19 | He stopped as abruptly as she had done . |
| 20 | He trembled as intensely as a fly whirs its wings , and stopped talking . |
| 21 | Angel had never had a lesson ; he played as naturally as he walked . |
| 22 | ‘ I am the Conservatives ’ Jeremy Irons , ’ he murmured as apologetically as if he were standing at the rostrum with a brand new Oscar . |
| 23 | He was mostly on the defensive and , towards the end , he came as near as possible to resignation , but throughout he gave remarkably little ground on either issue . |
| 24 | To do Haverford justice , he was n't altogether happy about his lack of rapport with his daughter ; at times he came as near as he ever could to feeling guilty about it . |
| 25 | What he saw he painted as exactly as could be painted but he certainly knew when to catch each view in its most romantic moment . |
| 26 | He turned as naturally as any other cleric to the small domestic hospitality . |
| 27 | Then , when playing in the top flight for us , he shone as brightly as any of the great players who opposed him and gained his first England Under 23 cap in October 1970 in recognition of his undisputed talent . |
| 28 | He lobbied as hard as he could — he seemed tireless and undaunted even to me — but it was an uphill struggle . |
| 29 | He walked as far as the cart , took a packet of cigarettes from his jacket that was hanging on the tailgate and stood , sullenly smoking . |
| 30 | He walked as far as the beaches and along the deserted sea front . |