Example sentences of "[vb past] as [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robbie 's colour fled as rapidly as it had appeared , leaving her face ashen with anger . |
| 2 | His laughter stopped as quickly as it had begun . |
| 3 | I was buried alive , the pummelling stopped as suddenly as it had started , I heaved myself up and the earth and muck fell off me . |
| 4 | Shamlou 's smile vanished as fast as it had come . |
| 5 | Hari 's wash of hurt pride and anger vanished as suddenly as it had come , though she realized that Craig 's words were no more than flattery . |
| 6 | The father was on for the whole of the second act of The Hooded Owl , and never had that part of the play passed as slowly as it did that evening . |
| 7 | His career collapsed as quickly as it had begun , and he died from alcoholism in 1957 . |
| 8 | Once Baldwin 's decision was made , the right-wing plot collapsed as suddenly as it had grown up and , as always after prolonged but successful mental strain , he felt free . |
| 9 | This one , however , was to be far more personally taxing for Mrs Whitehouse , for the apparent consensus of opinion that surrounded her campaign against Thorsen evaporated as quickly as it had developed . |
| 10 | It died as suddenly as it had risen . |
| 11 | The burst of enthusiasm died as swiftly as it had kindled . |
| 12 | But that time must yet remain a few days ahead , while everywhere lay in the throes of a natural disaster — the nature of which had yet to be determined — and while the snow still fell as thickly as it did . |
| 13 | The knowledge disappeared as quickly as it had come ; but it had come in time to remind her of why she had waited so anxiously for Johnny to visit her ; to remind her of why she had longed for his return with such a burning impatience . |
| 14 | Sheringham crossed low towards the unmarked Clough but the opening disappeared as quickly as it appeared , Schmeichel diving bravely to whip away the ball . |
| 15 | The impulse to cry disappeared as inexplicably as it had come . |
| 16 | It transpired that the snow went as quickly as it had come , the road was opened and supplies began getting through regularly again . |
| 17 | We hope the trip continued as well as it had begun , and that you got home refreshed . |
| 18 | We were pleased to have your Easter card , and hope that the year continued as well as it seems to have begun . |
| 19 | As it became clear that the Bolsheviks were prepared to make peace on terms which fully restored Polish territorial integrity , the wave of anti-war feeling subsided as quickly as it had appeared . |
| 20 | Her ordeal ended as strangely as it began and without any apparent reason . |