Example sentences of "as [adv] [conj] he [verb] the " in BNC.
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1 | Locke 's friends commended him for demolishing Proast 's ecclesiastical regime as effectively as he had the absolutist civil polity of Sir Robert Filmer [ q.v . ] . |
2 | Baldwin was to undermine the radical right as effectively as he disarmed the left in the inter-war period . |
3 | And Beuno said nothing , but he looked at him as mildly as he looks at the trout that he catches in the stream , and the doctor said , ‘ Until tomorrow ’ , and he left , and Beuno watched him go as mildly as he watches the sheep when he frees them from where they are caught in the hedge . |
4 | He recorded the arrangements made with workmen he employed as carefully as he chronicled the minutiae of his social life . |
5 | Since he looked after her as carefully as he did the rest , the princess too was happy to share their life in the forest . |
6 | And off she went , driving carefully , through South London , and east , and under the river , and north , and up the A113 , towards the Garfield Centre , thinking of Brian frying up the cold boiled potatoes for himself and their son Sam , chopping parsley , frying eggs and bacon , delicious ; Brian handled the frying pan as confidently as he handled the car , eggs never broke for Brian , he had a firm grasp of the material world , of pan handles and gear levers and of her own warm body , of garden spades and wayward boilers , of carving knives and power drills and saws and scissors and invisible screws ; he treated all these things as his friends and allies , an Ideal Husband , she sometimes teased him : and yet , and yet , he spent his days and his nights teaching abstractions , he spent his time with words , words , words . |
7 | And he had six people to work with who would n't waste time on stupid questions about the baby 's emotional welfare , who saw as clearly as he did the greater fascination in the sheaves of data they had already collected on the child since his birth . |
8 | He felt just as strongly as he had the night before . |
9 | If he runs the country as well as he ran the campaign we 'll be alright . ’ |
10 | Fergus , who had stormed castles and laid siege to fortresses and who knew the arts of infiltration as well as he knew the Twelve Books of Honour , found himself summoning every shred and every tag-end of legend and myth and lore ever whispered or recounted or imagined about the Prison . |
11 | Robert , especially , knows this , for he knows the style of my speech as well as he knows the rhythm of my walk or the vocabulary of my gestures . |
12 | There was over an hour left when Malcolm came in , and had some of the others defended as well as he did the game might have been saved . |
13 | He gets it checked as frequently as he checks the bottom line . |
14 | Shearer took the ribbing as philosophically as he took the tackles , then assured anxious witnesses the goals would return . |
15 | ‘ And , ’ said Henry as lightly as he felt the conversation warranted . |