Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [adv] as " in BNC.

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1 If you are not , you may be heading for potential losses which could have been avoided and you are almost certainly not trading as effectively or profitably as you should !
2 We may not want it but the government is going to demand it and we as custodians of the services on the part of the people of Cambridge , are going to have to do as sensibly and sensitively as possible .
3 Services at 8am and 10am as usual .
4 If you must interrupt , do so as gently and courteously as possible .
5 She had taken to her marriage-bed , therefore , a certain natural innocence and all the ignorance considered essential to her station , of which Tristan had relieved her as gently and pleasantly as he had been able , his passion lacking the intensity which might , on those honeymoon nights , have alarmed her ; being , instead , a lighthearted matter , full of the nonchalant reflections of the man himself .
6 He started the engine as gently and quietly as possible .
7 The morning stirred in the trees and interrupted the sleep of stem and leaf and fruit and blossom as gently and efficiently as a mother lifting the cover from her child 's bed and blowing on her face in play to wake her .
8 In all these areas , librarianship has developed a considerable body of constantly re-examined knowledge , a fact duly recognized by ( for example ) the Council for Educational Technology , which turned to it naturally and appropriately as issues developed within its purview .
9 Finally , on an in-breath , let the hands come in and then as you breathe out , let the arms float down to your sides .
10 As accessories , the Libyans who supplied those components were as guilty as hell , as guilty morally and legally as anyone directly involved in commissioning or committing mass murder .
11 Making for home as swiftly and inconspicuously as possible , no doubt .
12 She , who refused help swiftly and automatically as someone accustomed to live alone does .
13 He turned the car , his hands moving swiftly and expertly as he manoeuvred it in the narrow lane .
14 DW warrants that the Program will perform basically and substantially as indicated in the manual(s) when and if all the procedures are followed as indicated .
15 He seemed to be trying to pull himself together and just as the bus appeared at the mouth of the square , he murmured : ‘ Do n't worry about Mama ; she will have understood what you were thinking , and in any case I can tell her if you 'd like . ’
16 Children , quite often , who were classed brutally but realistically as orphans and rarely identified .
17 Black gets it into the box Rozario got a header in but even as he headed the ball he limped away again and if he 'd have been properly fit then he would have really powered that one in .
18 My plan was to increase my pace from normal ( around 3 miles per hour ) to brisk ( 3.5–4.0 miles per hour ) and to walk longer and further as the weeks went by .
19 You know then we thought right , we 're not just gon na forget about this you know , we 'll we 'll carry on for a little while longer and then as soon as the ball really started rolling , er personally I thought well you ca n't back down now , .
20 D. A. I used to be on an adjoining beat in Cressington Park and I started at the park gates at one side of the road and there was a policeman on the other side of the road — you would n't cross the road to talk to him … you were n't allowed to talk to the public — that was gossiping , idling your time , failing to work your beat — three charges straight away and soon as the sergeant reported you .
21 Various terms are used to describe children and young people who are no longer at home , frequently incorrectly and often as though they were interchangeable ( De'Ath , 1986 ) .
22 The tentacle came out of her body as easily and unendingly as a roll tape measure .
23 While Gemma , who had never thought very much about it , her own education having come to her just as easily and plentifully as soap and hot water and extremely private sanitary arrangements , had found it something to think about now , when any new thought would have been welcome .
24 To avoid this happening to me , I am being careful to describe what I saw as exactly and carefully as possible .
25 In other words , the ‘ do exactly and unconditionally as we say and then we 'll talk but the talks will come to nothing as per usual ’ attitude .
26 In fact , in her continuing ‘ effort to be objective ’ , O'Keeffe based more and more of her imagery on observable forms in nature , and she represented them as exactly and precisely as she could .
27 He knew Marshka would destroy him as effortlessly and unthinkingly as shelling peas .
28 All I could see of her was the tip of her nose on Richard 's other side , bobbing backwards and forwards as she walked , like a bird eating grain .
29 They moved nothing except their eyes , but they moved in perfect time to the footsteps , marking the position , flicking backwards and forwards as the human crossed the room above .
30 ‘ It 's true about Nicola Schreider , ’ Lucy confirmed , at length , rocking her baby son backwards and forwards as he showed signs of exercising the excellent lungs Charles had described .
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