Example sentences of "[adv] as it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mortaring stopped just as suddenly as it had started , and it was quiet again . |
| 2 | Then it cut off as suddenly as it had started . |
| 3 | Then , just as suddenly as it had appeared , it dived , sliding back into the earth at an immense speed . |
| 4 | The pain had left as suddenly as it had come , except for a small reminder in her back . |
| 5 | It died as suddenly as it had risen . |
| 6 | When we actually reached the reef , with calm water erupting into foaming waves twenty feet high as they hit the rocks , the Mantela bucked like a frightened horse , sank into a trough , reared up again , and then , as suddenly as it had started , the old tub was through the creamy foam of the passage and had settled into the lazy waters of the lagoon . |
| 7 | It fell silent as suddenly as it had begun . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But just as suddenly as it had begun all this ended three years later , leaving the halls deserted . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Lacuna 's anger had disappeared as suddenly as it had arrived . |
| 12 | The beating ceased , as suddenly as it had begun . |
| 13 | I could sense Lili turning her head to look at me , but the urge to talk , to confess , had left me as suddenly as it had come . |
| 14 | His arm waggled , as if he were groping for something , and then his hand appeared as softly and suddenly as it had vanished : holding the fifth ball . |
| 15 | He thought for a moment that it might be some kind of game , that their running would cease as suddenly as it had begun , that they 'd stand like statues on the sand , waiting for him to catch up with them . |
| 16 | But his words had deflated Robbie 's anger as suddenly as it had blown up . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This was largely but not exclusively an obsession of Congregationalists , much as it had been of mediaeval bishops . |
| 19 | The coach drove back through Cardiff , and past the High School — which looked , and was , much as it had been . |
| 20 | Life went on at home much as it had done for years . |
| 21 | Unionist concerns were still as much with traditional areas of disagreement with the Liberals as with the War ; the UBC made the running with its concern to shield British industry from the war , much as it had previously been intended to protect it through tariffs , and Stanley Baldwin first made his name through its committees . |
| 22 | The Bike Sub-Committee was still being urged to proceed , yet a month later the subject was adjourned , only to be urged on again the month following — ‘ so long as it had a corrugated iron roof ’ , presumably a financial stringency to keep the cost down to £15 . |
| 23 | When human life could be expected to last two or three times as long as it had done in the Middle Ages , great changes were bound to occur in the way men thought about themselves . |
| 24 | So long as it had appeared to be an alternative force to the Labour party , he kept clear . |
| 25 | So long as the House was not bound by strict party ties and so long as it had control of the major part of its own timetable , the general task of commenting on and questioning government policy was relatively simple . |
| 26 | He could hardly limp across the room and offer her a plastic spoon , especially as it had already been used . |
| 27 | Having made sure from Miss Miggs that she would n't mind if the mistletoe in her apple-tree were sold , especially as it had never occurred to her that she could sell it , three excited Brownies hurried away from Sundial Cottage and did n't pause until they reached Anne 's father 's greengrocery shop . |
| 28 | Its huge success grated even more , especially as it had been a Labour paper until Murdoch had bought it and turned it into a cornerstone of his international media empire . |
| 29 | The publication by Lobachevsky in 1829 of a consistent ( non-Euclidean ) geometry , in which Euclid 's parallel postulate is denied , should perhaps have turned mathematicians ' attention back to a study of axioms , especially as it had long been appreciated that Euclid 's use of the axiomatic method was , to say the least , inconsistent ( [ 106 ] contains stronger views . ) |
| 30 | And she also reminded herself that even if it had included a kiss it did n't mean a thing — especially as it had come from a man who was living in the outback to get away from women . |