Example sentences of "[adj] as [pers pn] [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her voice was calm as she said to Sisters Monica and Aloysius . |
| 2 | Higher than its current rate of 1.8m ( 6.2% ) , but probably not as high as it had to in the mid-1980s . |
| 3 | To discover whether Jews were as compassionate as they claimed to be he donned dark spectacles and stuck a notice to the rear window of his Buick : ‘ Careful ! |
| 4 | He says a rape in daylight involving an 11 year old as she walked to school is particularly serious . |
| 5 | She was a clever old — Well , let's just say she was cleverer than Maurice thought , though not as clever as she needed to be . |
| 6 | He grunted something unintelligible as he went to the security cupboard and slammed it shut , twisting his key in the lock . |
| 7 | It was getting dark as we got to the mountains of Burma . |
| 8 | Nellie looked very serious as she listened to her battered husband reliving his terrifying experience . |
| 9 | Yanto tried to be serious as he explained to the girls , which was n't easy with Billy 's skinny six foot frame shaking with mirth alongside him . |
| 10 | Normandin was a precious link to that other world that held John and I was more excited than nervous as we walked to his apartment near the Champs-Elysées . |
| 11 | Rain felt sick as she listened to him . |
| 12 | Do n't answer , she adjured herself ; it is n't mandatory ; he 's only doing it to annoy you — then found she was totally incapable of being as rude as she wanted to be . |
| 13 | Perhaps it was n't as cold as it seemed to her distorted senses . |
| 14 | Having reached 50 off 71 balls , Simmons was unstoppable as he sprinted to his third hundred in one-day internationals from a mere 102 balls . |
| 15 | But he was not as fast as he wanted to be . |
| 16 | It no longer seems as obvious as it used to that I can detach myself from my interactions with other things , observe them objectively , and arrive at facts about them wholly independent of my own reactions and decisions . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , in her mind , she had visions of the Brownings rattling along in high good humour with all manner of beautiful vistas to right and left as they trotted to Arezzo and she could hear the conversation and Pen 's excited laughter . |
| 18 | Their absence cost ‘ Quins , who lost 25–14 , a victory which enhanced the Saints ’ title ambitious as they moved to third in the table , one point behind leaders Orrell . |
| 19 | My earliest recollection of Fred was when , as a schoolboy , I watched spellbound as he returned to his home in Belfast holding aloft the old Claret Jug , signifying his victory at Hoylake in 1947 . |
| 20 | For the British , then , the picture was not ultimately as black as it appeared to be in 1945. for their part , the Americans viewed the British with considerable suspicion , and harboured their traditional fears of being outmanoeuvred . |
| 21 | She said she was going to make a Will saying they could both stay on , without paying rent , as long as they wanted to . |
| 22 | It 's lovely if you can stay in your flat as long as you needed to . |
| 23 | Emily looked troubled as she turned to Mr Zamoyski . |
| 24 | A swirl of orange as he lurched to the window . |
| 25 | But in the present case it was time to take a stand , to declare once and for all that on this occasion at least the truth was as obvious and evident as it appeared to be . |
| 26 | Timings were not available as we went to press but it seems that this year 's performance honours must go to the Riddles machine . |
| 27 | He got drunk that night , though not as drunk as he pretended to be . |
| 28 | She was n't as shocked as she pretended to be , though ; it was likely that was the way it had been . |
| 29 | The cultured voice had lost its clear edge , become slurred as it reverted to its mother tongue . |
| 30 | Whether or not a deal would be forged before the start of SCO Forum was unclear as we went to press , but whatever happens , SCO says there will be an SCO V.3.2.5 product released before any SVR4 offering is made available . |