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Example sentences of "as [adv] [conj] it had " in BNC.

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1	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 .
2	The mortaring stopped just as suddenly as it had started , and it was quiet again .
3	Then it cut off as suddenly as it had started .
4	Then , just as suddenly as it had appeared , it dived , sliding back into the earth at an immense speed .
5	The pain had left as suddenly as it had come , except for a small reminder in her back .
6	It died as suddenly as it had risen .
7	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 .
8	It fell silent as suddenly as it had begun .
9	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 .
10	But just as suddenly as it had begun all this ended three years later , leaving the halls deserted .
11	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 .
12	Lacuna 's anger had disappeared as suddenly as it had arrived .
13	The beating ceased , as suddenly as it had begun .
14	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 .
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	The burst of enthusiasm died as swiftly as it had kindled .
19	But to be told that he could not make it was to be told that this gift could disappear as unpredictably as it had arrived .
20	Moran hardly heard ; all resentment left him as quickly as it had come : McQuaid was here and it was Monaghan Day .
21	One afternoon a nurserymaid from the castle had appeared with Richard , and her distress had melted as quickly as it had grown .
22	The light was extinguished as quickly as it had come , and her shoulders curled with disappointment .
23	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 .
24	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 .
25	the affair blew over as quickly as it had begun , for Bayley removed his sons from the School at the end of the Summer Term .
26	His career collapsed as quickly as it had begun , and he died from alcoholism in 1957 .
27	The expression of good-humoured contempt had vanished as quickly as it had appeared , and suddenly Rostov realised that he had missed an opportunity to relax the tension which existed between them .
28	It transpired that the snow went as quickly as it had come , the road was opened and supplies began getting through regularly again .
29	It had been forgotten as quickly as it had begun .
30	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 .