Example sentences of "as quickly [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had anyone been looking in the direction of Miss Danziger they would have observed a faint smile gathering at the corners of her mouth and fading as quickly as it formed . |
| 2 | The plant died off almost as quickly as it grew . |
| 3 | Moran hardly heard ; all resentment left him as quickly as it had come : McQuaid was here and it was Monaghan Day . |
| 4 | One afternoon a nurserymaid from the castle had appeared with Richard , and her distress had melted as quickly as it had grown . |
| 5 | The light was extinguished as quickly as it had come , and her shoulders curled with disappointment . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | His career collapsed as quickly as it had begun , and he died from alcoholism in 1957 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It transpired that the snow went as quickly as it had come , the road was opened and supplies began getting through regularly again . |
| 12 | It had been forgotten as quickly as it had begun . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As quickly as it had arrived , the squall passed . |
| 15 | The laughter fled from her eyes as quickly as it had come . |
| 16 | Now that the rush of anger had abated just as quickly as it had risen she felt cold , icy tremors rippling along her veins . |
| 17 | Mandy , her battle-lust having died down as quickly as it had set in , flopped down on Charity 's bed , and patted the spot beside her . |
| 18 | His laughter stopped as quickly as it had begun . |
| 19 | Why did he spend his life making films that would be forgotten almost as quickly as it took to make them ? |
| 20 | Otherwise , what we 've built here could disappear as quickly as it came . ’ |
| 21 | The whistling of the wind was low , disappearing as quickly as it came , ruffling her hair . |
| 22 | She crouched at the firebox , shooting the wood into its mouth as quickly as it came , then cowered back from the sudden heat as the blaze was roused again . |
| 23 | Since recessive threats to the money markets occurred in the ‘ big bangs ’ of the 1980s , the enterprise culture has shown it can remove jobs as quickly as it creates them . |
| 24 | Sheringham crossed low towards the unmarked Clough but the opening disappeared as quickly as it appeared , Schmeichel diving bravely to whip away the ball . |
| 25 | If the sport grows over the next 10 years as quickly as it has in the past five , I could make a lot of money . ’ |
| 26 | Yet the question has to be asked : how much is this really an artificial crisis which will subside as quickly as it has arisen ? |
| 27 | It does not necessarily work as quickly as it did in Sylvia 's case — but it always succeeds , provided the patient does his or her homework regularly and conscientiously . |
| 28 | Then the anger subsides , as quickly as it flared . |