Example sentences of "[adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where we have probably not exploited it sufficiently as yet is in bringing children — the readers themselves — into ensuing discussions . |
| 2 | older women , losing height a lot of pain from these fractures and it 's bones that are too porous so they 're not holding you up sufficiently as you get older . |
| 3 | We are not just talking power-dressing for women ; Armani makes men look even better than the fairer sex in a way that 's so thoroughly macho it 's no wonder the world 's aggro merchants have taken him to their hearts as eagerly as Hollywood 's glitterati . |
| 4 | Donald was nodding eagerly as she talked . |
| 5 | However , his easy charm soon won her over and before long , she looked forward to her riding lesson as eagerly as her mother . |
| 6 | Nobody suggested discouraging emigration , but it was certainly not welcomed as eagerly as in earlier decades , and the flow may have declined a little . |
| 7 | Battler looked at him eagerly as he came back into the room . |
| 8 | His fingers slipped between her thighs as she parted them as eagerly as a girl whose lover had returned from the wars . |
| 9 | Both maids came out , and although there were only two of them they seemed to surround and overwhelm her , not threateningly , but eagerly as though she brought gifts . |
| 10 | He looked up eagerly as Bernice walked over to him . |
| 11 | Stitch 's nose had twitched eagerly as he took in the size of the Imperial . |
| 12 | Once we had got our jobs for the morning we set about then eagerly as everything had to be perfect right down to the last detail . |
| 13 | ‘ How was your first day as Damian 's secretary ? ’ he asked weakly , but his eyes gleamed with a new reason to live , and he listened eagerly as she told him half-truths about her new job . |
| 14 | He flung the bedclothes back but not nearly so purposefully as heretofore , and he stayed on his back beside Clarissa who begged him not to go shouting just for once , because that was what the gramophone girl wanted , did n't he see ? |
| 15 | Robyn walked forward into the brightly lit , ultra-modern kitchen as purposefully as she could manage and took the mug of steaming coffee he held out to her with shaking hands . |
| 16 | She parked her car and strode through the grand , carved doorway , her heels clicking purposefully as she headed for the reception desk . |
| 17 | The Advisory Committee has agreed with the Director 's proposal-either as it stood or subject to specified modifica-tion ; |
| 18 | The Colonel was used to acting in loco parentis and would certainly not have responded as warmly as he had done to Miss Danziger 's maturity had he not discerned in it a vulnerability : something he could defend . |
| 19 | But she seemed to have got over her momentary embarrassment , so he smiled at her as warmly as he could , and she went away to eat her solitary lunch in the small bed-sitting-room alongside the nursery , which was the only part of the Unit that was n't monitored with cameras and tape recorders . |
| 20 | Other Coalition Liberals were disliked as warmly as Lloyd George , more for their present policies than for their past . |
| 21 | She had spoken more warmly to him tonight than she had ever done when she was unmarried and free to speak as warmly as she liked . |
| 22 | At lunchtime , when he read the note , he would always thank her as warmly as he could , but her mistake of taste was plainly defined in his face . |
| 23 | Jean Jelbart stood smiling just behind him , her golden-brown hair freshly curled and set for Christmas , and Belinda greeted her warmly as well . |
| 24 | ‘ I hope we get a replacement , ’ Müller said heartlessly as they settled down to work . |
| 25 | The temptation must be resisted as firmly and valiantly as I have resisted the other , more obvious , more sensual lures and snares . |
| 26 | In Uruguay a junta that fought subversion almost as brutally as Argentina 's collapsed under its own disagreements in 1984 . |
| 27 | He must make the switch from half-baked seducer to ruthless interrogator as brutally as possible . |
| 28 | And after the revolution the two strata coalesced to form a ruling class which repressed and exploited workers and peasants as brutally as did the capitalists of the West . |
| 29 | Sean watched admiringly as Paddy went to the side to read the Gospel from the Mass Missal , making the sign of the cross on the book , his forehead , lips and heart , saying , ‘ Gloria tibi , Domine . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ You certainly have mastered your anatomy , ’ she told him admiringly as he slid his hands across the small of her back to find that ecstatic erogenous zone that never failed to set her on fire . |