Example sentences of "[adv prt] as [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We floated on as if in a timeless limbo . |
| 2 | Many with whom she had shared the screen for a brief while , people whom she had revered , who had even seemed to define life — such as Akhmatova and Pasternak and Vysotsky — had already slipped out of the plot , and the film churned on as if they had never been . |
| 3 | Another of this weekend 's conventional theses , which was anticipated here , was that of Kinnockian hubris — the possibility that voters went off Mr Kinnock for carrying on as if he had already won . |
| 4 | Only Mr Rumback walked on as if nothing had happened . |
| 5 | He 'd carry on as if nothing was the matter , though some days his face was grey with pain . |
| 6 | He explained the Shadow Scheme briefly , and concluded , ‘ Just carry on as if she was n't there . ’ |
| 7 | F has joined the layline too early and as well as getting dirty wind as he approaches the mark , he will have no option but to sail on as if there is a favourable shift . |
| 8 | The villagers often joked that if she met a German tank on the road to Berkeley , she would order it off the road and pass on as if nothing had happened . |
| 9 | It amused her to think she carried on as if he were n't there . |
| 10 | ‘ Grant took it on as if he did it every week and showed a wise old head on young shoulders . |
| 11 | Gnarled old trees were drawn and modelled later on as if they were figures . |
| 12 | They can , of course , declare their independence , refuse , so to speak , to be beset , and carry on as if these ideas were not there . |
| 13 | There was none of the coy evasion of most women in her , he was thinking ; and went on as if she had not spoken . |
| 14 | Do n't go on as if it had happened , ’ he said . |
| 15 | ‘ People are going on as if there is a crisis at Blackburn because we have n't won for seven weeks , but we 've only been beaten twice this season and if that 's a crisis God help us . ’ |
| 16 | Half the time we carry on as if we did n't have a body : and we only think about our bodies if they trouble us — if we 're hungry or in pain . |
| 17 | Their loss was not reported to police or the royal household — and work carried on as if nothing had happened . |
| 18 | You just carry on as if nothing 's happened . |
| 19 | We shall carry on as if it has not happened . |
| 20 | ‘ They go on as if they were never young and did the things we do . ’ |
| 21 | Perhaps it is this bicameral quality in the American mind that lets the citizen read of the all-out official ‘ war on drugs ’ and ‘ war on terrorism ’ on one page , and then turn the page and read of the CIA sharing a bank with Miami cartels and Abu Nidal , and still go on as if he inhabited a ‘ normal world ’ . |
| 22 | Why , when we all know that loneliness is a paralysing form of human misery , do we go on as if we thought that the deepest need of rational individuals was to be independent of one another ? |
| 23 | ‘ When they had that first trouble , Anna finding out about the prince and carrying on as if it were the end of the world , Constanza must have been about five or six ; she does n't even remember ; Mena does , every minute of it . |
| 24 | The angle between the models is in this case preserved , indicating that they have been operated on as if they were a single model rotating about the origin . |
| 25 | For at least another hour he walked on as if to test the conclusion against all the temptations and changes he could uncover . |
| 26 | After the release of the two Frenchmen , Hugo Young had written an article in the Guardian that we seized on as if it were a lifeline . |
| 27 | He had been sacked last week , for the fourth time in a year , after a row with an unpleasant restaurant owner who had a fat pink face that looked about to snort , and chaste little feet on raised heels that he walked on as if they were trotters . |
| 28 | But Tod comes on as if New York were next door , and as if temperate weather meant rat showers and devil winds and the mad strobes of Venusian lightning . |
| 29 | Sandy , leaning with her head on his shoulder , carried on as if nothing was untoward . |
| 30 | But she went on as if he was n't there . |