Example sentences of "[adv] that [pers pn] [verb] as [conj] " in BNC.

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1 The ballerina here is cleverly perched on a matchbox so that she looks as if she is standing up , but you might find it easier to omit her feet and just stand her flat on the cake board .
2 He is ‘ a large , hard-breathing , middle-aged slow man , with a mouth like a fish , dull staring eyes , and sandy hair standing upright on his head , so that he looked as if he had just been all but choked , and had that moment come to ’ .
3 And there 's the desperate search to find any boyfriend as quickly as possible , so that you look as if you 're all right and not alone . ’
4 The fog continued to enclose them in their own world for the whole of the next day , deadening all sound outside so that it seemed as if everything was hushed and waiting .
5 So that it looked as if it belonged to the house .
6 When she thought about the things he did they became even sharper , so that it felt as if an electric shock was passing right through the centre of her body .
7 Attach the arm inside the sarcophagus so that it looks as if it is coming out of the base , and bend it up slightly so that it looks as if it is pushing up the lid .
8 Attach the arm inside the sarcophagus so that it looks as if it is coming out of the base , and bend it up slightly so that it looks as if it is pushing up the lid .
9 Place the foot at the base of the door , and attach the arm so that it looks as if it is holding the door open slightly .
10 Yet she had timed her appearance so exactly that it seemed as if she had been forewarned of the train 's arrival .
11 It was very quiet in the kitchen except for the clock in the corner that ticked so loudly that it sounded as if it would burst out of its case .
12 When it was midnight they took the body of the Cid , fastened to the saddle as it was , and placed it upon his horse Bavieca , and fastened the saddle well : and the body sate so upright and well that it seemed as if he was alive .
13 Third at the last fence , he passed Royal Mail and with just over a furlong to go was finishing so strongly that it looked as if he must catch Aldaniti .
14 What pleased me very much was that someone said of my first photographs taken abroad that they looked as if they could have been taken anywhere .
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