Example sentences of "[adv] as [conj] [pron] [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kick the front leg vigorously as if you were trying to attract a shark ! |
| 2 | Those who live close enough to walk to work make a point of mentioning it , rather as if they were keeping alive a forgotten folkway . |
| 3 | As a result , the coupe 's front and rear look rather as if they were designed by different committees . |
| 4 | We do not intend to set up an alternative formal system ( uninterpreted in itself ) to act as the interpretation for our syntax , and we shall not just specify patterns of co-occurring word classes on the supposition that causal factors are described by exhibiting the phenomena they govern ( or , worse , that the two are the same ) ; this mistake , which has been widely made , reverses the logical priorities — rather as if one were to answer an enquiry about the underlying geological structure of a region by offering aerial photographs of the terrain . |
| 5 | Fagg emitted an interesting glugging sound , rather as if he were repeating the name of the insulted Vietnamese over and over again . |
| 6 | She spread out the balance sheet of her life rather as if she were playing Patience . |
| 7 | In a title search , for example , a search for an incomplete or garbled title would lead to the choice of a title index display or a search for titles containing the words of the search , and thenceforth behave rather as if it were doing a subject search . |
| 8 | I dropped my right wing suddenly as if I were turning into the cloud and immediately swung over into a steep left hand turn . |
| 9 | Lee was cold suddenly as if she were sitting in a seawind . |
| 10 | They were in a dark corner behind the bandstand in the park and had quickly gone through all the other stages , including the one Sally liked best , kissing and pressing the lower half of their bodies close together as if they were dancing . |
| 11 | Now Kathy seems to me should be checked checking the assessor , just as if it was going over the telephone |
| 12 | So when the carriage is set to slip , with the side lever ( nearest the knitting ) on and you want the carriage to knit , the carriage will instead slip and knit according to the card , just as if you were knitting a slip stitch pattern . |
| 13 | For example , to send data to the communications port ( serial port without the printer filter ) , you can open a file to : COM.0 and PRINT to it just as if you were PRINTing to a file . |
| 14 | Penny was Sixer of the Kelpies , and when her granny had given her a beautiful budgie for a birthday present she decided to name it Kelpie after her Six , especially as the bird had a little silver patch on his throat — just as if he was wearing the Promise Badge , Penny pointed out gleefully . |
| 15 | A gem from Kydonia shows the Master of Animals grasping two lions as they apparently sit upright , just as if he was holding a pair of pups by the scruff of the neck ; the image speaks clearly of the god 's dominion over wild beasts . |
| 16 | The Corporal was still on the wall , all credit to him , legs astride as if he was riding a motorbike . |
| 17 | Yeah you just talk normal , like you would normally as if you was having a cup of tea . |
| 18 | After the cool period , treat the bulbs exactly as if they were growing in compost . |
| 19 | I feel exactly as if I were having a very prolonged dream but every time I come out of it I 'm so tired I fall back into it again . |
| 20 | gesture in front of a group exactly as if you were having an animated conversation with a friend nothing more , nothing less . |
| 21 | He shook his head quickly as if he were warding off a sneeze and concentrated on Jim , whose affable plasticine face now seemed sharper and more ambitious . |
| 22 | He was staring at the floor , keeping very still as if he was trying to be part of the wall . |
| 23 | He tossed it aside as if it were made of straw and she knew she would be lost if he touched her . |
| 24 | So Julie smiled at us , in a half-proud , half-scared sort of way , that made her look more as if she was going to burst into tears , and marched up the street , pigtails bobbing , and over the main road to the bus-stop , and stood there gazing across at us with blank eyes while the traffic trundled backwards and forwards between us . |
| 25 | She welcomed us home as if we were lost children . |
| 26 | anywhere near as if you were prepared , because if you were prepared there are bound to be one or two things that you would want to ask for , own by the standard of interpretation of whatever it is , or a particular word if it 's a language and so on , erm and that is something that er I think people erm come across as |
| 27 | He lifted Patrick 's hands and arms and let them fall , he shook his shoulders and moved his head to and fro , then he began to stroke his face , carefully as if he were moulding it . |
| 28 | In the process my middle was doubled up and it felt roughly as if somebody were squashing it between two metal plates studded with nails . |
| 29 | She listened purely as if she were receiving information intended to entertain , not to disturb , from the radio . |
| 30 | She felt now as if something were slipping away , leaving her mind not quiet and empty , but suddenly filled with the black debris of her own trouble . |