Example sentences of "[vb past] [subord] [conj] [pron] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jinny jerked as though someone had pulled at her . |
| 2 | I did n't mean to rub it in , but again I glanced unthinkingly at my watch and the little man winced as though he had received a blow . |
| 3 | She had nagged me to accept it , but now she behaved as though I had done her a disservice by doing so . |
| 4 | He spoke quietly , yet she trembled as though he 'd struck her . |
| 5 | Jackson Chatterton stirred as though he proposed to clean up the mess himself , but I waved him down and kept my eyes on Rickie . |
| 6 | Already the tanks ahead were in action and it seemed as though they had made contact with , and destroyed the majority of the enemy flank guard . |
| 7 | For a moment it seemed as though it had tapped some hidden reserve of strength and would ease itself up on to the opposite bank , and escape into the forest . |
| 8 | She closed her eyes and kept them closed for quite a while , and when she opened them again it seemed as though she had gathered herself together . |
| 9 | It seemed as though she liked to keep those she loved to herself , as if by sharing , some part of them would be lost to her forever . |
| 10 | She nodded as though she had read my thoughts . |
| 11 | He winked at me and then scowled as though he had thought better of it . |
| 12 | He flinched as though she had struck him , and his face suffused with anger . |
| 13 | She flinched as though he had struck her . |
| 14 | And in the Bible it 's recorded that for example there are some cases where there was a big storm and they lost sight of land and all the sailors er promptly panicked because once they 'd lost sight of land they had n't got a clue where they were . |
| 15 | He talked as though he had learnt Latin constructions before English . |
| 16 | Some lessees we hardly saw except when they arrived to pick up their keys and left to return them . |
| 17 | So coming here it felt as though we 'd uprooted and , they would never get their roots down because they were n't really |
| 18 | She felt as though someone had pushed her off the pleasant , grassy path on which she had been walking , and down a vast , black cliff-face . |
| 19 | He felt as though someone had kicked his leg away from him , and he crashed to the floor . |
| 20 | She felt as though someone had dumped an enormous casket of jewels in her lap , and pleasurable though that was , she knew that in her heart she would much rather have her great-aunt alive , and the casket of treasure at some much later time in her own life . |
| 21 | She felt as though he had flung her into hell . |
| 22 | He knew so little of women that he felt as though he had woken up to find himself halfway across a vast mountain in a blizzard without map or rope or compass . |
| 23 | She almost flinched , but somehow her pride rescued her from that , although she felt as though he 'd stuck a knife in her heart and started to revolve it . |
| 24 | When you touched it with the edge of your hand , your skin felt as though it had become attached so that you were in danger of becoming a part of Mrs Parvis 's table for ever . |
| 25 | I closed my mouth and felt as though I had gargled with barbed wire . |
| 26 | She felt as though she had touched something that was not quite of this world , the highest point of the heavens , the farthest star . |
| 27 | I 'm completely in love with him , she thought , and felt as though she had fallen , finally , at his feet . |
| 28 | When at last they lay quietly , her head resting on Luke 's shoulder , her hand spread against the damp warmth of his skin , Fran felt as though she had come back from some great journey that had shifted her conception and understanding of everything . |
| 29 | She felt as though she had regained consciousness in a hospital bed after some physical calamity , that because of injury and loss she must now map out a new existence for herself . |
| 30 | For a fleeting instant she felt as though she had woken to find herself in the lair of a dangerous wild animal . |