Example sentences of "down as though [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the brief pause before the auctioneer announced the next lot , Emily spotted her father near the back of the gathering , and , heads down as though they were in a cinema , she and Mungo scuttled round and crouched next to him . |
| 2 | Stair saw his brother and came forward to greet him , Havvie still at his side , his wife picking up and putting things down as though they were contaminated — she had not married Havvie in order to slum it , as she later said . |
| 3 | He awkwardly unlocked the door and carried her to the sofa , laying her down as though she weighed nothing at all . |
| 4 | He took her hand between both his own , turning it palm upwards and gazing down as though he were a fortune-teller , searching the damp pinkness of her flesh for answers to all sorts of impossible questions . |
| 5 | It was absolutely pouring down as though someone up top was emptying buckets . |