Example sentences of "the [noun sg] as [conj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charsky leaned back against the pillows and raised his eyes to the ceiling as if thanking the Almighty . |
| 2 | The two women remained motionless , gazing up at the ceiling as if to trace the source and direction of the footsteps . |
| 3 | Waters produced a light pointer and began to explain the topography as if conducting a band . |
| 4 | I am , after all , ’ he added , glaring round the room as if expecting a challenge , ‘ the executor of Sir Ralph 's . ’ |
| 5 | Melissa was beginning to wish the conversation had never started ; the last thing she wanted was to become embroiled in a dispute between two women she hardly knew , but Rose was looking her squarely in the eye as if demanding a response to her outburst . |
| 6 | He glanced down at my notes and touched his own chest , first on the left then on the right as if beginning the sign of the cross : ‘ Both . ’ |
| 7 | She seemed to have dropped her voice and moved in closer to the phone as if to avoid the chance of being overheard . |
| 8 | ‘ Oak Lodge , ’ Wynne-Jones breathed , and repeated the name as if savouring the sound of a place he had once known well . |
| 9 | The man leans forward , grasps the paper as if to take a closer look at it , and removes the small white packet of cocaine from behind my thumb . |
| 10 | When Melissa reached home , Iris , in slacks and a baggy sweater , was leaning on her gate studying the sky as if assessing the prospects for tomorrow 's weather . |
| 11 | Morse stood where he was , listening , and staring up at the sky as if viewing the unsuspected behaviour of some distant galaxy . |
| 12 | As he went to the net , he raised one finger in the air as if to acknowledge the banners that proclaimed him No 1 — he might not be but the way he played last night he could be again soon . |
| 13 | The man grimaced , waving his hands in the air as if mimicking the bear . |
| 14 | My partner almost ran across the traverse as if to depart a potential trouble spot before it was aware of his passage . |
| 15 | On one occasion he put his handprints on the painting as if beseeching the canvas to acknowledge the exiled body . |
| 16 | In Vienna 's Ringstrasse , Schorske observes , the new representative buildings did not face one another ; instead each faced the street as if to italicize the circular flow . |
| 17 | ‘ There were the customary acclamations from the populace as I rode in procession to the Guildhall this morning — indeed it seemed to me that my subjects had never before greeted me with such enthusiasm , ’ Edward told her , gazing into the fire as if reliving the morning 's events . |