Example sentences of "and [adv] it [verb] as [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fear often played tricks with my perception and now it seemed as if I was losing my grip of reality . |
| 2 | It had taken her all this time to put her life back together , and now it looked as if it might be turned completely upside down again , and all because of Julius ! |
| 3 | Pulled in by the cops , having to rescue a naked vicar and now it looked as if I was going to have to talk down a paranoid lesbian . |
| 4 | And now it looks as if the worst fears of the Foreign Office have been realised . |
| 5 | Then there was voices , and then it sounded as if the boot went down and then there was the doors bang again and then it revved off and it was n't long it came back . |
| 6 | He was down and sometimes it seemed as if nothing was going to shake him out of it , apart from a laugh at someone else 's expense or a shared moment of despair . |
| 7 | This of course meant that we would not be able to carry out our tasks in and around Arad and indeed it looked as if we may not every get to Bucharest . |
| 8 | I suppose I do n't love you any more here than when we 're walking together in Ladbroke Grove — how romantic that might sound to a foreigner , by the way — and yet it seems as if I do . ’ |
| 9 | The bust of Unamuno is still there , and again it looks as if someone has attempted to defile it , perhaps in some would-be funny student jape . |
| 10 | Right , classes is definitely plural , so it 's definitely got to go after the s , and therefore it sounds as if teachers is going to be plural , does n't it . |