Example sentences of "as [subord] [pron] [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | At this discovery he felt as though he was really achieving something . |
| 32 | Eyes of darkest brown , ’ he continued softly , but he did n't sound as though he were amused , or teasing — rather as though he was merely making a statement of fact , which she found slightly disconcerting . |
| 33 | She stared in anger at the old man 's face , at his eyes which goggled anxiously at hers , then roved off when she met his look , his lips which caved in on his gums and mumbled and tightened as though he was always eating . |
| 34 | It looks as though he was deliberately emphasizing the legal basis of his right to order the affairs of Aquitaine . |
| 35 | The memory was staggeringly clear , as though he had just heard those other bells , as though he were just surging forward in his final spurt , kicking for home . |
| 36 | The ascent had now become so steep , it seemed as though he were now swimming up through the darkness , which was thickening and growing viscous . |
| 37 | His shadowed eyes roved around , as though he were personally serenading each woman in the room , and Shelley felt a shiver when his glance rested on her neat fair head and blue eyes . |
| 38 | He recounted all this without any anger or bitterness , but as he got up from his chair to go to the kitchen I had to turn away rather than watch him move around his flat as though he were still hampered by chains . |
| 39 | He had been at sea on the Chilean coast most of his life , running cargoes between the isolated ports of the southern waterways , a marvellous-looking old man , big gnarled hands warped with rheumatism and a long wrinkled face , little lines running out from his eyes , which were slitted as though he were permanently peering out into fog . |
| 40 | My father was still looking at his hands as though he were faintly irritated by them . |