Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [verb] [adv] as [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | [ I was ] so oppressed by a sense of sin that I felt almost as if I should die ! |
| 2 | She could not escape the thought that she felt exactly as if she were a child being taken out for a treat by a kindly uncle . |
| 3 | After the release of the two Frenchmen , Hugo Young had written an article in the Guardian that we seized on as if it were a lifeline . |
| 4 | So many small rivalries existed between different cliques in the camp and so many of them seemed synthetic that it looked sometimes as if antagonism was essential to human beings as a form of self-expression . |
| 5 | There was cramp in my neck and arms and I was so tired that it seemed almost as if a malevolent magnetism was trying to drag me to the ground . |
| 6 | However , Cézanne very often goes further and tilts up the top of an object even more towards the picture plane , so that it appears sometimes as if seen almost from directly above , while continuing to show the rest of the object from a more normal , slightly lower point of view . |
| 7 | He had been sacked last week , for the fourth time in a year , after a row with an unpleasant restaurant owner who had a fat pink face that looked about to snort , and chaste little feet on raised heels that he walked on as if they were trotters . |