Example sentences of "[noun] as if [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doing their best for the glory of Canada , the whole field of eleven swept round the bend and went down the far side as if welded together , and it still seemed when they turned for home that that was how they might finish , in a knot . |
| 2 | As the hand was finally pulled away , flesh stuck to the ring as if welded there by the heat . |
| 3 | The smell of damp and rot seemed to waft from the doorway as if expelled from putrid lungs . |
| 4 | He was in black — a thick high-necked sweater and , she noticed when he got up and came round the side of the desk , a pair of black corduroys that moulded his thighs as if tailored specially for him , as indeed they probably had been . |
| 5 | ( 2 ) Anything done … or having effect as done , under a provision reproduced in the consolidating Acts has effect as if done under the corresponding provision of the consolidating Acts . |
| 6 | So it has been held that a provision in a statute that regulations made under the statute will take effect as if enacted in the statute ( that is , they will be unchallengeable as if they were made by Parliament ) does not prevent the courts holding the regulation to be ultra vires . |
| 7 | Picking Benny up gently he cradled his head in his lap , conscious of his-mother standing in the garden , her hand over her mouth as if terrified of what she might find . |
| 8 | Paralytic rigidness as if broken . |
| 9 | They remained in a huddle on the pavement , staring at the dazzling array of kitchen equipment as if hypnotised . |
| 10 | There are one or two passably funny lines which fail to make up a coherent , witty whole but are suddenly shot out from an invisible pea-shooter as if whipped from Ms Rudner 's stand-up routine . |
| 11 | Even now I 'm struggling to stop myself going for a jaunt around the room though I know this will inevitably lead to me lying on my bed or sitting on the floor in a mesmerised , trancelike way and staring into nothingness as if stoned . |
| 12 | Great bodily soreness as if bruised |
| 13 | Soft lights glowed on the mountains as if reflected from stained glass . |
| 14 | ‘ No , ’ Lucy said , and Josie reacted to the sound as if caught by the tip of a lash . |
| 15 | The skin of his face hung on its framework like the hides of the penthouse , and weariness and anger and pain scored his brow as if done by a hatchet . |
| 16 | There are illusory curtains , from ceiling to floor , which gently billow into the room as if blown by a warm , gentle breeze . |
| 17 | Always I had found magic in small islands , and here was one with a full-rigged galleon of a cathedral as if moored alongside . |
| 18 | Then , with a vague nod of his head as if satisfied with what he had seen , he leaned towards Tolonen . |
| 19 | An order made by a court in any part of the United Kingdom in bankruptcy proceedings can be enforced in any other part of the United Kingdom as if made by the corresponding court in that other part except in so far as the order relates to property situated there ( unless the Secretary of State and the Lord Chancellor make provision for this ) ( s 426(1)-(3) ) . |
| 20 | When the corpse floated past , it was as unremarkable as a branch drifting in the water , and once we had passed it , it stayed bobbing in the water as if tied to our stern . |
| 21 | He does this by moving away from the shoal of fry and then thrashing about in the water as if injured . |
| 22 | With a slight nod , Dora directed her glance towards the opposite side of the pool , where Dieter Erdle stood staring down at the water as if engrossed in his own reflection . |
| 23 | They walked to the lake where there were two pairs of ducks , mallards with feathers as if painted in iridescent green , and from which a heron rose on gaunt wings , its legs dangling . |
| 24 | It has been noted that on occasions the cremated bones are found in the urns in a small cluster as if placed there in a small bag . |
| 25 | The child , possessed by wonder and nameless hauntings , tried to join together the heavings and creakings and groans and gasps and little cries he had heard as he lay on the floor , his mother 's disturbed concentration now , his father 's stillness as if felled , and the sticky warmth in which he lay between them , something more than the sweat that was there before , a substance he divined as elemental , mysterious , newly decanted , that touched his flesh and his senses with profound , unattainable meaning . |
| 26 | Arsenal started the 1932–3 season as if determined to erase the unhappy memories of the previous spring . |
| 27 | At five to seven she decided that her long gold hair needed another combing — and jumped up from the dressing-table as if shot when a minute later the phone in her room rang and the receptionist told her that a car had come for her . |
| 28 | It was eerie listening to this voice , one moment high and hysterical , sibilant as a snake 's the next , issuing from the shadows as if directed down that merciless beam of light . |
| 29 | Whole families sat on bundles and sacks as if camped out or ready for evacuation . |
| 30 | Once I had seen a rabbit snare fixed between the palings of a fence , and now my mind 's eye saw a rabbit hopping slowly towards this remembered snare as if hypnotized , and the rabbit was me . |