Example sentences of "[prep] [subord] something [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had a tendency , even a compulsion to repeat short phrases which seemed particularly apt : to hammer at them as if something was being shaped on an anvil , or as if each phrase was a key which unlocked whole galleries of memory . |
| 2 | But still the horses would n't budge : they were fixed as if something was holding them to the road . |
| 3 | ‘ as if something was … killing them . |
| 4 | as if something was hanging over them . |
| 5 | They put a red blanket over her in the ambulance and it was soft to her touch but then the pain did come , up in the wall of her back as if something was being pulled away like the backing from sticking plaster . |
| 6 | The rope seemed to tremble , as if something was moving along it . |
| 7 | It hurt him to think of it even now ; he looked at the tall aloof girl , calmly cutting bread and butter , and felt as if something was bleeding inside him . |
| 8 | It looked mishapen in this light , almost as if something was eating away at it . |
| 9 | It was as if something was trying to break into the room . |
| 10 | That being so , he was a joy to walk — which made it odd that she felt as if something was missing . |
| 11 | She felt now as if something were slipping away , leaving her mind not quiet and empty , but suddenly filled with the black debris of her own trouble . |
| 12 | as if something were breathing . |
| 13 | High above Miles 's head , beyond the terminus bubble , the Bridge itself was trembling ; it was becoming more difficult to see , as if something were being called into shape around the central shaft . |
| 14 | She would stand at her window in the summer twilights and feel the tug inside her as if something were straining to get out , urging her on with the kind of excitement she longed for and shrank from all at once . |