Example sentences of "[adv] as [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Are you sure , ’ said Simon , speaking slowly as if to someone with a poor knowledge of English , ‘ that Gazzer has n't already got the money ? |
| 2 | He rose and then dived within her , starting slowly as if to the beating of a primal drum . |
| 3 | I saw it was Alec , walking slowly as if in a daze , his right hand held up to his nose and mouth , his eyes downcast . |
| 4 | Nor can it be compared with the ballerina 's dance in Rhapsodie where she wafts to and fro as if in a dream before breaking into her solo . |
| 5 | He stiffened suddenly as if in sudden pain , as he recollected the incident . |
| 6 | The day before the Sale Arthur Crawford arrived with his plants for the Sale , suddenly as if by magic , turning a whole section of the pews into a beautiful living garden — perhaps the most appropriate way of all to support this particular cause ? |
| 7 | Unconsciously they had moved together as if for support . |
| 8 | Nell laid her cheek on her hands , held together as if in prayer , forming a pillow . |
| 9 | No one had bothered to wind it for a long time ; the two hands were clasped together as if in prayer , pointing eternally upwards — either to heaven or to twelve o'clock . |
| 10 | So as if by magic . |
| 11 | And then , just as if in answer to her private thought , the pilot went on : ‘ I 'd like to kiss each one of you before I go , but as I ca n't very well do that I 'll give your Brown Owl a big thank-you kiss for you all ! ’ |
| 12 | She could feel the enchantment in the words , the song from thirteen years back doubling with the fierce bewitchment of the moment — her eyes were dulling , the smell of the sea overcoming her , her mind sinking away as if into deep water . |
| 13 | If the current GATT proposals for opening up world trade for agriculture were inaugurated , he said , they would force Third World farmers to industrialise their production or be " washed away as if by a catastrophic flood " . |
| 14 | As priests and choir chant the story of the resurrection one priest is instructed to move away as if from the tomb , and then to turn back when another sings in Latin ‘ Whither goest thou ? ’ |
| 15 | He had , however , and deliberately , put these words away as if in a cupboard . |
| 16 | It was two in the morning and she walked the short distance to her home as if on a cushion of air . |
| 17 | The perspective of the dream must have shifted several times , for I saw her once as if from above , moving through a kind of square , or crossing place , and then again from the fixed point of the dream where I stood watching her , left forefront . |
| 18 | The faces watched him as he walked half the length of the hut , searchlights following him , and Holly went briskly as if by the speed of his step fourteen years might somehow trickle faster through the future 's fingers . |
| 19 | So Patrick was evidently familiarly at home in the scene where he trod reverently as if on holy ground . |
| 20 | They talked about everything but , mouths moving and laughing with no sound : Jay saw them now as if on film , now from inside her thrilling flesh , looking at Lucy , making her laugh , feeling the thick cream linen napkin , the solid edge of the table . |
| 21 | We move along the road fast as if in a dream . |
| 22 | When she had finished and the lute had fallen silent , he looked across at Tsu Ma and saw how the T'ang sat there , his head bowed , his hands clasped together tightly as if in grief . |
| 23 | The crutch of the jumpsuit shot forwards as if under the impetus of some mighty erection . |
| 24 | Almost as if without one or two eccentricities he would feel characterless . |
| 25 | Ace held up the black lace provocatively by its straps , almost as if with humour he could defuse the situation between them . |
| 26 | Satisfied , Barry Silk laid the last item of his equipment lovingly down , almost as if for a kit inspection . |
| 27 | It was almost as if by kissing her he released some of that pent-up fury which lay simmering inside him . |
| 28 | Although Steven Morrissey 's general depression , disgust and horror was certainly fuel for his songwriting ( he wrote constantly , almost as if in anticipation of the forthcoming band ) , he never really thought to question why he wrote . |
| 29 | It is almost as if in Ichthus the word evangelism is synonymous with church planting . |
| 30 | An eminent psychologist has remarked that a man in a mood is almost as if in the grip of a small psychosis , and can find himself helpless in the face of it , unless he has trained himself not to identify with it too strongly . |