Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb past] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | To Sam suddenly it seemed as if all the stones were listening and the tall rocks leaning over them . ’ |
| 2 | The intensity of her response to him a minute ago filled her with self-loathing , but she was afraid too , because suddenly it seemed as if hatred was no longer enough to counter the threat he presented , and yet it was the only answer she possessed . |
| 3 | How long it continued as a workhouse I know not , but records were kept up till 1795 . |
| 4 | ‘ Although Steven said he 'd heard arguing , I never had so it came as a complete shock . ’ |
| 5 | So it came as no surprise that the first chants of ‘ Flashman out ’ were heard just two minutes into a contest in which the long ball was essential in atrocious conditions . |
| 6 | so it came as no surprise when Audrey Roberts decided that enough was enough and stormed out , leaving Alf puzzled and in the lurch . |
| 7 | For a month or so it looked as if he had succeeded in defusing the time bomb , but soon Catholic leaders were arguing that nothing was really changing . |
| 8 | As the two sections of the bridge rose majestically into the air somehow it felt as if he had arranged it especially for her . |
| 9 | This application was wrong , but somehow it felt as if it would be a lot more wrong to turn Mandy in . |
| 10 | The site has no obvious Iron-Age antecedents ; more probably it originated as a civilian vicus outside the fort , which aerial photographs show as a multiple-ditched installation enclosing c. 2 ha ( 5 acres ) on a gravel terrace north-west of the later defended nucleus and the Billing Brook . |
| 11 | A week later it seemed as if Evelyn 's plan had had a miraculously swift outcome . |
| 12 | Fear often played tricks with my perception and now it seemed as if I was losing my grip of reality . |
| 13 | Now it seemed as if they were postponed indefinitely . |
| 14 | Now it seemed as if this ‘ law of parallelism ’ could be extended to the whole history of life on earth . |
| 15 | Now it seemed as if his arms tapered all the way down to his fingertips where they lay lightly on the wheel of the Audi . |
| 16 | She had recovered her figure after the birth of both her children very quickly , but now it looked as if she was four months pregnant . |
| 17 | The interior was probably quite well furnished in the ordinary way , but right now it looked as if a tornado had been through it . |
| 18 | Now it looked as if that , too , were coming apart . |
| 19 | It had taken her all this time to put her life back together , and now it looked as if it might be turned completely upside down again , and all because of Julius ! |
| 20 | But now it looked as if her job might have taken a different turn . |
| 21 | Now it looked as if the choice had been taken away from her . |
| 22 | Pulled in by the cops , having to rescue a naked vicar and now it looked as if I was going to have to talk down a paranoid lesbian . |
| 23 | Not so long ago it seemed as if the world was to divide into three main trading blocks : the EC based around the West German economy ; a Northern American block based around the US-Canadian free trade area , and a Pacific unit incorporating the Asian tigers with Japan and the yen at the centre . |
| 24 | At the same time the outside agencies were quite content to ignore comedy , so leaving the comedians to develop their own cinema and not surprisingly it developed as a purer cinema . |
| 25 | Sometimes it felt as if he had less substance than the images in this room . |
| 26 | Kenneth Williams was a marvellous prop for Kenneth Horne and like all good props , sometimes it seemed as if the whole thing would collapse without him . |
| 27 | He was down and sometimes it seemed as if nothing was going to shake him out of it , apart from a laugh at someone else 's expense or a shared moment of despair . |
| 28 | Sometimes it seemed as if Charley did not distinguish between a live body and a dead one . |
| 29 | By then it looked as if the hats were there to stay . |
| 30 | Then there was voices , and then it sounded as if the boot went down and then there was the doors bang again and then it revved off and it was n't long it came back . |