Example sentences of "[noun] as [subord] [pron] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Must look a bit as if everything 's coming to an end . ’ |
| 2 | He seems most himself when snarling like a caged animal , droning and whining like a buzz saw , hacking at his guitar as if he is chopping wood . |
| 3 | If you do not have the luxury of a dining room used just for dining — and most of us do not , the trick is to make your dining table look as if it is not a dining table most of the time . |
| 4 | He has a sash across his shirt as if he is an ambassador at a diplomatic function . |
| 5 | To speak of religion as if it is a ‘ primordial form ’ or an ‘ entity ’ is to hypostasize it . |
| 6 | Joan 's just rung see they come over for , all of them come over for dinner every Sunday , and er Joan 's er Andrea 's going out with a crowd of them today she 's in with a nice girl a girl er married and the husband , he 's treats Andrea as if it 's a baby sister , so he 's more or less looking after her which is Joan 's very pleased about |
| 7 | Anyway , we 've finished all we can eat of this Cambozola , and the wine bottle is only good for sticking candles in , and we are still sitting on the carpet lit by one small lamp somewhere over in the corner , and she keeps filling in the pauses by staring into my eyes as if she 's checking I do n't wear false eyelashes , and I start to think it 's about time I got up off the floor . |
| 8 | In this calculus one combines functions as if one is dealing with algebraic quantities . |
| 9 | In this case the instructor brings the aircraft to a stall and applies full rudder as if he is going to spin . |
| 10 | The narrative base to this section ( Sukenick 's visit to Israel ) represents a journey to a country of spiritual origins as if he is seeking a lost unity antecedent to the modern state of division . |
| 11 | It goes round corners as if it 's on rails . ’ |
| 12 | A woman does n't fall down steep stairs then lie at the bottom as if she is fast asleep . ’ |
| 13 | We 're not yet a police lab even if you do walk in and out of the place as if it 's your own kitchen . |
| 14 | If the parent bird is aquatic and is making its display on water , it may turn on its side , flap one wing awkwardly in the air and paddle itself in a circle as if it is hopelessly crippled . |
| 15 | It does n't look at this moment as if there is any real increase and any money for the extra students . |
| 16 | If one task uses only one input neuron and the other uses the same neuron as part of a pattern of input , then the system responds to activity in that neuron as if it is a part of the larger pattern . |
| 17 | She talks about her husband as if he 's a superior being — and she imagines George is one , too , which brings out the worst in me . |
| 18 | ‘ Sounds as if she 's doing well , ’ Edward said . |
| 19 | ‘ Sounds as if it 's trying to break into one of the containers . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ It 's got to the point where he looks at you in the morning as if he 's wondering where we are going to send him next . |
| 21 | ENGLISH GIRL ( walking around the island as if she 's lost something important ) : I left my camera in Ecuador . |
| 22 | The person chosen puts his face in the frame as if he is a picture and then he has to try not to laugh as the rest tell their best jokes and make the funniest expressions . |
| 23 | I do n't like dressing up for sex as if it 's a performance . |
| 24 | Treat the pedals as if there 's an egg beneath them , ’ he says . |
| 25 | Decorate the room with stars as if it is night-time , and have the birthday child as Wee Willie Winkie . |
| 26 | There they are , not a stitch on them , they say what they mean , do what they want , eat when they 're hungry , make love as if it 's the most natural thing in the world * , and lie down to die when they reach the end of their lives . |
| 27 | One kind of stick insect arches its abdomen and makes savage swipes through the air as if it is an attacking scorpion . |
| 28 | Although some horses will travel in horse trailers as if it is second nature to them , even without having any previous related experience ; and some horses will stand perfectly and quietly for the farrier when they are being shod for the first time ; many will not ! |
| 29 | Like an unearthly cross between Paul McCartney , Gerry Sadowitz and someone you beat up every day at school , Louis is Kinky Machine 's trump card , illegally bad leather jacket cast aside to reveal bare chest within seconds , silly guitar played above the head on all-too-many occasions , halfway-house haircut shaken at the crowd as if he 's trying to violently throw off a wig . |
| 30 | Let us walk back to the tavern as if there is nothing wrong . ’ |