Example sentences of "[verb] as [conj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes a long time to warm up , a very long time , but then I sleep as though practising for death . |
| 2 | But be quick : pick up your phone or else gird up your loins , grab your staff and hie you like blazes , sprinting as though pursued by the fires of hell , to the Arts Theatre or the Festival box office , whereupon you should pawn your handbag or your jock strap — even your jewels , just as long as you succeed in laying claim to a seat . |
| 3 | Her ankle was unhurt , but there was a thick growth of stinging nettles and within seconds her bare shoulders , arms and chest seemed as though consumed by prickly fire . |
| 4 | A remarkable feature of the mountain is the tremendous gash on its eastern face , looking as though cut by a giant knife . |
| 5 | This led to confusion over concentration with the term minimum inhibitory concentration ( MIC ) being used as and mistaken for dosage rate when it merely related to the bacteriostatic performance against certain bacteria under artificial conditions and at specific concentrations . |
| 6 | The teams are shown as though turning into three-quarter view , the charioteer appearing behind them , and the chariots are not carved at all but finished in paint on the background in bold foreshortening . |
| 7 | With strings and piano , all restraint vanished , and we heard a fantastic balance of wildness , sophistication and seeming improvisation — the last movement 's mad little melodies sounded as though hurled to the sky , to settle softly , for the work 's curiously inconclusive finish . |
| 8 | ‘ Wait , my lovely , ’ he breathed , and took his eyes from her wanting , flushed face , to pull back and stare as though transfixed at the throbbing globes of her breasts . |
| 9 | He himself was beginning to ache as though stretched on the rack , with the worst still to come . |
| 10 | Looking up in surprise , she found he had one eyebrow raised as though waiting for her to make some sarcastic comment , which successfully ensured that she did n't do any such thing . |
| 11 | She started as though to make for the front door , but Mr Hunter held up a hand to stop her . |
| 12 | So , while that sane part of her made her half turn as though to return to her bedroom , that other part of her , the part that tingled and loved him , caused her then to delay — just for a moment . |
| 13 | As a brief aside , the issue raised here is principally one of perception , or rather one of representation , where certain products are represented as and connected with a material form and others are not . |
| 14 | She felt as though flung from health to illness and back by the day , by the hour . |
| 15 | She felt as though confronted by a child : it 'll be all right , she wanted to say , I 'll see that it 's all right . |
| 16 | Miss Hannah Hauxwell , dressed in men 's trousers and old jacket so torn that it looked as though savaging by wolf packs had once been part of her daily routine , looked at me mildly . |
| 17 | Anthea lay as though dancing on the hot folded sand , the pale , lively hair curved as though blown out on the duck egg blue towel on which her lovely profile rested , the skin darker than the tossed gold , the marvellous bones picked out by clear-cut shadows and glitter of sweat . |
| 18 | He raised his arm to see its motion in the flesh of his thumb , and clamped his other hand around the base of the digit in the hope of stopping its further advance , gasping as though doused with ice-water. the pain was out of all proportion to the mite 's size , but he held both thumb and sobs hard , determined not to lose all dignity in front of his executioners . |
| 19 | Her lower lip twitched as though plucked by an invisible finger . |
| 20 | What happens when you suddenly make as though to move into him ? |
| 21 | Actually , I find snowdrops rather insipid , ’ he admitted as though searching for an excuse for his negative attitude . |
| 22 | It opens up into a fantastic cavern , which glistens and sparkles as though lit by an invisible Light . |
| 23 | Seton stood as though carved in stone . |
| 24 | Isabel stood as though chained to the floor , her heart galloping out of control like a runaway steed as she tried to make sense of the unholy din . |
| 25 | She was astonished and sat as though turned to stone , her fingers thrust through the opening of his unbuttoned trousers . |
| 26 | Half way through Edward gave up , scraped the rest into Tam 's food bowl and put the kettle on for a cup of tea ; behind him , Tam slurped as though rescued from the brink of starvation . |