Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] as [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | She patted his hand and smiled , then pursed her lips together as if they must be forced not to speak another word . |
| 2 | A London chronicler , writing of events in early 1461 , talks of the northerners almost as if they were foreign enemies : ‘ it was Reported that the Quene w ’ the Northern men wold come downe to the Citie and Robbe and dispoile the Citie , and distroy it vtterly , and all the Sowth Cuntre' ( 22 , p.172 ) . |
| 3 | The most direct link between the Fabians and Spencer is Beatrice Webb , who was brought up under his tutelage , absorbed his scientific method of viewing ‘ all social institutions exactly as if they were plants or animals — things that could be observed , classified and explained ’ , but who eventually shook herself ‘ completely free from laisser-faire bias ’ . |
| 4 | They had to pull their weight , but they brought up one or two who had lost their parents just as if they were their own children . |
| 5 | The living animal has by this process been transformed into something approximating a circuit board in a computer , and the researchers can go about exploring its properties rather as if they were electrical engineers , presented with a novel piece of equipment and trying to understand from scratch how its circuits function . |
| 6 | In his wake were two older men in crumpled uniforms , unshaven clumsy fellows , carrying their rifles gingerly as if they feared they might go off unexpectedly . |
| 7 | After the cool period , treat the bulbs exactly as if they were growing in compost . |
| 8 | This is very similar to the corresponding category for speech , and the verbalized thoughts are often put in quotation marks just as if they were speech . |