Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [subord] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You just looked as though you might . |
| 2 | People could n't see the danger we were in — in fact Lee could n't see it either — because it just looked as though his ball was in a sand hole . |
| 3 | It just sounded as though you had . |
| 4 | you once asked as though I 'd just begun |
| 5 | And in the Bible it 's recorded that for example there are some cases where there was a big storm and they lost sight of land and all the sailors er promptly panicked because once they 'd lost sight of land they had n't got a clue where they were . |
| 6 | Though the streets of this city were solid , their buildings numbered and named ; though the avenues were bright enough , even at night , to banish ambiguity , he still felt as though he was on the margins of some unknown land , and in danger of crossing into it without realizing he was even doing so . |
| 7 | Even when the happy couple had left for their honeymoon , and the floor of the marquee had been cleared for the dance due to follow the reception , she still felt as though she was wound up as tightly as a spring . |
| 8 | But I still felt as though I 'd have a nervous breakdown if I had to cope for much longer … . |
| 9 | Some lessees we hardly saw except when they arrived to pick up their keys and left to return them . |
| 10 | He was not clever or epigrammatic in the Union manner and only occasionally witty , but always spoke as though he had something to contribute to the debate . |
| 11 | Doreen was a girl who always sounded as though her nasal passages were obstructed or her throat sore . |
| 12 | It probably evolved because if you do computer simulations erm you find out that one of the stable equilibria to which er differing or same size sex cells leads is one with a very large cell and one with a very small cell . |
| 13 | From his slight paunch he also looked as though he enjoyed his own cuisine . |
| 14 | ‘ As the midwife came into the room , I had a strong contraction which really felt as though I was in labour . |
| 15 | He now sounded as though he were beginning a lecture and I thought he must have learned that intonation from his tutors . |
| 16 | He winked at me and then scowled as though he had thought better of it . |
| 17 | But as I say the last bit where you sa dur during the course of the , of this conversation it almost sounded as though you were gon na , you 're doing it parrot , parrot fashion whereas the rest of it was , was superb , there was no , no problems in that . |
| 18 | He had identified her body and yet behaved as though she had never really existed . |
| 19 | Piers asked Alyssia pleasantly , and she again felt as though they were both making an enormous effort to include her in what they would have preferred to be an intimate tête-à-tête . |
| 20 | It certainly seemed as though he was tying up all the loose ends of his life . |
| 21 | He actually looked as though he did . |
| 22 | He certainly sounded as though he could n't stand much more . ’ |