Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] as [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result is a genuine triumph , thanks to a troupe of singers , the same cast as at York , willing to give their best in attitudes ranging from completely recumbent to perilous perching on ladder or chaise-longue ; dragging themselves around on all fours and wrapping themselves in curtains ; and generally behaving as though the entire cast ( not just the noble lovers , as in the script ) is ripe for the psychiatrist 's couch . |
| 2 | ‘ She is surrounded by tubes and just looks as though she is asleep . |
| 3 | He winked at me and then scowled as though he had thought better of it . |
| 4 | He had identified her body and yet behaved as though she had never really existed . |
| 5 | Dorothy looked determined rather than festive ; she would have been in her forties at the time but already stood as though planted , like an elderly woman . |
| 6 | 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 . |