Example sentences of "as [conj] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which is not to say he 's a hippy soul surfer , a revivalist sporting a long Malibu board and casually riding a wave 's length as if strolling in the park . |
| 2 | He stood with his back to the fire , dominating the room and as if trying at the same time to dominate Sarella 's thoughts . |
| 3 | ‘ as if contending with the elements were not enough , ’ Matthau recalled , ‘ Barbra kept asking Gene whether he did n't think it would be better if I did this on this line , and that on the other , etc , etc- and I told her to stop directing the fucking picture … |
| 4 | Corbelled gargoyles bristled , as if spewing into the warp . |
| 5 | Googol fiddled ostentatiously with the bandana round his brow as if toying with the idea of removing what masked his third eye , the warp-eye , a hostile glare from which could kill , as was widely known though seldom tested . |
| 6 | Changed , he returned into the lounge to find her standing at the window again , as if watching for the assassin 's return . |
| 7 | He tilts his head and gazes into my face as if searching for the answer . |
| 8 | He paused , as if searching for the right words . |
| 9 | ‘ Guy is not a yuppie , ’ Charles remonstrated , in the voice he reserved for humouring his little sister when she was being most irritating , ‘ He just happens to be a very successful … ’ her brother hesitated a fraction as if searching for the most appropriate description ‘ … entrepreneur . ’ |
| 10 | Mona and Sheila were so poised on the edge of their own lives that they listened as if hearing about the living stream they were about to enter . |
| 11 | Mona and Shiela were so poised on the edge of their own lives that they listened as if hearing about the living stream they were about to enter . ’ |
| 12 | When , in the last play of the Henry VI trilogy , the future Richard III is presenting to the audience his capabilities — as if auditioning for the role of hypocrite — he exults at being able to By grouping all those exempla of deceit Shakespeare makes us unconscious of the initial role-playing of the actor involved , alerting us to the deceptions he is about to foist on others . |
| 13 | She examined her hands , white with chalk , as if looking for the source of some small pain , then gave up on that and began to dust herself down . |
| 14 | Below them were straight roads ridged above the fields , with villages strung along them as if clinging to the security of high ground ; isolated farms with their roofs so low that they looked half submerged in the peat ; an occasional church tower standing majestically apart from its village with the gravestones planted round it like crooked teeth . |
| 15 | The thatched roof of the lodge creaked as if mourning over the dreadful secrets of the priory . |
| 16 | His voice was no more than a faint whisper now but it was as if his words were spraying vitriol on her face , because she tossed her head from side to side as if throwing off the spray . |
| 17 | She took my arm , fingers digging through several layers of clothing , as if reaching for the bone . |
| 18 | Frau Nordern raised her head as if appealing to the Deity presiding over the church . |
| 19 | Mosley , as if capitulating to the iron logic of Fascism , confronted the question of race at a final Albert Hall rally on 28 October 1934 . |
| 20 | She raises her eyes to the wonder of its beauty , sometimes tilting her head as if listening to the music echoing round her . |
| 21 | The information can be given in the form of a poster , letters , tape-recorded message ( as if coming over the radio ) , video-tape ( TV news ) , or on a computer screen . |
| 22 | Philippa sat cross-legged beside the bed , as if meditating on the carpet . |
| 23 | ‘ Stella , ’ he called again , as if asking for the only person he needed . |
| 24 | You do not warm to this lady , who delivers her lines to camera as if waiting for the canned laughter . |
| 25 | The four surviving landscapes Modigliani painted are dry , limpid scenes with an air of desolation ; trees dominate , cypress trees or leafless trees , standing like sentinels in front of the houses and buildings , as if waiting for the people to emerge . |
| 26 | The matrons with their marked brows , hooped earrings and prominent noses had hardly altered , though the scarlet and mulberry cloaks painted in the tombs had vanished from all but the youngest and luckiest women among Davide 's kin , for a single death in the family charred them all , turning young and old into sable-winged crow-women — in churches , at the threshing , at the well , as if flocking in the turned field . |
| 27 | She clapped her hands together , as if dusting off the flour . |
| 28 | I ask them to form a circle , as if standing around the hole , and close their eyes . |
| 29 | Moths fluttered in the light of lamps hanging from the trees as if dancing to the soft , rhythmic jingle of the cicadas . |
| 30 | She flushed and hesitated , as if realizing for the first time where all this was leading . |