Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] as though " in BNC.

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1 It just sounded as though you had .
2 No it it just feels as though You know I ca n't er ca n't shift it .
3 No it just feels as though like You know how you get summat stuck in your throat ?
4 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 .
5 It just seems as though it flashes in my mind , I do n't know it I think I 've always had a had a overactive mind , actually , you know I 've always worked
6 Occasionally , it just looks as though someone 's not going to turn up because for one reason or another they 've been held up .
7 And i I you know , it it just looks as though erm they 're trying to force more and more onto the voluntary erm centres and the voluntary organizations , to provide resources and to provide help .
8 all the way round here , it just looks as though the on top of the bath robe cot into the oh into the look along there
9 It finally looked as though Adobe had won the day and that there would now be a single stable standard .
10 It also looks as though Kinnock is close to announcing his personal support for changing the electoral system .
11 The two men had gone out at dawn each morning , and for five consecutive days their huers had run up and down the cliff paths , whistling and signalling with flags and gorse bushes to guide the two fleets to the shoals ; and while everyone in Polruan had confidently expected Sam Gristy to win hands down , it now looked as though Harry had the edge .
12 The deadline on the payment , which is the final tranche of a total Bond investment of more than £154m , is early November , but it now looks as though the money could be paid over as early as next week .
13 Mr Ivan Norman , 30 , Business Operations Director for Nevada Bob 's , said : ‘ The Easter weekend , April and May periods , are the busiest of the year for us It now looks as though we will spend them temporarily out of business . ’
14 As shown with Elizabeth and Harry , the man feels very much threatened , as he 's lost his job , by retiring , and it now looks as though he is losing his wife as well .
15 However , the spokesman said : ‘ It now looks as though they had been fighting each other and nobody else was involved . ’
16 But it now looks as though something similar can happen in a failing computer .
17 Polytechnics are also expanding rapidly — more rapidly at present than the universities — and it now looks as though government targets will be met .
18 It now looks as though it will do the same for them in plastic sea kayak design .
19 But it now looks as though pressure for earlier action may surface at the United Nations in the autumn , led by Canada and Malta .
20 It now looks as though they will .
21 Thirdly , something James could not know when the season began , 1976 was going to be one of the most contentious seasons , politically and administratively , that I have ever known in the sport , and there were several times in the year when it really looked as though the fates were conspiring to make it impossible for Hunt to win .
22 It really seems as though the methods of Toyo Shinkin , IBJ and Ms Onoue herself did not amount to best practice .
23 It then looks as though the argument runs :
24 He had been thinking , as he frequently did , of pain , and of how it almost seemed as though Rogal Dorn had singled him out for special benediction even before the Primarch 's germ-plasm had been introduced into his body …
25 Yet in the early months of 1543 , it almost looked as though the complexities might be avoided by a pre-emptive strike by the English which would immediately and radically resolve Scotland 's position .
26 Instead , it almost looked as though the English would succeed .
27 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 .
28 It almost seems as though they shot people for the hell of it . ’
29 " It almost looks as though they were just going through the cupboards , examining the stuff , as it were , the plainclothes man said .
30 In Kenya , it sometimes seems as though the main issues regarding ownership have not really been foreign vs .
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