Example sentences of "though [pron] were [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Gray sounded as though she were trying to be fair . |
| 2 | ‘ But if I tell you , ’ Harriet Shakespeare said , as though she were talking to an idiot , ‘ I 'm putting Liam 's life in worse danger . |
| 3 | It sounded as though she were talking to someone she knew well , or at least had dealt with previously , because she called her interlocutor ‘ Tonio ’ and smiled continuously as though engaged in invisible wooing and sometimes she laughed . |
| 4 | It was smelly inside , made you feel as though you were choking to death and the eye-holes so small you could n't see out properly . |
| 5 | ‘ You look as though you were going to be sick , ’ she said . |
| 6 | It was as though they were saying to me , at last you 're doing something worthwhile and respectable . |
| 7 | In 1982 all these qualities looked as though they were going to be urgently required . |
| 8 | Others will talk about themselves as ‘ he ’ or ‘ she ’ and describe what is taking place as though it were happening to a character in a television play . |
| 9 | For a fraction of a second it looked as though it were going to be just that , he 'd vaulted too hard and he was going to overshoot the small terrace and land on the ugly hard shapes of the garden furniture in the basement courtyard beneath . |
| 10 | So , if I pass my er printed overheads for this one an allowance er , is , and you were talking about it really , you were using this as though it were going to be er , your money that you 'd got to spend for doing each one of those activities or each bit of work within the , the project . |
| 11 | For a moment , when Miles had looked so meltingly at her as those words poured from him , it seemed as though he were speaking to her , and the dark , wet night simply faded away from around her , and she was transported to a warm summer garden on the night of a Royal Ball . |
| 12 | He observed instead , his tone reflective , almost as though he were speaking to himself , ‘ You manage well on your own . |
| 13 | When he spoke again , it was as though he were talking to himself . |
| 14 | The hon. Gentleman is treating me as though he were talking to someone from Louisiana and wanting to finish the sentence before it has been started . |