Example sentences of "from [pers pn] as though [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the crowd of pedestrians I glimpsed a creature , whether boy or girl , and suddenly had the breath taken from me as though I had been punched , hard . |
| 2 | Uttering that final rough accusation , he released her , thrusting her from him as though she were unclean . |
| 3 | He watched her hurry away from him as though she was terrified he was going to say more , and then the sounds of his orchestra tuning up took him through into the pit . |
| 4 | His entire past was cut away from him as though he , and the world he had known , had never even existed . |
| 5 | He pushed the papers from him as though he knew already he had done with them . |
| 6 | Instantly , she thrust it from her as though it were the plague . |