Example sentences of "as though [pron] be [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sounds to me as though they 're just sell stuff , I I do n't know ! |
| 2 | He smiled infuriatingly at her , lifting a hand to run it over his dark hair , seemingly as relaxed as though they were just sharing a pleasant little chat rather than this frosty interview . |
| 3 | There , they were brilliant and I felt as though they were just starting to work when finished . |
| 4 | " It almost looks as though they were just going through the cupboards , examining the stuff , as it were , the plainclothes man said . |
| 5 | Once they got there , however , they found the police would not allow them onto the tarmac with the welcoming VIPs and it looked at one point as though they were not going to get any pictures . |
| 6 | his feet hurt after a while and his muscles ached , as though they were not dancing but running , pounding through a strange , noisy jostling forest of soft , moving trees in darkness ; just the two of them . |
| 7 | It is as though they were not fighting each other but some phantom German army . |
| 8 | But others looked as though they were desperately trying to find a way out , gazing to the ceiling deep in thought . |
| 9 | In apparent agreement with this idea , some subjects appeared to benefit from continual advances of their sleep/wake rhythm ( as though they were continually flying eastward ) or by being woken temporarily at about four o'clock in the morning to receive a burst of bright light for about an hour . |
| 10 | Clerk of the course Philip Arkwright said : ‘ We are watering as though we are not going to get any rain . |
| 11 | and I do n't know how he , you are , and in the end our cousins you , you know convince me that they 'd take sort of control , you know that , if I was worried as well about or dad getting drunk , one thing or another like , you know , and said look we 're going , it 's not as though we 're not going , we 're going and we 'll have him in with us and I let him go in the end cos I went down in the five weeks |
| 12 | We 're behaving as though we 're already beaten . |
| 13 | No one expected to achieve anything much after lunch , so the mood was languid and light-hearted , as though we were just pretending . |
| 14 | It 's not as though we were n't making money at the time either . |
| 15 | Occasionally , it just looks as though someone 's not going to turn up because for one reason or another they 've been held up . |
| 16 | The night is black and there are no streetlights , and I feel as though I am not driving on a road at all , but forcing my way through clotted bushes . |
| 17 | I must have studied her with attention for I find that I can at this moment , however reluctantly , see her face before me as distinctly as though I was still sitting in that coffee bar with a quarter of an inch of the brown dregs left in my cup . |
| 18 | B : ‘ I feel as though I 'm not doing my duty as a father . |
| 19 | I I feel as though I 'm not doing anything useful . |
| 20 | ‘ There 's no need to look at me as though I 'm about to rape you , ’ he barked impatiently . |
| 21 | It seemed like fate at the time — as though I were specially meant to meet him . |
| 22 | I felt as though I were about to undergo an important test . ’ |
| 23 | In the same way , when a teacher adjusts you into an upright position you will probably feel as though you are about to fall over in a forwards direction . |
| 24 | Practise applying your make-up so that it looks as though you 're not wearing any at all — it 's a real art , but it can be done ! |
| 25 | Even in the office you had to look as though you were n't working . |
| 26 | They wept on their last day of work : ‘ I felt terrible ’ ; ‘ it seemed as though you were suddenly cut off from life . ’ |
| 27 | It 's just standing there , and you take one [ garment ] from the pile and stick it on the ironing board and iron it , fold it , and put it down , take the next one — and it 's as though it 's never going to end . |
| 28 | He 's much more in his element in prometheus , which heaves and sighs as though it 's actually giving birth to fire . |
| 29 | Two years ago Team Lotus looked as though it was about to disappear . |
| 30 | At last the party broke up when Felicity announced that her spine felt as though it were about to collapse and that she must go to bed . |