Example sentences of "as though [pron] be [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're behaving as though we 're already beaten . |
| 2 | It seemed like fate at the time — as though I were specially meant to meet him . |
| 3 | They wept on their last day of work : ‘ I felt terrible ’ ; ‘ it seemed as though you were suddenly cut off from life . ’ |
| 4 | It is as though she was deliberately coaxed into that warm and shabby coffee bar by whatever saving force or spirit I can feel ever more strongly in this no longer quite so bleak habitation of mine . |
| 5 | " Thanks , " he said , drily , " oh , thanks ! " and began stripping off his jersey , as though she were already gone . |
| 6 | He recounted all this without any anger or bitterness , but as he got up from his chair to go to the kitchen I had to turn away rather than watch him move around his flat as though he were still hampered by chains . |
| 7 | My father was still looking at his hands as though he were faintly irritated by them . |