Example sentences of "as [subord] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once more he raised his arm involuntarily , as if in greeting . ’ |
| 2 | He had made no attempt to pursue the fleeing secretary and was sitting as if in a trance staring somewhere between the chairs occupied by the new Lord Woodleigh and Jilly Jonathan . |
| 3 | Maxine Venables held her hands clasped before her as if in supplication . |
| 4 | One of the most beautiful uses of pas de bourrée courus is when Ashton places his danseuse in her partner 's arms as she floats over the surface of the floor as if in a dream like ecstasy . |
| 5 | Nor can it be compared with the ballerina 's dance in Rhapsodie where she wafts to and fro as if in a dream before breaking into her solo . |
| 6 | This ascetic , strong-willed young man , dominating yet dull-toned in personality to the point of satanic flatness , captured as if in his own despite the imagination of the day . |
| 7 | Still not satisfied with the delicious idea of a soldier taking the doubtful reading matter away in a wheelbarrow , Dostoevsky adds , in Stepan 's reportage , ‘ and covered it with an apron ; oui , c'est cela , an apron ’ — as if in the eyes of Stepan there was something specially affronting or sinister , anyhow notable , about the apron . |
| 8 | as if in reminder , the new All Blacks have arrived this week , and for the North the contrast between 1979 and 1989 could hardly be greater . |
| 9 | as if in a slow motion sequence from a Peckinpah film I see the torpedoes escape from the box , turn head over tail as they rise , reach their zenith , and begin falling again , towards the heads and shoulders of the youths in front . |
| 10 | Sheila and Mona were writing at side tables ; Michael was kneeling at the big armchair , a book between his elbows , as if in prayer , a position he sometimes used for studying . |
| 11 | Whether it was the suggestion or pure tiredness Maggie was yawning as if in her support . |
| 12 | She dropped Wexford 's hand , recoiling as if in taking it she had done something indecent . |
| 13 | as if in a trance , Vincent got in and sat down beside him . |
| 14 | ‘ Our island will be as if in a state of war ’ one senior official was quoted as saying yesterday . |
| 15 | He refers back to the Fish era as if in awe , and introduces the other Marillionauts with grovelling reverence . |
| 16 | as if in response , the Supreme Soviet passed a new emigration law on May 20th . |
| 17 | When I awoke and started getting ready for my classes , which now passed mechanically , as if in a vacuum , the students suspended in time and space , and my own voice seeming to come from somewhere a long , long way away , I would write a poem for you as a kind of incantation to bring you back that day : |
| 18 | as if in answer to the prophecy I had written in Amsterdam in the Hotel Brabant after visiting the exhibition of Picasso 's Guernica , I was now in the very presence of love itself , in the form of the hero imagined there and then . |
| 19 | Five swans , necks outstretched , their great curved wings rising and falling , leisurely , powerful , pulled , as if in slow motion , past his unseeing eyes . |
| 20 | All was quiet when I awoke and everyone had vanished as if in a dream . |
| 21 | Streetsmart Ar-see-nee-yo recoils as if in fear from the guest he embraced only minutes earlier . |
| 22 | A faked picture in the campaign newspaper showed the senator juxtaposed as if in intimate conversation with a former Communist Party leader , Earl Browder . |
| 23 | He saw once more the star-form of closed lips , the penis beneath them hanging its head as if in awe , a godlet among goddesses . |
| 24 | Mellissa never knew what hit her , her circuits melding in the robotic equivalent of a cerebral haemorrhage , the doors to the complex opening as if in welcome . |
| 25 | as if in reply , as a prompt , a tingle ignited in her belly . |
| 26 | as if in a dream , I allowed Mrs Knelle to lead me to the front door . |
| 27 | We floated on as if in a timeless limbo . |
| 28 | Elegant actions that take in the other as if in a warm embrace , polished gestures , considerate words and wit in conversation , the depth of culture and intellect that underlie one 's words and actions — such are the requirements of a true lady . ’ |
| 29 | The actors in the Shrewsbury battle scene , for instance , are huddled in a knot on a raised platform , locked in slow-motion combat as if in some seething tapestry . |
| 30 | For a fraction the ball wavered in flight , Davies running a few paces as if in pursuit to help the ball on its way . |