Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [conj] [adv] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that sense it 's a glorified soap — and I 've heard it dismissed more than once as a yuppie Dallas , though I find it as difficult to understand how anyone could see it that way as those people would find it to understand how I can curl up , laugh and cry with the characters each week and carry their dilemmas around with me in the days in between . |
| 2 | She concentrated on the clouds , which moved quickly and smoothly as a train across the top of the hills . |
| 3 | She was seated in her chair like a cold stone statue , her face turned upward and away as an indication of her contempt . |
| 4 | ‘ I felt again and again as an actor that we simply were not gaining the audience 's confidence . |
| 5 | As a labour film Hamilton thought that it got nowhere and even as a film about a mining community he thought that ‘ everything is too neat and tidy and well-ordered to hint at what actual conditions may be ’ . |