Example sentences of "a [noun] it [verb] as [conj] " in BNC.

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1 For a second it looked as though she would go on with the game , but then she stopped smiling and her eyes slid away from his .
2 Pebbles had to snatch up briefly to avoid scrimmaging in front of her on the tight final bend , and for a second it looked as though she might be shut in .
3 For a fraction of a second it looked as though it were going to be just that , he 'd vaulted too hard and he was going to overshoot the small terrace and land on the ugly hard shapes of the garden furniture in the basement courtyard beneath .
4 For a moment it looked as though the desperate urgency of the international situation might enable peace activists to shift the dead weight of the party system .
5 For a moment it looked as though she was going to break down .
6 For a moment it seemed as though it had tapped some hidden reserve of strength and would ease itself up on to the opposite bank , and escape into the forest .
7 For a moment it seemed as though everyone but d'Arquebus would career back down fifty metres to the base of the tube .
8 For a while it looked as though Germany were going to sidestep all the unpleasant consequences of going to war against its neighbours — the most predictable being the payment of reparations — by avoiding a full surrender .
9 Friendly representations on Dryden 's behalf got the ban lifted ( Cleomenes opened on 16 April ) , but with an ugly gap threatened in the theatrical diary , for a while it looked as though The Fairy Queen would have to be brought forward .
10 For a while it looked as though Caledonian Mining , the Nottinghamshire-based firm which the consortium beat for the pit , would be involved .
11 For a time it seemed as though the white working class had vanished .
12 In February 1973 an eruption suddenly burst out on the tiny island of Heimaey , and for a time it seemed as though the town of Heimaey , Iceland 's biggest fishing port , would be destroyed .
13 I mean they are at the moment and if I have a meeting well after about an hour it seems as though you 've
14 When meditating deeply before such an idol it appears as if the image takes on the aura of a live human-being .
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