Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] be as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rostov tried to think of something else to say , but suddenly it was as if his brain had dried up . |
| 2 | Suddenly it was as if she 'd been drugged . |
| 3 | And so it was as the " candidate " that he spoke to them , his accent so neutral by now that he could have come from anywhere and everywhere , his green broadcloth jacket still shabby but worn as jauntily as if it had been lined with ermine , his lean , dark face handsome enough to please the women and hard enough to reassure the men . |
| 4 | Nevertheless it was as an outwardly devoted wife that she took charge of Darnley 's transfer from Glasgow to Edinburgh , where she lodged him not in Holyrood , in case he infected the infant prince , but in a house belonging to the Canon of Holyrood . |
| 5 | There was no need for tentative steps of discovery but nevertheless it was as if this were the very first time . |
| 6 | Soon it was as if I had imagined everything . |
| 7 | In that trance-like state we drift apart , still staring , but when I turn aside it 's as if we snapped a silken cord . |
| 8 | And now , now it 's as if there 's a spiral stairway built out of pure bloody fear . |
| 9 | He knew the pattern of the carpet by heart but now it was as if he were looking at it for the first time , taking it all in , the design of orange and black squares . |
| 10 | And now it was as if I were sinking blissfully into a warm bath and lying there perfectly relaxed … |
| 11 | That same night she had gone to Yeoman 's Lane for the last time , accepting without pain that she had thought their love was untouchable , yet now it was as if it had never been . |
| 12 | Now it was as if my eyes had glimpsed the windows of a dimly lit house . |
| 13 | Now it was as if he was teetering on the brink of a lidless coffin . |
| 14 | The atmosphere had closed in : now it was as if a clumsy child had finger-painted amorphous swirls and blobs in dull colours over faceplate . |
| 15 | As a doctor she would be i in the dilemma of of trying to give her daughter something which er is not allowed , and yet as a as a doctor she could prescribe other things for other people and here she is as a mother with her own child in her own house , unable to do anything very much for her . |
| 16 | Well it is as mu it 's it 's worked out a few pounds cheaper . |
| 17 | Rather it is as if , for him , taste represented thought . |
| 18 | and you 're a visitor there which is as it should be . |
| 19 | There we were as representatives of this city , people who are in contact with erm people who have got problems , we were |
| 20 | Sometimes it 's as if he 's constantly rejecting the first idea that comes into his mind , and plays the second instead . |
| 21 | Then it is as if our fragmented lives are integrated , fulfilled and satisfied as they have never been before . |
| 22 | Patrick was just about to ask what she was going to do when he felt something cold touch his scalp — and then it was as if his head had caught fire . |
| 23 | Then it was as if a storm broke . |
| 24 | Then it was as if his eyes were speaking and Jezrael was the one who could n't fit in , a child among adults . |
| 25 | Then it was as if a grey curtain fell in front of the window . |
| 26 | Then it was as if trees started crashing down and roots tearing out of the ground . |
| 27 | Then it was as if he had come to a decision . ’ |
| 28 | Lori seemed to shudder right through to her very bones ; then it was as if she had shaken off a darkness that had possessed her for too long . |
| 29 | He had his own rooms in a separate part of the quinta , where he entertained his friends until late at night ; at meals he sometimes made a show of conversation with her , but otherwise they were as strangers . |
| 30 | And yet it is as if the Gorbachev regime , having half-learnt its lesson in 1986 , has forgotten it again . |