Example sentences of "[Wh adv] it [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You heard me say how it felt as though I were in a bad dream , unable to wake . |
| 2 | Which horse was it you backed let's see how it faired as we cross to Stanton for the big race |
| 3 | No they had n't a no they they started alright on that picket but as time rolled on and they was getting erm fed up with it , you know they that 's how it went as they were getting , oh I we wo n't go up there today , bugger it . |
| 4 | By moving the feet around the board try and get your wake to be as quiet as possible and watch how it differs as you move your weight around . |
| 5 | Clinical research showed how far the human circulation behaved like that of other animals , and how it changed as diseases advanced . |
| 6 | Their struggles on the streets of Britain during the riots of 1981 restored the public peace at a time when it looked as though the ‘ thin blue line ’ was all that stood between turmoil and a still nascent Thatcherite revolution . |
| 7 | There was a period , mind , during March last year , when it looked as though there just might be . |
| 8 | When it reached the stage in the title year when it looked as though the scum might beat us to it , if they had have done , it would have been largely due to the difference between Whyte/Fairclough and Pallister/Bruce . |
| 9 | Much activity took place in 1947 when it appeared as though sudden progress might be made . |
| 10 | Took a walk in the fields saw an old wood stile taken away from a favourite spot which it had occupied all my life the posts were overgrown with Ivy & it seemed so akin to nature & the spot where it stood as tho it had taken it on lease for an undisturbed existance it hurt me to see it was gone for my affections claims a friendship with such things but nothing is lasting in this world last year Langley Bush was destroyd an old white thorn that had stood for more than a century full of fame the gipsies shepherds & herdmen all had their tales of its history & it will be long ere its memory is forgotten . |
| 11 | That one , that 's the big toe , is where the foot actually is twisted outwards this one is where the foot is curved under , and that I 've put in red because it 's the most common sort , very common , that is where the foot is forced up and that one is where it looks as though it 's standing on its toes . |
| 12 | The mystery of the Indus Valley Civilization is not so much why it disappeared as to how it began . ’ |
| 13 | And the reason why it fails as education is that there is no connecting story line — not even a glimmer of an informing theory that might help to relate one snippet of information to another . |
| 14 | This picture broke with the past by dispensing with the idea that everything in nature has a purpose or proper function , which explains why it behaves as it does . |