Example sentences of "[vb pp] as [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the three , that showing John Tradescant is the finest , for neither corpse in the other two paintings is shown in shrouds , both women having been painted as if at the moment of death rather than after the laying-out . |
| 2 | To the grown man visionary experiences come infrequently , but when they do appear the effect is profound , as in ‘ the Blind Beggar ’ episode ; caught in the maelstrom of London , the poet is admonished as if from another world' ( see page 64 ) . |
| 3 | One alternative Chinese perspective is shen yuan , in which the viewer is placed as if on a hill , and the horizon line is thus high up , almost a bird 's eye view . |
| 4 | The children marched down the stairs , the nun coming behind , and in the hall they met up with the older girls and , now forming two files , they walked , hands joined as if in prayer , slowly along a corridor , and into the chapel . |
| 5 | A child , a small , dark , hooded figure was sweeping across the grass towards him with hands joined as if in prayer . |
| 6 | He showed me an underwater grotto , a light-shafted nave of pale-blue shadows , where the large wrasse floated as if in a trance . |
| 7 | In which case the non-verbal concomitants of the various utterances are improvised as if for the first time , and in the best of all possible productions an unforeseeable Lear , Macbeth or Rosalind emerges in performance , and the speeches come across expressing meanings which would have been hard to foresee from reading the bare text . |
| 8 | Her body was squeezed as if between great trees . |
| 9 | All was quiet when I awoke and everyone had vanished as if in a dream . |
| 10 | The congregation responded as if with one voice — ‘ OK ! ’ |
| 11 | It was nice and cool here in the bowels of the earth and the sounds muffled as if from the bottom of a swimming pool . |
| 12 | They had made the length of Loch Ness in one day , not bad going for an old man on horseback ; ‘ when he rode , ’ says Boswell at the end of the Life , ‘ he had no command or direction of his horse , but was carried as if in a balloon . ’ |
| 13 | Momentarily undecided as to whether to go on looking or to give up the chase there and then , her eyes lingered on the stranger 's face , and for a heart-beat , or less , his features blurred , and in their flux , caught as if by the sun off a wing in the stratosphere , she saw Gentle , his hair swept back from his high forehead , his grey eyes all yearning , his mouth , which she 'd not known she missed till now , ready to break into a smile . |
| 14 | For a second the boat seemed to be frozen as if in a frame of news film . |
| 15 | He walked down the staircase , his shoulders bowed as if by a great weight , and Kate saw him pull himself erect . |
| 16 | Arncliff folk were so poor — the meagre belongings of all twenty-seven totalling no more than £9. 7s. 4d. — that when the subsidy came to be levied , Robert Selson and William Prysche , with 20s. apiece , John Knolles ( 26s. 8d. ) , and Thomas and Leonard Atkynson ( 10s. each ) were selected as if at random and assessed at £2 each ; although the first two also enjoyed tiny incomes from land , it is to be hoped that some at least of their neighbours chipped in to make up the shilling due from each . |
| 17 | His mouth twisted as if in self-mockery . |
| 18 | But the words were not said as if from the mind of a child but from that of an adult who had experienced many things . |
| 19 | He was aware of his father , glancing at the frozen man whose darkly bearded head still hung as if with shame , his body hunched , the cold seeping through the bear and wolf skins . |
| 20 | They had turned as if by common consent to go back into the cottage when the lights of a car , driven fast , came over the southern rise of the road . |
| 21 | Eyes , including Morse 's , now turned as if by some magnetic attraction towards John Ashenden , who sat , his eyes unblinking , in the front row of the seats . |
| 22 | Somehow sensing this connection , clerics have been drawn as if by a magnet to the rails . |
| 23 | The Allies seemed to be drawn as if by a magnet to our local villages . |
| 24 | The offworlder shifted as if in embarrassment . |
| 25 | The Princess of Wales yesterday dramatically announced the curtailing of her official duties , widely interpreted as but with complete withdrawal from public |
| 26 | A couple of low lights were burning in different rooms , lit as if in anticipation of Josie 's return . |
| 27 | The Finzis have marginally the bolder recording , the voices conveying a greater sense of physical presence , experienced as if from , say , the tenth row of pews . |
| 28 | The famous late figurine of a goddess found in a small rural shrine at Gazi wears a diadem embellished with three carefully depicted poppy seed-heads , and they have been cut as if for the extraction of opium . |
| 29 | LEFT The use of aerial photography in understanding cropmarks : at the top , the cropmarks seen from ground level ; in the centre the cropmarks are viewed as if in an oblique aerial photograph , and below , the same cropmarks are seen as if in a vertical aerial photograph . |
| 30 | But 44-year-old Antony Burgmans ( below ) has appeared as if from nowhere to take charge of the group 's star personal products division . |