Example sentences of "[was/were] as [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet after the robbery it was as if everything was in a highlight : the hawkers , the ‘ comprame , señor ’ women , the children 's shouts of ‘ cigarros , amigo , ’ as they trotted beside me , the constant offer of ‘ dolares , dolares . ’ |
| 2 | He felt the warmth of it flowing up his arm like an injection ; it was as if everything in her was being transmitted through their palms . |
| 3 | It was as if everything had suddenly come clear . |
| 4 | It was as if everything that had happened to her that day had some how taken place in another time dimension . |
| 5 | It was as if its backbone had been removed . |
| 6 | It was as if they were volunteering two minutes , silence . |
| 7 | With the rain cutting visibiity to less than a hundred feet , it was as if they were trapped inside a glass tumbler the sides of which held at bay the blackness of the storm . |
| 8 | It was as if they had landed on an alien planet , his fear that of awakening the denizens , giant and menacing . |
| 9 | It was as if they were watching . |
| 10 | It was as if they had read F. Scott Fitzgerald and were acting out Crazy Sunday . |
| 11 | It was as if they were indeed from another world : a happy world , a free and easy world . |
| 12 | It was as if they were all specially created to be viewed from there . |
| 13 | It was as if they should simply fade away when they got old like the soldiers they represented on stage . |
| 14 | It was as if they considered themselves above socialising with a mere shop assistant . |
| 15 | It was as if they were in an aircraft flying over a modern city . |
| 16 | It was as if they had forgotten they owned her . |
| 17 | It was as if they were clinging to each other , and they could n't let go . |
| 18 | ‘ It was as if they had all been locked up for three days the way they rushed in , ’ said a security man who saw the 8.30am rush . |
| 19 | She had seen so many of the students set out from her door , awkward and anxious , and after a few weeks it was as if they had been studying there all their lives . |
| 20 | It was as if they had just met . |
| 21 | It was as if they had found it too difficult to bridge the gap between simple experimental systems and the complexity of nature — as if the reductionism of the experimental method lost the holist qualities of the integrated complex whole that these distinguished ecologists saw in natural vegetation . |
| 22 | The rest were a maze of villages with names that sounded like the refrain for a pantomime song , villages whose lives were as far removed from those Manchester lives he had known for so long that it was as if they inhabited another planet . |
| 23 | ‘ It was as if they were trying to give us a clue , deliberately toying with us . ’ |
| 24 | I found nothing ; it was as if they had vanished at the end of the revolution . |
| 25 | It was as if they expected , some time or other , for the Shakoor Rana affair ( Faisalabad , 1987 ) to be deliberately avenged . |
| 26 | It was as if they had left it as late as possible to take maximum advantage of credit . |
| 27 | It was as if they had served to draw some morbid agent from her blood , as if they had been a great black and damson poultice to draw off her petulant humours and leave her as placid as a Madonna . |
| 28 | It was as if they were taking off my clothes , garment by garment , and did not much appreciate what they saw . |
| 29 | But it was as if they had brought the sun with them . |
| 30 | It was as if they 'd been ordered not to be taken alive . ’ |