Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] as [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or you could try out the flight simulator techniques at ‘ Star Wars ’ where you feel as if you 're really taking part in a full scale intergalactic battle . |
| 2 | These , not merely the hopelessly wounded , but those whose wounds were just too complicated for the frantic surgeons to waste time probing , or who looked as if they would be little use to the army again , were laid outside in the bitter cold . |
| 3 | In the intense heat of the day most of them fell silent and withdrew into the gum trees , where they disappeared as if by magic among the bright green leaves . |
| 4 | The shelf was full , except for a small gap , where it looked as if a book had been taken out . |
| 5 | Then , just when Rachel was feeling she wanted it to go on forever , this exciting masquerade between the two of them where it seemed as if the rest of the world did n't exist , she found herself beside Danny who began stuttering and waving his arms , obviously trying to tell her something . |
| 6 | Rokeya 's flat was so precisely as Lee remembered it that she felt as if no time had passed between the last time she had been inside it and the present day . |
| 7 | The relief of escaping from his company was so intense that she felt as if she 'd been wired up to an electric charge for the last few hours and someone had finally taken pity on her and turned off the power . |
| 8 | That being so , he was a joy to walk — which made it odd that she felt as if something was missing . |
| 9 | Lady Eden once remarked that she felt as if the Suez Canal was flowing through her drawing room . |
| 10 | The bikini is tiny , three triangles of cotton crochet , and her ribs protrude so much that she looks as if she is made of corrugated paper . |
| 11 | ‘ You remarked that she looks as if she were asleep . |
| 12 | The ballerina here is cleverly perched on a matchbox so that she looks as if she is standing up , but you might find it easier to omit her feet and just stand her flat on the cake board . |
| 13 | And there 's the desperate search to find any boyfriend as quickly as possible , so that you look as if you 're all right and not alone . ’ |
| 14 | Not , ’ Kay added cheerfully , ‘ that you look as if you need it . ’ |
| 15 | Mona and Sheila were so poised on the edge of their own lives that they listened as if hearing about the living stream they were about to enter . |
| 16 | Mona and Shiela were so poised on the edge of their own lives that they listened as if hearing about the living stream they were about to enter . ’ |
| 17 | And there came with him thirty and six Kings , and one Moorish Queen , who was a negress , and she brought with her two hundred horsewomen , all negresses like herself , all having their hair shorn save a tuft on the top , and this was in token that they came as if upon a pilgrimage , and to obtain the remission of their sins ; and they were all armed in coats of mail and with Turkish bows . |
| 18 | I looked more closely at his cheeks , and saw that they looked as if they had been rubbed to get them red . |
| 19 | What pleased me very much was that someone said of my first photographs taken abroad that they looked as if they could have been taken anywhere . |
| 20 | What makes these system knowledge-based is not that it somehow takes knowledge to write them , nor that they behave as if they had knowledge , but rather that their architectures include explicit knowledge bases . |
| 21 | But in saying that I 'll go ahead , I 'll go ahead with what Robert said although it seems as if erm between us we picked up on a lot of things , there was some objections that Martin threw at you that I thought you handled particularly well . |
| 22 | A spokesman for British Gas said : ‘ It appears that gas was involved , although it looks as if it was a deliberate release rather than an accidental one . ’ |
| 23 | In Berkshire the Newbury clothiers were the richest men , although it looks as if the decline of the local broadcloth and kerseys had already begun , leaving a trail of poverty . |
| 24 | Third at the last fence , he passed Royal Mail and with just over a furlong to go was finishing so strongly that it looked as if he must catch Aldaniti . |
| 25 | In a letter to my wife I said that it looked as if my job was to try to give them new faith and hope . |
| 26 | Manager Barry Forshaw said that the ground floor of the shop was ‘ wrecked ’ , but added that it looked as if no structural damage had been done : ‘ it looks worse than it really is ’ . |
| 27 | So that it looked as if it belonged to the house . |
| 28 | She spoke with an accent so soft that it sounded as if an h was attached to each consonant . |
| 29 | It was very quiet in the kitchen except for the clock in the corner that ticked so loudly that it sounded as if it would burst out of its case . |
| 30 | When she thought about the things he did they became even sharper , so that it felt as if an electric shock was passing right through the centre of her body . |