Example sentences of "[adj] as it sounded " in BNC.
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| 1 | Investigations were still proceeding , but unless Dalziel had some private little line well hidden from everyone else , the phrase was as empty as it sounded . |
| 2 | But knocking on the second door she came to was n't as easy as it sounded . |
| 3 | They soon found that running Easy FM was n't as easy as it sounded . |
| 4 | Making coffee , while Fen dealt swiftly and efficiently with the washing up , was not as simple as it sounded . |
| 5 | Phoebe relapsed into little disturbed ‘ ohs ’ rubbing her thin fingers and slithering to the edge of her chair , while Jess wondered what in the name of the Devil a syndicate was , and if a Frolic would be as jolly as it sounded . |
| 6 | She wished she meant it as blithe as it sounded . |
| 7 | But the good-night was not as definite as it sounded and Fritz , cowed though he was , knew it and walked with Erika to her bus-stop and waited with her in the cold until the bus did trundle along , and even then he made an attempt to get on it with her , a ploy which , with a deft use of her elbow , Erika foiled , leaving him standing at the bus-stop ; a lonely rejected youth , bowed as with the sorrows of all the world — and yet irresistibly comic . |
| 8 | Still , it did n't smell as bad as it sounded . |
| 9 | If so was it as bad as it sounded on the radio ? |