Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [conj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One grey-haired captain , a rough old chap , sat and sat not saying a word , mute as a mackerel , then suddenly got up in the middle of the room ad , you know , said aloud as if speaking to himself , ‘ If there 's no God then what sort of a Captain am I after that ? ’ , ad seized his cap and threw up his arms and went out . |
| 2 | And when it was over and their tears had dried , they lay like spoons , curved together as if made for each other , and slept . |
| 3 | At that moment , emerging from the saloon below as if propelled from a circus cannon , there appeared a distinctly grotesque figure . |
| 4 | Finally , the points on his leggings had been tied up wrongly as if done by someone else in a hurry . ’ |
| 5 | The figure might wait till a drone swooped nearby and fire up at it — just as if shooting at Lexandro . |
| 6 | The cutting , too , has meaning : fast , significant , hinting , pausing for an instant on an idea then darting away as if to shrink from a risky suggestion . |
| 7 | Then in a flash it dashes away as if fleeing in panic . |
| 8 | The US Fish and Wildlife Service had been expected to reach a decision soon on whether to call for a ban or not . |
| 9 | A decision will be taken shortly on whether to invest in a more advanced E-mail package and , if so , which one . |
| 10 | The group sat quite still as if bound by some secret . |
| 11 | It was when the pale flood of light returned that Stephen saw the man — He was quite a long way off , not far in from the road , and he was standing quite still as if waiting for someone or watching . |
| 12 | standing stiffly as if boxed by shadow : |
| 13 | Both the pulsar and its companion have masses close to and move in tight orbits which would almost fit inside the Sun ( is one solar mass ) . |
| 14 | As his hand closed on the rubber border , the man appeared to steady , staring fixedly as if fascinated by the spectacle . |
| 15 | His/her foul body shone phosphorescently as if lit from within ; as if his/her flesh acted as a window to a lascivious light from elsewhere . |
| 16 | Hope shook his head and sat down carefully as if to concentrate on his tea leaves . |
| 17 | She dropped her robe on to the stool near by and stepped into the water , sinking slowly down into the warmth . |
| 18 | These flickered and danced wildly as if blown upon by unseen lips . |
| 19 | A restricted style of language is used in dictionary definitions with a number of phrases being extremely common ( e.g. of or pertaining to , also called , compare ) . |
| 20 | She had n't moved from the cockpit sole , but crouched there looking aft as if mesmerised by the towering storm front . |
| 21 | McKillop seemed to be thinking hard as if struggling with some mathematical conundrum . |
| 22 | I mean , I expect she knew how you felt about the only things worth having being the things you 'd worked hard for and earned for yourself , so you would n't want her to leave you the house ] But she did n't want you to think she 'd forgotten you , or that she was just being spiteful , or something … ’ |
| 23 | He stared down at her for a few seconds , almost as if searching for some clue hidden in her expression . |
| 24 | ‘ But I suppose , ’ Robbie went on , almost as if bent on self-disillusionment , ‘ you must be in a hurry too , to get back to Petula . ’ |
| 25 | ’ The king waved the mameluke to a small stool next to Queen Claude who continued to sit there as if carved from stone . |
| 26 | Hocazade soon gave up the kadilik in order to devote himself more fully to but remained as muderris in Iznik until the death of Mehmed II ( 886/1481 ) . |
| 27 | Two thoroughbred stallions panted heavily as if driven at some pace . |
| 28 | As he spoke , the alarmed young woman — only quite attractive , Hope assessed , a little too thin in the face for his taste — glanced behind and then beyond and back again as if expecting to be set on by bandits . |
| 29 | Look straight ahead as if gazing at a place on a wall . |
| 30 | It may , according to circumstances and the personalities involved , be best to fix a regular mutually agreeable day for visiting , so that it is something to be looked forward to and prepared for . |