Example sentences of "as [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look straight ahead as if gazing at a place on a wall . |
| 2 | Then he stiffened as if sandbagged by a sudden recollection , gave a small yelp of terror and dashed into the gloom . |
| 3 | Which is not to say he 's a hippy soul surfer , a revivalist sporting a long Malibu board and casually riding a wave 's length as if strolling in the park . |
| 4 | So it has been held that a provision in a statute that regulations made under the statute will take effect as if enacted in the statute ( that is , they will be unchallengeable as if they were made by Parliament ) does not prevent the courts holding the regulation to be ultra vires . |
| 5 | as if summoned by the music , a pang assaulted her heart . |
| 6 | It floats above us , gleaming in the darkness as if supported on a cloud of talk and booze while the people below swarm and chat and roar Andy on ; the champagne — already dripping down off the edges of the table onto the temporary matting beneath from spillages — is almost overflowing the second-last level of glasses . |
| 7 | He stood with his back to the fire , dominating the room and as if trying at the same time to dominate Sarella 's thoughts . |
| 8 | However the gem is surely the Third Ballade with the opening pages played as if improvised on the spot , the figuration commencing at 3′34″ foaming and cascading with a freedom and liberality unknown to most players . |
| 9 | But as if fixed to a wall there . |
| 10 | ‘ as if contending with the elements were not enough , ’ Matthau recalled , ‘ Barbra kept asking Gene whether he did n't think it would be better if I did this on this line , and that on the other , etc , etc- and I told her to stop directing the fucking picture … |
| 11 | He paused after each question , stared over our heads , then jerked out the next as if reading from a cueboard behind us . |
| 12 | ‘ What are you doing here ? ’ she said as if reading from a Gestapo training manual . |
| 13 | Then said , as if reading from an autocue : |
| 14 | The shuttle stopped , trembling , as if straining at a leash . |
| 15 | In one of a series of flashy special effects that often intrude rather than enhance the action , Streep 's upper and nether regions instantaneously tighten as if bolted into an invisible vice . |
| 16 | As his hand closed on the rubber border , the man appeared to steady , staring fixedly as if fascinated by the spectacle . |
| 17 | So are Barcelona under Johan Cruyff , as if participating in a benign conspiracy : two good results for Real and the Toshack era takes off . |
| 18 | Both sides were scrupulously polite , as if participating in a chess tournament . |
| 19 | Think about Elizabeth I , for instance , flirting with her ministers and conducting affairs of state as if participating in a ritualised love affair . |
| 20 | The fingers were clamped solid as if sewn into the material . |
| 21 | The skylight in the ceiling looked as if covered by a dark purple cloth . |
| 22 | Each phrase followed on from the next as if stored for an age and waiting to be spoken in just this way . |
| 23 | The smallest of the British gulls , it lay dead in the snow , pale grey and white plumage , grey cheek patch , greenish bill , short black legs ; quite frozen and in near-perfect condition — as if stored in an open air deep-freeze . |
| 24 | At that moment , emerging from the saloon below as if propelled from a circus cannon , there appeared a distinctly grotesque figure . |
| 25 | He was black , too , as if coated with a layer of paint . |
| 26 | Corbelled gargoyles bristled , as if spewing into the warp . |
| 27 | According to David Hume , Locke was not alone in thinking that visual perception involves something two-dimensional : ‘ It is commonly allowed by philosophers that all bodies which discover themselves to the eye appear as if painted on a plain surface . ’ |
| 28 | This triggers chemical changes in your body , which reacts as if threatened by a foreign substance . |
| 29 | Googol fiddled ostentatiously with the bandana round his brow as if toying with the idea of removing what masked his third eye , the warp-eye , a hostile glare from which could kill , as was widely known though seldom tested . |
| 30 | The fixed duration , the stereotypy , of the growth phase , makes it possible for particular things to happen at particular times during embryonic development , as if governed by a strictly observed calendar . |