Example sentences of "but it [verb] [verb] as " in BNC.
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1 | But it does look as though the whole business is irretrievably in their hands now — an impression strengthened by the deafening silence in response to the honest and serious disclosures I made . |
2 | But it began to look as though they were destined to attend at least part of the party . |
3 | Your address is best stated as , but it keeps appearing as ( or worse ) . |
4 | The lawyer was hoping to find a will but it begins to look as though Matthew died intestate . ’ |
5 | As in Belcourt I think to myself : I am seeing what he saw , the same light , the sky , but it fails to work as it should ; it changes nothing , neither enhances nor diminishes my experience of the place . |
6 | The best moment on ‘ Strangeways , Here We Come ’ was , strangely , the most obvious statement Morrissey ever made in a lyric , ‘ Paint A Vulgar Picture ’ offered no new insights to the tacky edge of such a subject , but it did sound as though he had finally decided to cast away all the ambiguity of his writing and head , simplistically , for the jugular . |
7 | But it has remained as puzzling to modern historians as it was shocking to contemporaries . |