Example sentences of "as [subord] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if to reassure the Danzigers , on the first day of the election campaign Hitler announced his intention to renegotiate the Anglo-German Air and Naval pacts . |
| 2 | He lit up a cigarette and moved his mouth around as he inhaled as if chewing the flavour of the smoke . |
| 3 | He twitched his shoulders as if shrugging the burden of Georgina on to the new arrival . |
| 4 | Amsterdam rose and put his hand on his aunt 's shoulder as if to soften the blow he was about to deliver . |
| 5 | The coroner sat with lips pursed , staring down at the empty platters and dishes as if wishing the food he had devoured would magically reappear . |
| 6 | On one occasion he put his handprints on the painting as if beseeching the canvas to acknowledge the exiled body . |
| 7 | In the new one , as if to repeat the church 's social teaching against communism that ‘ every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own ’ ( Leo XIII 1903 : 210 ) , Article 43 announced : |
| 8 | Miss Armstrong said the defendants were in some way prodding the woman from behind she swung round as if to hit the children with her bag and they ran off . |
| 9 | as if to highlight the fact that the referee 's performance was as inconsistent as everybody 's else 's , McGinlay was booked seven minutes before the interval for hand ball . |
| 10 | as if embracing the limbo of the stateless person , Joyce called himself Wilhelm Froelich , the surname ‘ Joyful ’ being a pun upon his own . |
| 11 | ‘ Tell me about your acting career , ’ he invited with an abrupt change of topic as if to say the matter of the earrings was forgotten , though she knew it was n't . |
| 12 | However , ‘ I invite nobody into my soul ’ he declares , as if to banish the exhibitionist thought.44 And then if the search for suffering is allowed to eclipse the rest , we are back with Marmeladov squinnying into the bottom of his vodka jug ; whereas Stavrogin saying he wants to forgive himself might be Raskolnikov pondering retrospectively , selfcritically , on his admission of guilt at the police station . |
| 13 | Miss Snoot moves as if to draw the curtains , but her father forbids her with a shake of his head . |
| 14 | And I made as if to open the door . |
| 15 | It 's not as if murdering the Admiral was a sensible course of action . |
| 16 | It was almost as if stroking the kitten was a substitute for touching her hair . |
| 17 | The crowds in turn shouted ‘ no violence ! ’ and put their hands above their heads , as if daring the Volkspolizei , the people 's police , and the plainclothes men , the Stasis , to beat them . |
| 18 | He raised his whisky right in front of the Apache , as if daring the Apache to try the same thing on him . |
| 19 | She looked at Sir John more guardedly , as if realising the coroner was not the fool he liked to appear . |
| 20 | I lowered my head quickly , as if to acknowledge the truth spoken by the old woman Khadija when she heard of my decision to travel to London . |
| 21 | As he went to the net , he raised one finger in the air as if to acknowledge the banners that proclaimed him No 1 — he might not be but the way he played last night he could be again soon . |
| 22 | ‘ He would n't speak to you , Gilbert , ’ continued Rohmer , still staring at the shattered window as if willing the lightning to return . |
| 23 | Harrison drew back his jaw as if riding the blow . |
| 24 | Gaunt raised his hand as if welcoming the plaudits of the crowd . |
| 25 | The man threw his hands this way and that , as if urging the cottages to speak for themselves . |
| 26 | The priest smiled , as if encouraging the women to indulge in this local taste which was still clearly unknown in their distant land . |
| 27 | In Vienna 's Ringstrasse , Schorske observes , the new representative buildings did not face one another ; instead each faced the street as if to italicize the circular flow . |
| 28 | Moreover , unlike most medieval letter writers — and , for that matter , even unlike most of us today when we dash off our epistles without much thought about the time — Petrarch ‘ spells out the dates ( including the hour ) with weight and deliberation , as if to stress the importance of taking one 's bearings in time ’ . |
| 29 | He is also , as if to stress the grace and condescension involved , the God of Jacob : ( Psalm 81:4 ) , in holiness ( Isaiah 1:4 ) and power ( Psalm 132:2 ) . |
| 30 | He saw one man motioning animatedly with his arms , as if to deflect the other boat from its route . |