Example sentences of "as though they [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Users will thus get the same menu commands on 1-2-3/G and Word Perfect PM , so the two products will look as though they are from the same company . |
| 2 | There ai n't so many people about , and them that are look like they 're real busy — you know , just hurrying along as though they 're in a rush to get home . |
| 3 | Fenna might have given her both appetite and menstruation in his parting , but neither of them seemed as though they were worth the effort . |
| 4 | Switched through to the output monitor , the resulting composite picture shows the Dalek city model as the main picture ( Camera A's shot ) with a small , bottom-right inset , replacing the black area , of the Doctor 's group standing as though they were on a cliff ledge . |
| 5 | They snapped apart as though they were on a rubber band . |
| 6 | Then those hands were unzipping and tugging and peeling off clothes as though they were on fire . |
| 7 | It 's as though they were on a family outing ! |
| 8 | In the brief pause before the auctioneer announced the next lot , Emily spotted her father near the back of the gathering , and , heads down as though they were in a cinema , she and Mungo scuttled round and crouched next to him . |
| 9 | The nicest things — well , I just like it when the programmes are mentioned casually , in passing , almost as though they were like one of the elements . |