Example sentences of "as though it was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stok tied his tie , using all the muscles of his fingers as though it was made of metal instead of cloth . |
| 2 | Yet the government has long managed to appear as though it was teaching Pythagoras to four-year-olds . |
| 3 | It was remarkable in the circumstances that the First Symphony sounds as though it was written all at once in a burst of sustained inspiration . |
| 4 | If you have sets of cables together , as in the sample of centre front cables and then cross the cables in opposing directions , you will be creating a completely different style of cable which looks as though it was designed as a whole rather than two separate pairs of cables . |
| 5 | And the Concorde looked as though it was meant to fly . |
| 6 | And the market looked as though it was gon na be quite buoyant . |
| 7 | It looked as though it was going to be another fine day . |
| 8 | ‘ Margaret does n't look awful , ’ said Robert , as though it was expected of him . |
| 9 | I did n't actually like Paula very much — she flaunted her wealth as though it was marked with a price tag — but I did n't actively dislike her . |
| 10 | They heard the river before they saw it , if seeing is the word ; and although this was daunting to most , sounding as though it was running high with the rain , the scouts assured that the noise was actually caused by the shallows of the ford area , where the water was more disturbed . |
| 11 | Full DOS sessions are provided — in other words you can run a DOS program as though it was running under MSDOS — as are Windows 3.0 sessions , with the same proviso . |
| 12 | It 's almost as though it was translated from Esperanto by an artificial intelligence program suffering from dyslexia . |
| 13 | longer , as though it was dying of hunger . |
| 14 | Her hair felt as though it was standing on end . |
| 15 | Her own body felt as though it was burning up with fever , and she put out an unsteady hand to touch his face . |
| 16 | ‘ Sabine Jourdain was murdered and it looks as though it was to prevent her from talking . ’ |