Example sentences of "as though it [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feels as though it 's right through . |
| 2 | He expects me to carry on up at the manor as though it 's just another working day. ? |
| 3 | It 's just standing there , and you take one [ garment ] from the pile and stick it on the ironing board and iron it , fold it , and put it down , take the next one — and it 's as though it 's never going to end . |
| 4 | He 's much more in his element in prometheus , which heaves and sighs as though it 's actually giving birth to fire . |
| 5 | Now party influence looks as though it is again on the wane . |
| 6 | The Scottish Fold cat appears as though it is permanently in the act of lowering its ears . |
| 7 | Her voice was very earnest , as though it was desperately important that I understood what she said . |
| 8 | So what with Carole 's soft voice and that we did n't get a lot of and it seemed as though it was well like that , several times I went last year and I really got a bit cheesed off . |
| 9 | The small apartment on Riverside Drive sounded as though it was already full to overflowing . |
| 10 | Beth remembered it all as though it was only yesterday ; it was etched on her mind and in her heart for all time . |
| 11 | People still talk about when they beat the Arsenal as though it was only last season almost do n't they ? |
| 12 | The Egyptian connection undoubtedly occurred , but it looks as though it was quite a late development . |
| 13 | Sounds as though it was very expensive because the clothes you wore must have been |
| 14 | She laughed as though it was all one big joke . |
| 15 | He tapped the desk as though it was all there in a diagram that I should have already looked at . |
| 16 | Yet our art persists in trying to render the world as though it were here , now , available , he wrote . |
| 17 | The number of working-class boys admitted to grammar schools was disproportionately small , and ‘ measured intelligence ’ could not — as had been conveniently assumed — be treated as though it were clearly independent of genetic endowment , or of environment . |
| 18 | In our attempt to understand a group of complex phenomena we pick on some ‘ simple ’ starting-point such as a need , and proceed to treat it as though it were completely transparent . |
| 19 | Whatever you desire , start thinking and acting as though it were already true — in whatever small ways are possible . |
| 20 | The air was heavy with thick , herbal smells , as though it were already late June ; the water-mint and marjoram , not yet flowering , gave off scent from their leaves and here and there an early meadow-sweet stood in bloom . |
| 21 | ‘ I used to go and play basketball at this gymnasium , ’ recalls Randy , as though it were only yesterday , ‘ and from there I 'd go over to this drummer 's house and we 'd jam . ’ |
| 22 | Here the expression may , as so often , be read to blur the fact of a change of substance , to present a difference of kind as though it were only a modest difference of degree . |
| 23 | Mrs Browning handed her Ellen 's missive as though it were hardly fit to handle and she took it with equal reluctance . |
| 24 | For him , the first question is , ‘ By what criteria do we come to locate or mislocate sensations as being in some sense of ‘ in ’ in the right knee or in the pit of the stomach ? ’ , as though it were obviously not simply a matter of having the sensation in a certain place . |
| 25 | Where a country espouses outward-looking policies , it may continue to behave in many important respects as though it were still domestically focused . |
| 26 | Oh , she talks about it so much , just as though it were yesterday . |
| 27 | The blackbirds that saw it quickly treated this bird as though it were potentially dangerous and mobbed it , even when their fellows could not see the owl and so were making no noise . |