Example sentences of "[adv] as [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both maids came out , and although there were only two of them they seemed to surround and overwhelm her , not threateningly , but eagerly as though she brought gifts . |
| 2 | They believe me , Connelly thought as he tried to suck in breath , tasting the rancid atmosphere as thickly as if it were smoke . |
| 3 | entirely as as you mentioned it 's regarded as earned income . |
| 4 | It was suddenly as though the passion had been drained from her , her juices drying up like a desert stream in summer . |
| 5 | He took no part in the digging but squatted on the edge of the ditch , fidgeting backwards and forwards , sometimes nibbling and then starting up suddenly as though he could hear some sound in the wood . |
| 6 | At the end of August the rains stopped as suddenly as if taps had been turned off September was considered by the English community even under normal conditions to be the most unhealthy month of the year ; while the hot sun resumed its office of drying out the pools of water which had collected on the sodden earth , fever-bearing mists and miasmas hung everywhere . |
| 7 | One in Devon has 70 members and is carried on much as when it was founded in 1799 . |
| 8 | The fact that virtually all of them cross the Roman road , which was created in the first century AD , suggests that at least some of these features were there in the landscape before the road was built ; here , as elsewhere , it looks as if the road was put in arbitrarily across the landscape with little heed to existing features , much as when new roads and motorways are built today . |
| 9 | Blanche nodded thoughtfully as though Parkin had made a profound point rather than a cheap jibe at a cuckolded husband . |
| 10 | She shared her home with Irina and me and watched over us as fiercely as if we were her own children . |
| 11 | He had carried her in his arms as naturally as if he had been doing so for years , and she had felt right there . |
| 12 | When they had reached St Matthew 's church he had followed her inside as naturally as if they had set out together that morning . |
| 13 | She began to moan as he caressed her trembling body , and when he entered her she cried aloud as though in great pain . |
| 14 | To his surprise a smile began to tug at her cheeks and when she finished the second reading she laughed aloud as though in relief . |
| 15 | He whispered the words aloud as though to conjure the hidden meaning from the card . |
| 16 | So long as there is a need for collective decision-making and for policies which give direction to a whole community or society , and so long as or whenever unanimity can not be achieved , it is hard to see what alternative there can be to the minority being compelled to go along with the decision of the majority . |
| 17 | Where the court is satisfied , on the application of the official receiver , that the bankrupt has failed to comply with any of his obligations under the Act , it can order that time shall cease to run for as long as or subject to such conditions as it thinks fit ( s 279(3) ) . |
| 18 | Some of his oldest friends , who for years had been accustomed to seeing him , fat and genial , as the leading light of a pig-sticking expedition , were astonished to hear him now holding forth like a veritable Newton or Faraday and discussing the latest discoveries in medicine as fluently as if they were entries in the Bengal Club Cup or the Planters ' Handicap . |
| 19 | A clamour of conflicting emotions warred within her while her treacherous body arched greedily to every movement he made , answering each speaking gesture as fluently as if used to long practice . |
| 20 | The light shone on to his upturned face and gleamed on the burnished flanks of the mare who blew through her nose impatiently as though to ask what they were waiting for . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | As the traveller in jelly walked in to take his seat , head down as though the floor were a road map , something pink was in evidence under his nose . |
| 23 | Evidently this belonged to the couple , for they settled down as though at home and made no objection when Hazel did the same . |
| 24 | He took her hand between both his own , turning it palm upwards and gazing down as though he were a fortune-teller , searching the damp pinkness of her flesh for answers to all sorts of impossible questions . |
| 25 | He awkwardly unlocked the door and carried her to the sofa , laying her down as though she weighed nothing at all . |
| 26 | It was absolutely pouring down as though someone up top was emptying buckets . |
| 27 | Stair saw his brother and came forward to greet him , Havvie still at his side , his wife picking up and putting things down as though they were contaminated — she had not married Havvie in order to slum it , as she later said . |
| 28 | You will knit the same number of rows in all as when decreasing every alternate row , you just have to be careful to match all sides exactly and end neatly at the top . |
| 29 | It was all as though I had a horrible secret I had to keep . ’ |
| 30 | Beth remembered it all as though it was only yesterday ; it was etched on her mind and in her heart for all time . |