Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [subord] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One alternative Chinese perspective is shen yuan , in which the viewer is placed as if on a hill , and the horizon line is thus high up , almost a bird 's eye view . |
| 2 | He showed me an underwater grotto , a light-shafted nave of pale-blue shadows , where the large wrasse floated as if in a trance . |
| 3 | He rose as if in a daze , found a space on the floor and sat down . |
| 4 | But in winter , ‘ As the darkness thickened the wind increased , and each blast raked the iron railings before the houses till they hummed as if in a song of derision ’ . |
| 5 | All was quiet when I awoke and everyone had vanished as if in a dream . |
| 6 | They had made the length of Loch Ness in one day , not bad going for an old man on horseback ; ‘ when he rode , ’ says Boswell at the end of the Life , ‘ he had no command or direction of his horse , but was carried as if in a balloon . ’ |
| 7 | For a second the boat seemed to be frozen as if in a frame of news film . |
| 8 | And there were dark rings under his eyes , which burned as if with a fever . |
| 9 | I speak as if to a child , and add , ‘ On Friday . ’ |
| 10 | The small device which enables Canned Draught Guinness to pour as if from a pub fount looks simple , but well over 100 techniques were designed and tested before the final development of the patented in-can system . |
| 11 | And there came with him thirty and six Kings , and one Moorish Queen , who was a negress , and she brought with her two hundred horsewomen , all negresses like herself , all having their hair shorn save a tuft on the top , and this was in token that they came as if upon a pilgrimage , and to obtain the remission of their sins ; and they were all armed in coats of mail and with Turkish bows . |
| 12 | ‘ It must be really hard for somebody to listen to because in a way it 's untogether , but I like chaos , it has its place . |
| 13 | Much as I hope this will never occur , all that would happen is that the patient would either open his eyes and come completely out of the hypnotic state , or that he might doze for some ten or fifteen minutes before waking as if from a nap in an armchair . |
| 14 | Somehow sensing this connection , clerics have been drawn as if by a magnet to the rails . |
| 15 | The Allies seemed to be drawn as if by a magnet to our local villages . |
| 16 | ‘ Father of evil , ’ he intoned as if in a travesty of prayer , ‘ and Grandfather too … ’ |
| 17 | He seemed to be moving through mud , his actions hampered as if in a dream . |
| 18 | She saw them then , with shattering clarity ; they crowded the dunes in a cold eddying radiance , each spear-point a spark of light , grimly staring as if from a trance . |
| 19 | Grant glanced round to see the clipboards on the wall jingling as if in a breeze . |
| 20 | She heard her name again , and again she emerged as if from a dream and found that time had passed . |
| 21 | He had made no attempt to pursue the fleeing secretary and was sitting as if in a trance staring somewhere between the chairs occupied by the new Lord Woodleigh and Jilly Jonathan . |
| 22 | Awful headaches ; bursting compressing as if in a vice , as if would be crushed ; hammering and throbbing pains ; pains in the morning on waking . |
| 23 | Wynne-Jones stood as if in a daze . |
| 24 | She sat as if on a throne : her dark eyes glowed . |