Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [subord] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He showed me an underwater grotto , a light-shafted nave of pale-blue shadows , where the large wrasse floated as if in a trance . |
| 2 | He rose as if in a daze , found a space on the floor and sat down . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | All was quiet when I awoke and everyone had vanished as if in a dream . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | For a second the boat seemed to be frozen as if in a frame of news film . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Father of evil , ’ he intoned as if in a travesty of prayer , ‘ and Grandfather too … ’ |
| 9 | He seemed to be moving through mud , his actions hampered as if in a dream . |
| 10 | Grant glanced round to see the clipboards on the wall jingling as if in a breeze . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Awful headaches ; bursting compressing as if in a vice , as if would be crushed ; hammering and throbbing pains ; pains in the morning on waking . |
| 13 | Wynne-Jones stood as if in a daze . |