Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [subord] [v-ing] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Case of the Negro Sommersett seventeen seventy-two , ’ Miss Phoebe murmured as if repeating a lesson . |
| 2 | Dealing with wireless every day , Joe rarely listened when off duty to accounts of small successes put over in the announcer 's authoritative tone and the defeats intoned as if reporting a death : which it was , though not a single death , such as when Tobruk had fallen in June and Mussolini went into Libya . |
| 3 | Wilcox grunted as if acknowledging a debating point , from which she deduced that he was a bully and needed to be stood up to . |
| 4 | ‘ Hey , Gringo , I can see you , ’ Miguelito sang as if teasing a child in a game of hide and seek . |
| 5 | He spoke as if playing a board-game . |