Example sentences of "[vb pp] as [subord] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the three , that showing John Tradescant is the finest , for neither corpse in the other two paintings is shown in shrouds , both women having been painted as if at the moment of death rather than after the laying-out . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He showed me an underwater grotto , a light-shafted nave of pale-blue shadows , where the large wrasse floated as if in a trance . |
| 4 | All was quiet when I awoke and everyone had vanished as if in a dream . |
| 5 | It was nice and cool here in the bowels of the earth and the sounds muffled as if from the bottom of a swimming pool . |
| 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 | Momentarily undecided as to whether to go on looking or to give up the chase there and then , her eyes lingered on the stranger 's face , and for a heart-beat , or less , his features blurred , and in their flux , caught as if by the sun off a wing in the stratosphere , she saw Gentle , his hair swept back from his high forehead , his grey eyes all yearning , his mouth , which she 'd not known she missed till now , ready to break into a smile . |
| 8 | For a second the boat seemed to be frozen as if in a frame of news film . |
| 9 | But the words were not said as if from the mind of a child but from that of an adult who had experienced many things . |
| 10 | Somehow sensing this connection , clerics have been drawn as if by a magnet to the rails . |
| 11 | The Allies seemed to be drawn as if by a magnet to our local villages . |
| 12 | The famous late figurine of a goddess found in a small rural shrine at Gazi wears a diadem embellished with three carefully depicted poppy seed-heads , and they have been cut as if for the extraction of opium . |