Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [subord] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Grant glanced round to see the clipboards on the wall jingling as if in a breeze . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Awful headaches ; bursting compressing as if in a vice , as if would be crushed ; hammering and throbbing pains ; pains in the morning on waking . |