Example sentences of "as [conj] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could not take the radio , but as before she had acknowledged that . |
| 2 | I do n't see them very often but when we meet it 's as though we 'd seen each other yesterday . |
| 3 | For a moment it seemed as though it had tapped some hidden reserve of strength and would ease itself up on to the opposite bank , and escape into the forest . |
| 4 | It sounded as though she 'd rehearsed that . |
| 5 | It seemed as though she liked to keep those she loved to herself , as if by sharing , some part of them would be lost to her forever . |
| 6 | It was as though he 'd answered that last question . |
| 7 | But I will never forget that time we both watched your father walking back and forth in front of the summerhouse , looking down at the ground as though he hoped to find some precious jewel he had dropped there . ’ |
| 8 | To the right of our view , the lawn sloped up a gentle embankment to where the summerhouse stood , and it was there my father ’ s figure could by seen , pacing slowly with an air of preoccupation — indeed , as Miss Kenton puts it so well , ‘ as though he hoped to find some precious jewel he had dropped there ’ . |
| 9 | In fact , I can describe his manner at that moment no better than the way Miss Kenton puts it in her letter ; it was indeed ‘ as though he hoped to find some precious jewel he had dropped there ’ . |
| 10 | He had stared at the bottle in his hand , walked outside , smashed it against the outhouse wall , watched the liquor run down , dark against the brickwork , and returned to the house , almost reeled past Matey as though he had drunk all of it , and mounted the stairs to her room to remind himself of what he had lost , hurt though it might . |
| 11 | Ken now was ready to go back to stage revue , as though he wanted to translate some of the craziness of ‘ Carry On ’ to that more sophisticated theatre public . |
| 12 | Suddenly he passed his hand over his eyes as though he wanted to hide any emotion from her , and his mouth tightened into a grim line . |