Example sentences of "as [subord] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was also a noisy eater , as if providing an orchestral accompaniment for his brother . |
| 2 | In Vienna 's Ringstrasse , Schorske observes , the new representative buildings did not face one another ; instead each faced the street as if to italicize the circular flow . |
| 3 | He saw one man motioning animatedly with his arms , as if to deflect the other boat from its route . |
| 4 | Had built a System and a City to deny the power of dreams , filling it with illusions and distractions , as if to kill the inner voices and silence the darkness deep within . |
| 5 | as if to emphasise the relative longevity of this sequence , however , it is also possible that some mosaics might pre-date the sequences of simple geometric and Orphic pavements . |
| 6 | And as if to brook no further argument , Madame Gautier took a large paper bag and emptied the entire contents of the cookie jar into it . |
| 7 | as if to underline the shifting boundaries of our assumptions , the working group on design and technology has challenged its ‘ subject ’ status , preferring to describe it as a ‘ capability ’ that will be developed not only through design technology , business studies , information technology and home economics , but through most other subjects as well . |
| 8 | Franco had his arm around his elder brother 's shoulder , his mouth close to his face , his other arm gesticulating gracefully , as if conducting an invisible band of players . |
| 9 | Leni smiled quickly , then just sat , very upright as if setting a good example , and seemed to be thinking something out . |
| 10 | Francis Bacon advised King James to hold on to his royal wastes and hunting forests for exactly this potential ; and , as if to confirm the good sense of such drainage enterprises , a series of bad winters between 1607 and 1613 created some of the worst floods in living memory . |
| 11 | ‘ He was n't cruel , really , ’ she said , as if defying an invisible accuser . |
| 12 | His voice had become blank , as if reflecting the utter bleakness of his life . |
| 13 | Now you have castles grim towering to heaven ; again , a storm-beat wall of cliff , the mist surgings beneath imitating the motions of the waves of ocean ; now you seem to get a peep of fairyland , and think you see the dwellers in a city of light : again , the veil seems as if hiding a very abode of woes , dark places of gloom . |
| 14 | The man leans forward , grasps the paper as if to take a closer look at it , and removes the small white packet of cocaine from behind my thumb . |
| 15 | He pulled his overcoat about him , shivered exaggeratedly and , as if resuming a friendly conversation , complained mildly : ‘ It 's cold in here . |
| 16 | She hesitated , as if seeking the appropriate words . |
| 17 | This doubt of not quite knowing so worried me that I sometimes approached my visualization as if addressing a public meeting . |
| 18 | Her heart was hammering and she felt sick , but she drew a steadying breath and began to speak , as if addressing an importunate stranger , her voice icily calm , and frightening in its intensity . |
| 19 | In her own room she stood , her hands clenched and pressed tightly against her breast-bone as if to ease the terrible ache and fear whirling there . |
| 20 | It sent her backing nervously towards the casement window as if to set a safer distance between the two of them . |
| 21 | as if to set the final scene , the moon now rode majestically clear of the clouds , forming a hard , bright discus in the star-pitted blackness of the night . |
| 22 | It was brown , as far as Hoomey could see , and its ribs stuck out like his own , and its great projecting hip-bones were on a level with his head , sticking out like girders as if to hold the gaunt body together . |
| 23 | My partner almost ran across the traverse as if to depart a potential trouble spot before it was aware of his passage . |
| 24 | She flexed herself , she breathed spasmodically as if to confuse the natural rhythms of her body . |
| 25 | Dr Gysi made his attempt at power before 2,700 demoralised party delegates at this weekend 's emergency congress as if delivering an impassioned plea in court , throwing up his arms and heaving his shoulders as he made a point . |
| 26 | It bowed its ruined head to its chest as if to inspect the squealing assailant now hanging from its buckled shoulder with frantic claws . |
| 27 | In a single serpentine sentence Porfiry seems to dissolve into his own prose , showering Raskolnikov with a patter of tiny verbal blows as if exercising the Russian particle for its own sake ( nu da uzh ) , telling him that he considers him ‘ quite incapable ’ of committing suicide , and in the same breath to leave ‘ a short circumstantial note if he does . |
| 28 | As always , she carefully split a word into two distinct parts , dropping her voice in a conspiratorial way , as if uttering a mild obscenity . |
| 29 | Wolsey stroked his chin as if feeling the gentle stubble now growing there . |
| 30 | MacMillan has made this last song a welcome to the future as the three protagonists quietly and slowly come forwards , their hands linked , gradually raising their heads as if greeting a new day . |