Example sentences of "as [conj] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look straight ahead as if gazing at a place on a wall . |
| 2 | Which is not to say he 's a hippy soul surfer , a revivalist sporting a long Malibu board and casually riding a wave 's length as if strolling in the park . |
| 3 | ‘ as if contending with the elements were not enough , ’ Matthau recalled , ‘ Barbra kept asking Gene whether he did n't think it would be better if I did this on this line , and that on the other , etc , etc- and I told her to stop directing the fucking picture … |
| 4 | He paused after each question , stared over our heads , then jerked out the next as if reading from a cueboard behind us . |
| 5 | ‘ What are you doing here ? ’ she said as if reading from a Gestapo training manual . |
| 6 | Then said , as if reading from an autocue : |
| 7 | The shuttle stopped , trembling , as if straining at a leash . |
| 8 | Both sides were scrupulously polite , as if participating in a chess tournament . |
| 9 | Corbelled gargoyles bristled , as if spewing into the warp . |
| 10 | Googol fiddled ostentatiously with the bandana round his brow as if toying with the idea of removing what masked his third eye , the warp-eye , a hostile glare from which could kill , as was widely known though seldom tested . |
| 11 | Perhaps it was the way his eyes flicked about as if hoping for an attacker to appear , or maybe it was the slight inclination of his head . |
| 12 | Changed , he returned into the lounge to find her standing at the window again , as if watching for the assassin 's return . |
| 13 | He looked at me and chewed his bottom lip as if searching for a remnant of breakfast . |
| 14 | He tilts his head and gazes into my face as if searching for the answer . |
| 15 | He started to pat his pockets , as if searching for an ID . |
| 16 | He spoke pleasantly , as if passing on a gem of advice to a good friend . |
| 17 | On the top of the cart , as if resting on a bed of cushions , a young boy with breeches cut high above the knee lay fast asleep . |
| 18 | There was a narrow alley with dustbins in it at the bottom of the garden and , beyond that , the rude and unkempt backsides of a row of tenement houses with blind , curtained windows and washing ( long pants , vests , sheets , shirts ) limp in the windless air , strung out on high lines running from pulleys at far-up windows.Tin baths , like giant snails , stuck half-way up the walls as if resting in a trip to the top . |
| 19 | When , in the last play of the Henry VI trilogy , the future Richard III is presenting to the audience his capabilities — as if auditioning for the role of hypocrite — he exults at being able to By grouping all those exempla of deceit Shakespeare makes us unconscious of the initial role-playing of the actor involved , alerting us to the deceptions he is about to foist on others . |
| 20 | as if looking for a quarrel he went on to exaggerate the uncompromising nature of his position . |
| 21 | Its engine is missing badly and it 's circling round as if looking for a landing-place . |
| 22 | The blackjack tail as if looking for a target , |
| 23 | Fortunately , Nevil was n't looking in his mirror , he had his head out of the driver 's window as if looking for a street name . |
| 24 | Mounce held the note up to the light , as if looking for a watermark . |
| 25 | Clive searched his pockets , as if looking for a train ticket . |
| 26 | She examined her hands , white with chalk , as if looking for the source of some small pain , then gave up on that and began to dust herself down . |
| 27 | John Harbour , as if looking into a mirror , leaned chummily against Babs Osborne and stared adoringly at the camera . |
| 28 | In the presence of a Norman magnate of such power and dignity this other Norman Robert , monastic though he was by choice , harked back to his own heredity , and blossomed as if preening before a mirror . |
| 29 | Below them were straight roads ridged above the fields , with villages strung along them as if clinging to the security of high ground ; isolated farms with their roofs so low that they looked half submerged in the peat ; an occasional church tower standing majestically apart from its village with the gravestones planted round it like crooked teeth . |
| 30 | Left leg straight , foot still braced against the ground , heel raised , toes gouged into the litter of leaves as if scrabbling for a hold . |