Example sentences of "as [subord] [v-ing] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leni smiled quickly , then just sat , very upright as if setting a good example , and seemed to be thinking something out . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He pulled his overcoat about him , shivered exaggeratedly and , as if resuming a friendly conversation , complained mildly : ‘ It 's cold in here . |
| 4 | This doubt of not quite knowing so worried me that I sometimes approached my visualization as if addressing a public meeting . |
| 5 | As always , she carefully split a word into two distinct parts , dropping her voice in a conspiratorial way , as if uttering a mild obscenity . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Sometimes Sebastian was there , sometimes he was n't , but , whichever way Rosemary 's conscience pulled , she — sometimes late , as if having a last-minute tug-o'-war with her upbringing — was always there . |
| 8 | He looked at it suspiciously , and almost as if contemplating a sly kick at one of the wheels , as he unloaded the food parcels the diminutive and cheery Mrs Binkworthy thought Fenella needed . |
| 9 | ‘ You — ’ Then , as if making a supreme effort to block out any fury from his voice , he said , ‘ Yes , that is a condition of employment , but I wo n't hold you to it . |
| 10 | Two men dressed in long underwear would shake hands and then bend forward as if making a deep bow to each other . |
| 11 | He bent his head to her breast again , still nuzzling through the thin cotton , as if finding a perverse pleasure in delaying the moment when his lips would trail their way across her flushed skin . |
| 12 | Of modern poets , I had of course spoken to the boys — and to the masters for that matter , for most had ventured no further than Hardy and Houseman , like the Brasenose dons — of Eliot , Pound and the later Yeats ; and I discovered that they lapped this up as if slaking a mental thirst . |
| 13 | He rolls the word around his mouth , as if savouring a good malt . |
| 14 | Benjamin smiled as if savouring a secret joke . |
| 15 | She sat down on the roses-and-castles chair with a ludicrous sense of formality , as if paying a polite call in a tailored suit and a small , veiled hat . |