Example sentences of "[prep] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 61 | I feel as if a bit of me had been chopped off . |
| 62 | The sitting-room was long , and looked as if a child had been let loose with buckets of primary colours . |
| 63 | ‘ as if a person could belong to anybody other than themselves ! |
| 64 | Admittedly , we do sometimes talk as if a person could have a pain in his foot and be unaware of it , perhaps while his attention is on something else , but this is explained by there being different levels of consciousness , or self-consciousness , in the mind ; it does not require our saying that pains have the same sort of mind-independent existence as tables . |
| 65 | Coming in behind him , she did n't see Midnight 's glance flicker to James Lambert , then away , as if a question had been asked and answered . |
| 66 | But I always wonder , as if a film had been taken from my eyes and I saw new worlds . ’ |
| 67 | place , on the other hand , is a determination of space as a coincidence of event and geography that is itself productive of meaning : as if a film were made only to be seen in one place , not another . |
| 68 | erm as if a window had never been opened for years and years and years that type of a house . |
| 69 | It was as if a harvest festival were enacted daily , for throughout the hours of market the church bell tolled quietly . |
| 70 | Her face seems to glow with happiness as if a vision has of a sudden become reality . |
| 71 | He turned back , as if a thought had just struck him . |
| 72 | It was as if a statue had started to weep . |
| 73 | It was as if a looking-glass had been diverted . |
| 74 | His very own face frowned back at him doubtfully as if a homunculus was imprisoned in the card , a mute model of himself . |
| 75 | It was as if a door had opened before him into a dim but positive light . |
| 76 | It was as if a voice not my own was making the call . |
| 77 | Not clear black , but a fog-soaked grey , haloing the distant watch-fires of the enemy in a smudged orange blur , as if a thumb had been smeared across a landscape canvas . |
| 78 | ‘ I love Harvey , ’ and little noises came out of the sphere of hair as if a canary was eating a hearty meal of seeds . |
| 79 | Carey looked worried and Doctor Agrippa sat as if a spectator at some masque or mummer 's play . |
| 80 | It is rather as if a burglar , when sued for the recovery of the stolen property or its value , sought contribution from a security guard who , by falling asleep while on duty , had made the burglary possible . |
| 81 | He must have been about seventeen and was so-pale and thin he looked as if a gust of wind might blow him away . |
| 82 | This is a Southern Asian fish which can reach lengths well over 24in ( 60cm ) , with a base colour of gold/brown , it then looks as if a tyre has run along the length of the body leaving dark brown tread markings all along the eel . |
| 83 | Her manner was impersonal and she seemed to regard my arrival with some relief , as if a problem had been solved . |
| 84 | His toe-nails looked as if a knife would blunt on them and could not have been cut for months , possibly years . |
| 85 | Gabriel popped up out of his barrel to see the brawl which was just beginning when suddenly everyone froze , as if a wizard had cast a spell over them . |
| 86 | The interior was probably quite well furnished in the ordinary way , but right now it looked as if a tornado had been through it . |
| 87 | as if her skin were too tight for her , as if a tornado were spinning inside her , whirling her into a silent frenzy . |
| 88 | And Hilderbridge lay in the sunshine , its slate roofs all turned to planes of silver , its spires sharp needles , as if a silversmith had made it and dropped it in the valley between the meadows and the moor . |
| 89 | Perched alone in its beauty as if a queen amongst her subjects . |
| 90 | It was as if a crumbling away of the carefully built-up layers of education , technical training , so-called civilisation , was taking place , leaving her stripped of all her carefully acquired adult assurance . |