Example sentences of "[adv] as [subord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few days later , immediately alongside the busy M40 , a pause at traffic-lights enabled me to glance at a dense assembly of birds , as closely-packed as starlings , extending for almost a quarter of a mile along the edge of the arable field , and I was able to identify them as a mixture of Lapwing and ‘ goldies , ’ all immobile , and many of the latter with their heads tucked in as if fast asleep . |
| 2 | If the prey looks up and stares straight at the lion or tiger , the big cat looks sheepishly away as if suddenly indifferent to the whole business of predation . |
| 3 | Then , straightening up as if already the burden of sovereignty weighed heavily on his shoulders , he made his reply . ’ |
| 4 | Clearly Looe schoolboys were expected to have a nautical bent and those who had were promised they would ‘ … be shown to take Observations of the Sun , Moon and Stars so expeditiously and accurately as if actually at sea , Looe having the advantage of the Horizon thereat upwards of 110 degrees ’ . |
| 5 | She took the boy from him roughly as if so much exaggerated worship offended her . |
| 6 | Audiences often wondered if the bass-grappling guy who stared them out as if totally helpless was actually mute . |
| 7 | Stephen Holly spoke sharply as if now he regretted his decision to admit the stranger . |
| 8 | Directly to his left the flint walls of Martyr 's Cottage glistened like marbles in the afternoon sun and less than half a mile to the north , set back among the Californian pines which fringed that part of the coast , was the dull square cottage rented by Hilary Robarts , a neatly proportional suburban villa incongruously set down on this bleak headland and facing inland as if resolutely ignoring the sea . |
| 9 | He jerked forward as if physically attacked ready to defend himself . |