Example sentences of "[prep] [subord] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | His wife , who had miscarried he was no longer sure how many times , had stayed in bed two or three weeks without setting her foot to the floor on every occasion , and had then spent a week or so more , he remembered , on a sofa in the drawing-room looking not merely untouchable but as if even a heavy footstep across the hall might shatter her into pieces like spun glass . |
| 2 | Bob looked at me as if only a muppet would ask a question like that . |
| 3 | as if only a god could be told |
| 4 | Evelyn Tubb 's delivery of ( track 3 ) , accompanied by three viols , and later of ( track 18 ) is marked by her attention to textual nuance , at times singing of love as if merely a narrator , and at others with the passion of somebody overtaken by emotion . |
| 5 | ‘ It seemed as if quite a lot of people had had the same dream — or a similar one , at least — there were similar elements in all of them . |
| 6 | We thus have an apparent paradox : a modern stock-exchange law without a stock exchange , but an established banking system without as yet a modern banking law . |