Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] as [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tadpoles that develop from them are complete with mouths and external gills and they feed within the oviduct on tiny white flakes secreted from its walls , nibbling them just as though they were independent creatures browsing in a tiny pond . |
| 2 | I 'd tried to keep my voice light , coaxing , but she studied me coolly as though she 'd picked up my unspoken reservations and would not forget them . |
| 3 | Every time I try to explain things you brush me aside as though nothing I say can have any validity . ’ |
| 4 | They take him aside as though inviting him into their conspiracy . |
| 5 | He said it slowly as though talking to a child . |
| 6 | Beth remembered it all as though it was only yesterday ; it was etched on her mind and in her heart for all time . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , there 's no need to make it sound as though I 'm a plague-carrier . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll be down soon , ’ I said , and rocked to and fro in the bed to make noises which might make it sound as though I was getting up . |
| 9 | ‘ If you must know , ’ Leith exploded , her anger turning to fury at the way he , with his ‘ two men at least ’ comment , had made it sound as though she were some tart , ‘ I had a bad experience in the last place I worked . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Just one , ’ she said graciously , managing to make it sound as though she were doing him a big favour . |
| 11 | ‘ You and your little nerves , ’ he said and he put his fingers in the back of the collar of my dress and pulled it slightly as though I was a recalcitrant dog . |
| 12 | She studied it carefully as though it were some unfamiliar object she was seeing for the first time . |
| 13 | She gave it back after reading it , and he went through it carefully as though he had never seen it . |
| 14 | She gaped at the glass , leaning well away from it now as though it might be a dangerous thing . |
| 15 | He repeated it wonderingly as though the thought had never crossed his mind . |
| 16 | But as my mouth framed the words the little man looked down at me appealingly as though he knew what I was going to say . |
| 17 | As we dropped down towards Gunnerside , rabbits exploded in all directions and Bill had so many to choose from he lay down confused , unable to make his mind up , looking at us pitifully as though we could make up his mind for him . |