Example sentences of "[adv] as [conj] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They stood in groups around the bed smiling and talking , joking gently as though their words were necessary medicine . |
| 2 | She managed to walk with a reasonable degree of grace and dignity till she reached the back door , then scuttled inside as though her very life depended on it , taking the back stairs two at a time as she rushed to the bedroom to find a robe . |
| 3 | Twenty yards away , through the storm , I glimpsed his figure , furiously lashing away as though his last fishing moment had come . |
| 4 | He led the way into the next field , a pasture : and here they all fell to feeding , nibbling their way over the grass as easily as though their warren were close by . |
| 5 | But Mrs McWhirter , cutting her losses , spent most of her time away , on the excuse that she was nursing her mother ; and the daughter , if she felt like coming home , preferred to regard home as where her mother was . |
| 6 | It was then that Fat Watt regarded them most sullenly as though their nearness was a threat . |
| 7 | My heart would suddenly start beating very fast as though my life was beating out of me . |
| 8 | I kept telling myself that I had killed her — had killed her as surely as if my own hands had sent her plunging down into the muddy waters of the Thames . |
| 9 | His tone was urgent , almost as though her answer was important to him . |
| 10 | The poor poppets were being forced to attach lifelines to the upper cables and edge across as though their lives depended on it . |
| 11 | When he came to a stream or a fallen tree trunk , he would launch himself like a ballet dancer , but in slow motion , and land as softly as if his feet were scatter cushions . |
| 12 | Molly went on laying the table , placing knives and forks neatly as though her sanity depended on it . |