Example sentences of "[vb past] as [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wandered as in a dream through the gate and across the road . |
| 2 | They moved as in a dance . |
| 3 | Rogers always seemed as unlike a comedy film producer as Kenneth Horne differed from the conventional idea of comedian . |
| 4 | I walked as in a nightmare , aware of nothing but the few yards of tarmac ahead and stopping every few yards . |
| 5 | But when he looked round at her he smiled as at a companion-general in a war . |
| 6 | They looked like anatomies of death , they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves , they did eat dead carrions , happy where they could find them , yea , and one another soon after , insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves , and if they found a plot of water cress or shamrocks , there they flocked as to a feast for the time , yet not able long to continue therewithal , that in short space there were none almost left , and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man or beast . |
| 7 | He did not meet his mother from infancy until the age of twelve , when they found themselves accidentally in the same workhouse : but instead of the ‘ gush of tenderness ’ between them of which he had dreamt , ‘ her expression was so chilling that the valves of my heart closed as with a snap … |