Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] as [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took her hand between both his own , turning it palm upwards and gazing down as though he were a fortune-teller , searching the damp pinkness of her flesh for answers to all sorts of impossible questions . |
| 2 | Twenty yards away , through the storm , I glimpsed his figure , furiously lashing away as though his last fishing moment had come . |
| 3 | Now she saw him , standing on the pavement outside the church , holding his thumb out to her and grinning beseechingly as though he were some hopeful teenager off on the hippy trail . |
| 4 | She cast about , looking downwards as though she had dropped something . |
| 5 | But I I du n no , I see it 's not once you 're u actually up here , looking I think it 's different when you 're up here looking back as when you 're over there looking up here . |
| 6 | looking about as though for somebody she expected to see . |
| 7 | ‘ Nature takes delight in Nature , ’ Edward whispered as we turned ; then , a little louder , ‘ Nature contains Nature ’ ; and shouting then as though the triumph of the hour was entirely his : ‘ And Nature can overcome Nature . ’ |
| 8 | There ai n't so many people about , and them that are look like they 're real busy — you know , just hurrying along as though they 're in a rush to get home . |
| 9 | It was absolutely pouring down as though someone up top was emptying buckets . |
| 10 | A girl emerged from the dairy with a pan of milk and was instantly surrounded by the stable cats , mewing pleadingly as though they had not caught a single mouse for days . |
| 11 | We are lying here as though we had a chance of enjoying a quiet time Am I waiting until I become a little older ? |
| 12 | Moving slowly as though she could put off the dreaded moment forever , she changed into her favourite show costume — a long glittery number in gold . |
| 13 | Salim presents himself in a light which requires the reader to be told that , although he himself has been making good , he is grieved , or affects to be , by the discovery that the slavish Metty has been getting on : ‘ You 've been very much getting on as though you 're your own man . ’ |
| 14 | The shrine and the whole house shook and the ground beneath it seemed to be shifting away as though in an earthquake . |
| 15 | And she added , speaking quietly as though to herself , ‘ He knows where it is . ’ |
| 16 | They stood in groups around the bed smiling and talking , joking gently as though their words were necessary medicine . |
| 17 | But — oh , Ellie , there was such a to-do last time , Phena carrying on as though she were the only person in the world who had been lied to , and I know it was hard for her , and Feargal would have given her all this without a blink , but she wanted to play the martyr , and now makes him pay for it in oh , so many little ways . ’ |
| 18 | Neither partner has given it a thought for years , but let some outsider come barging in as though he owned the place and it 's war . |
| 19 | A whispered ‘ Yes , ’ and he was back on the verandah , supporting himself on the rail , and bending over as though at any moment he might vomit . |
| 20 | The tremor of his head , which had begun only lately , had grown more distinct during this conversation ; starting low and shuttling up as though following a fly on a windowpane . |
| 21 | I thought about it calmly , still standing there as though nothing had passed through my mind but the continual computation guiding the kite , and I thought it seemed reasonable . |
| 22 | A darkly florid officer with black moustache walked briskly through the debris , gazing round as though looking for someone . |
| 23 | She was pierced by his compassion , powerless to stem the flood of tears welling up as though a dam had finally burst within her . |
| 24 | In particular , to be a " regular casual " working more or less continuously for one organisation is incompatible with working only as and when one chooses . |
| 25 | Isabel gasped , jerking back as though he had struck her . |