Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] as [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty yards away , through the storm , I glimpsed his figure , furiously lashing away as though his last fishing moment had come . |
| 2 | So every day for two months a group of cleaners managed by contracts manager Pat Kemp , went in to clean completely as and when the premises became available . |
| 3 | No storm mist shrouding the slopes , no rain , no lightning stabbing , no thunder rumbling , the clouds all swept away as though by magic , the sky blue , the mountains looking quite serene now , almost kindly in the late afternoon light . |
| 4 | Purposely pulled apart as when , torn to scraps |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A point many be slightly rammed home as when , in The Foreman Went To France , the brutality of the Germans in shooting refugees and bombing cities to kill innocent civilians is several times reiterated , but there is never any point in these pictures where one feels the dramatic structure is being distorted for purely message-directed ends . |
| 7 | The long opening movement of the Sixth Symphony is customarily played either as though all the cares of humanity were resting heavily upon its shoulders ( try the Previn/LSO on EMI ) or as a nerve-jangling protest against Stalinish suppression ( Moscow PO/Kondrashin on Chant du Monde ) . |
| 8 | A vagrant was discovered yesterday in Linz , the skin on his face and hands severely burnt almost as though he had been in a fire . |
| 9 | Erm it does n't look really as though out of , certainly out of this six that we 're going to get three . |
| 10 | Well , that does n't sound again as though it should be in the D P . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It stimulated memories ; perched aloft in his iron seat with mown grass a violent cloud behind him , he sometimes felt almost as though he was riding round Liverpool again . |
| 13 | The old woman once again muttered incoherently as though complaining and then pulling herself together said clearly : ‘ Does your father wish it ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ We can never dismiss yesterday as though it never happened , because we carry it with us from moment to moment until the end of our days . ’ |