Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [subord] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw it was Alec , walking slowly as if in a daze , his right hand held up to his nose and mouth , his eyes downcast . |
| 2 | We floated on as if in a timeless limbo . |
| 3 | Nor can it be compared with the ballerina 's dance in Rhapsodie where she wafts to and fro as if in a dream before breaking into her solo . |
| 4 | The way that had been made through the fallen rock was very narrow and uneven and to take John out he was laid on a board and pushed along as if on a sledge . |
| 5 | If the current GATT proposals for opening up world trade for agriculture were inaugurated , he said , they would force Third World farmers to industrialise their production or be " washed away as if by a catastrophic flood " . |
| 6 | He had , however , and deliberately , put these words away as if in a cupboard . |
| 7 | It was two in the morning and she walked the short distance to her home as if on a cushion of air . |
| 8 | The Vietminh had seemed to bring it off as if by a miracle . |
| 9 | The heat from the room below belched up as if from a furnace . |
| 10 | The smell was terrible , worse than anything Maggie had ever known , and on this frosty morning steam came up as if from a dung heap . |
| 11 | They drew up with a rasp of gravel just behind the trailer , and Sergeant Allen 's head popped out as if on a string . |
| 12 | I sat right at the front , my head tilted back as if for a nose-bleed , the stick of my sherbet lolly angled like a thermometer , in a quiet fever of excitement . |
| 13 | We move along the road fast as if in a dream . |
| 14 | Satisfied , Barry Silk laid the last item of his equipment lovingly down , almost as if for a kit inspection . |
| 15 | But as quickly as his arm had gone out , it returned to his side , jerked back there as if by a spring ; and he noticed that his action had n't gone unnoticed by Mick . |
| 16 | They were standing about as if in a daze , gazing about at the littered corpses and wounded . |
| 17 | The portrait of Chéron , however , shows a mild , mean little man with bowler hat and moustache , sitting legs wide apart as if astride a horse . |
| 18 | Santerre and his wife were like waxen effigies but Rachel , her face slightly flushed , leaned forward as if without a care in the world . |
| 19 | The object , like the subject , has no consonants , and is attained by pushing the lips forward as if for a kiss . |