Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [subord] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was also the case when we asked about whether the police discri-minated against certain groups , two-thirds of Blacks and Whites believing this but only about one-third of Asians . |
| 2 | Its eyes gleamed as if the irises were neon rings . |
| 3 | As the memorandum was written , serious concerns arose about whether the child 's interests would paramount . |
| 4 | You could not have called it grey , it was of some colour that had never been given a name , and it glowed as if the moon and stars were behind the skin of it , waiting to break through . |
| 5 | who moved as if the soles were flapping off . |
| 6 | Burun gestured as if the matter was of little concern . |
| 7 | Yet he was such a skilful flyer that to an American of the Lafayette Squadron it seemed as if a plane obeyed his thoughts rather than the controls , and at Verdun alone he shot down six German aircraft and a balloon . |
| 8 | It seemed as if the instruments they held — long pipes and hand drums — were somehow becoming part of their bodies . |
| 9 | She spread hay over him for warmth , but it seemed as if the fever would shake him to pieces . |
| 10 | It seemed as if the nurses were already part of the angelic host as they flew along the outdoor corridors with provisions , that the Steward 's staff , under the direction of Mr Charles Read , soon to be a Desert Rat , had brought in from West Kensington , Fulham and Chelsea . |
| 11 | At the time it seemed as if the government had crushed the nationalist movement by locking up its leaders for life . |
| 12 | It seemed as if the Führer was right yet again , and that the end of the Russian campaign was only a few weeks away . |
| 13 | For a time it seemed as if the Everqueen of Avelorn was lost and the realm with her . |
| 14 | At first , it seemed as if the windows had all cracked under the impact of the strike . |
| 15 | Then , just when Rachel was feeling she wanted it to go on forever , this exciting masquerade between the two of them where it seemed as if the rest of the world did n't exist , she found herself beside Danny who began stuttering and waving his arms , obviously trying to tell her something . |
| 16 | It seemed as if the phone itself was in paroxysm , all squawk and splat like a cabby 's radio . |
| 17 | It seemed as if the end of the world had come . |
| 18 | Surprisingly little drink was enough to intoxicate him but it seemed as if the wine released the power in him . |
| 19 | It seemed as if the woman in the adjacent chair had shuffled herself closer . |
| 20 | Not so long ago it seemed as if the world was to divide into three main trading blocks : the EC based around the West German economy ; a Northern American block based around the US-Canadian free trade area , and a Pacific unit incorporating the Asian tigers with Japan and the yen at the centre . |
| 21 | It seemed as if the world had stopped to listen . |
| 22 | Still looking down , it seemed as if the pattern of squares was moving . |
| 23 | At the end of September it seemed as if the monsoon was drawing to a close . |
| 24 | ‘ But truly , after Isabelle 's departure , it often seemed as if the family had been cursed . ’ |
| 25 | When the coin flipped over , it seemed as if the punishment would be never-ending . |
| 26 | I never understood where all these squares of material came from because the demand was enormous ; to meet it the Madonna 's dress would have had to be changed almost every week . |
| 27 | Peter Fallon , owner of the Gallery Press and Katherine 's literary agent , says of Dr Kavanagh : ‘ Because he 'd devoted certain energies to Patrick , he acted as if the man were entirely his . |
| 28 | This is brave talk after the event , but in 1981 the speaker certainly acted as if the president had a mandate , meekly conceding control over the timetable and repeatedly running up the white flag before crucial votes . |
| 29 | Alexei nodded as if the news pleased him . |
| 30 | Tyrell sighed as if the magnitude of human folly never failed to appal him . |