Example sentences of "[vb past] as [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Burun gestured as if the matter was of little concern . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She spread hay over him for warmth , but it seemed as if the fever would shake him to pieces . |
| 5 | At the time it seemed as if the government had crushed the nationalist movement by locking up its leaders for life . |
| 6 | It seemed as if the Führer was right yet again , and that the end of the Russian campaign was only a few weeks away . |
| 7 | For a time it seemed as if the Everqueen of Avelorn was lost and the realm with her . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It seemed as if the phone itself was in paroxysm , all squawk and splat like a cabby 's radio . |
| 10 | It seemed as if the end of the world had come . |
| 11 | Surprisingly little drink was enough to intoxicate him but it seemed as if the wine released the power in him . |
| 12 | It seemed as if the woman in the adjacent chair had shuffled herself closer . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It seemed as if the world had stopped to listen . |
| 15 | Still looking down , it seemed as if the pattern of squares was moving . |
| 16 | At the end of September it seemed as if the monsoon was drawing to a close . |
| 17 | ‘ But truly , after Isabelle 's departure , it often seemed as if the family had been cursed . ’ |
| 18 | When the coin flipped over , it seemed as if the punishment would be never-ending . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Alexei nodded as if the news pleased him . |
| 22 | Tyrell sighed as if the magnitude of human folly never failed to appal him . |
| 23 | But that can not be , mama , Anne protested as if the duchess had somehow been misinformed . |
| 24 | Ruth felt as if a blow had been delivered to her ribs with a mallet . |
| 25 | Virginia felt as if a steel door had slammed shut inside her . |
| 26 | When Virginia Woolf first read Lawrence , she said she felt as if a curtain had been thrown back , so she could see , clearly , for the first time , the intensity of family relationships . |
| 27 | Rokeya 's flat was so precisely as Lee remembered it that she felt as if no time had passed between the last time she had been inside it and the present day . |
| 28 | I felt as if every muscle had been ripped out . |
| 29 | I loved her , and when she died I felt as if every light in the world had dimmed . ’ |
| 30 | IT FELT as if an earthquake had just hit the City . |