Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [conj] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We floated on as if in a timeless limbo . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Then lay buckram on top , with bump sandwiched in between and with a 2.5 cm ( 1in ) border of fabric showing all round . |
| 4 | The Vietminh had seemed to bring it off as if by a miracle . |
| 5 | The heat from the room below belched up as if from a furnace . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It climbs up to and over a ridge and on the ascent reveals an exquisite vista of Loch Maree , a foretaste of joys to come . |
| 8 | The third was that the costs of failure in Russia — from civil strife within its borders , up to and including a new international arms race — would be far greater to the rest of the world than the costs of economic failure in , say , Zaire . |
| 9 | Courses leading to qualifications up to and including A level or its equivalent are generally referred to as non-advanced further education ( NAFE ) ; qualifications above A-level standard as advanced further education ( AFE ) . |
| 10 | They drew up with a rasp of gravel just behind the trailer , and Sergeant Allen 's head popped out as if on a string . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Two main types were developed , depending on whether water flowed out of or into a graduated vessel . |
| 13 | They were standing about as if in a daze , gazing about at the littered corpses and wounded . |