Example sentences of "as [subord] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once Sheila was securely set towards the civil service as well , as if out of weakness or guilt Moran began courting her with vague , tentative offers ; if she were desperate to go to university they could still look into ways of how it could be managed and they would try to manage it somehow no matter how hard it was . |
| 2 | It was not , you went on thinking , knowing vaguely about butterflies , a future barred to the wrinkled and whitish corpses on your plate , tinged with green as if out of obedience to your grandmother 's convictions they had surrendered their essences to the cabbage . |
| 3 | Clearly Looe schoolboys were expected to have a nautical bent and those who had were promised they would ‘ … be shown to take Observations of the Sun , Moon and Stars so expeditiously and accurately as if actually at sea , Looe having the advantage of the Horizon thereat upwards of 110 degrees ’ . |
| 4 | A trip organiser said : ‘ They reacted as if still at home . ’ |
| 5 | His head still down , fingers tracing on his brow as if still in pain from the noise they had just heard . |
| 6 | Whisky had made him heavy in the torso and puffed up his face so that the true features were blurred , as if permanently in shadow . |