Example sentences of "as [subord] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He raised his whisky right in front of the Apache , as if daring the Apache to try the same thing on him . |
| 2 | In Vienna 's Ringstrasse , Schorske observes , the new representative buildings did not face one another ; instead each faced the street as if to italicize the circular flow . |
| 3 | He saw one man motioning animatedly with his arms , as if to deflect the other boat from its route . |
| 4 | Had built a System and a City to deny the power of dreams , filling it with illusions and distractions , as if to kill the inner voices and silence the darkness deep within . |
| 5 | as if to emphasise the relative longevity of this sequence , however , it is also possible that some mosaics might pre-date the sequences of simple geometric and Orphic pavements . |
| 6 | Chola was leaning back laughing , making as if to enfold the old and new progeny under her two arms . |
| 7 | Smacks her forehead as if remembering the obvious . |
| 8 | as if to underline the shifting boundaries of our assumptions , the working group on design and technology has challenged its ‘ subject ’ status , preferring to describe it as a ‘ capability ’ that will be developed not only through design technology , business studies , information technology and home economics , but through most other subjects as well . |
| 9 | Almost as if to test the political religious alliance of catholic nationalists in the South , the constitutional issue of divorce arose in 1986 as part of Dr Garret FitzGerald 's constitutional crusade ( see Cooney 1986 ) to make the Southern state more palatable to Northerners . |
| 10 | Francis Bacon advised King James to hold on to his royal wastes and hunting forests for exactly this potential ; and , as if to confirm the good sense of such drainage enterprises , a series of bad winters between 1607 and 1613 created some of the worst floods in living memory . |
| 11 | His voice had become blank , as if reflecting the utter bleakness of his life . |
| 12 | She hesitated , as if seeking the appropriate words . |
| 13 | In her own room she stood , her hands clenched and pressed tightly against her breast-bone as if to ease the terrible ache and fear whirling there . |
| 14 | as if to set the final scene , the moon now rode majestically clear of the clouds , forming a hard , bright discus in the star-pitted blackness of the night . |
| 15 | It was brown , as far as Hoomey could see , and its ribs stuck out like his own , and its great projecting hip-bones were on a level with his head , sticking out like girders as if to hold the gaunt body together . |
| 16 | She flexed herself , she breathed spasmodically as if to confuse the natural rhythms of her body . |
| 17 | He also had in him the wrathful patriarch of the Protestant religion , for he was the product of the two warring faiths , of an Irish Catholic mother and an Irish Presbyterian father , and of the Sunday ritual my mother would repeatedly describe as if narrating the auspicious early life of a saint . |
| 18 | It bowed its ruined head to its chest as if to inspect the squealing assailant now hanging from its buckled shoulder with frantic claws . |
| 19 | In a single serpentine sentence Porfiry seems to dissolve into his own prose , showering Raskolnikov with a patter of tiny verbal blows as if exercising the Russian particle for its own sake ( nu da uzh ) , telling him that he considers him ‘ quite incapable ’ of committing suicide , and in the same breath to leave ‘ a short circumstantial note if he does . |
| 20 | Wolsey stroked his chin as if feeling the gentle stubble now growing there . |
| 21 | Lucas had been relieved of belt , tie , shoelaces , and everything in his pockets , and now he sat in the far corner on the mattress with his knees drawn up and his arms clasped around them , as if to present the smallest possible outer surface to the world . |
| 22 | Crossing the road to water the bed of dahlias and moon daisies and nasturtiums she kept on the grass margin across the road from her door at the beginning of the village , Mrs Reynolds paused to watch Rose make her way round by the bridge to the post office and muttered venomously , ‘ There 's no fool like an old fool' , as if confronting the worst part of her own nature . |
| 23 | Rohmer proffered it nonchalantly and Pearce sat again , scrutinising it as if examining the small print . |
| 24 | She is often shown with doves perching on her ; sometimes birds are shown perched on sacral horns or on a double-axe , as if to suggest the invisible presence of the goddess . |
| 25 | Spitting it on to the floor , he raised the half-empty bottle to his lips and drank down the fiery vodka in great gulps , as if to drown the useless curses which rose in his throat . |
| 26 | Morse stood where he was , listening , and staring up at the sky as if viewing the unsuspected behaviour of some distant galaxy . |
| 27 | as if to match the tense atmosphere inside the car , the sun had disappeared behind some ominously black clouds that had crept over the horizon . |
| 28 | Obispal 's gaze drifted towards Meh'Lindi , and he frowned as if adding the final piece to a puzzle which had been perplexing him , but not liking the pattern that he saw . |
| 29 | From the bunk below him Rod Porter grunted and turned over , as if to resume the peaceful sleep from which he 'd just been disturbed . |
| 30 | as if to complete the gloomy atmosphere , it was beginning to rain . |