Example sentences of "as [subord] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sat as if on a throne : her dark eyes glowed . |
| 2 | It grew a little clearer , as if on a gust of wind — but there was no wind ; swelling , then fading away . |
| 3 | As soon as I see that a patient 's breathing pattern is changing dramatically or that the eye movement behind the closed lids is altering , I instruct him to be aware of and to understand all that is happening but to see it as if on a film or television screen , so that he is completely detached and feels no physical or mental distress whatsoever . |
| 4 | He hummed softly ‘ There 'll always be an England ’ and joked as he shifted the weight of his rucksack ‘ as if on a walking holiday ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was two in the morning and she walked the short distance to her home as if on a cushion of air . |
| 7 | That way , by walking between the long tables as if on a tour of inspection , they could view the prospects without embarrassment . |
| 8 | ‘ He gave me six points for this country so clearly that I saw them as if on a black-board and could simply copy them down . ’ |
| 9 | They drew up with a rasp of gravel just behind the trailer , and Sergeant Allen 's head popped out as if on a string . |
| 10 | One alternative Chinese perspective is shen yuan , in which the viewer is placed as if on a hill , and the horizon line is thus high up , almost a bird 's eye view . |
| 11 | It spun as it went , and at once the spinning of earth and sky seemed to centre on it , as if on a vortex . |
| 12 | Words tumbled through his mind , and inside his head he could see himself — as if on a stage — daring the figure to make its business known . |
| 13 | He paced up and down between the scullery and the living-room as if on the deck of a ship . |
| 14 | One must talk to people physically present as if on the telephone , where frequent interjections and verbal responses must be given if only to assure the other party that one is still paying attention . |
| 15 | It juddered again , twisted … and fell from the wall on to the tiled floor ; severed clean at the ankle as if with a butcher 's knife . |
| 16 | The " eye " , as if with a will of its own , becomes the subject-agent in " as far as the eye could reach " ( 1 ) , " My eye followed the light cloud " ( 6 ) , " the only thing on which the eye could rest ( 4 ) . |
| 17 | And there were dark rings under his eyes , which burned as if with a fever . |
| 18 | When at last he came to his senses , rather ashamed of his lapse into sensitivity , the floor around him was thickly carpeted with tiny discarded wings , as if with the residue of his own aerial poetic thoughts . |
| 19 | Jean-François Briant cuts sheets of steel into more or less identifiable natural forms , leaves with veins incised into openings , ears of corn , vegetable silhouettes which slide imperceptibly towards representations of objects as if at every fold and cut the metal allowed one to read into it fragments of history , of a previous life . |
| 20 | Meredith in the high flow of his talk would describe anybody of whatever age or sex as ‘ gentlemen ’ as if at a council meeting . |
| 21 | From the mound , he heard voices of people singing , as if at a banquet . |
| 22 | But the gabble was such that the child could n't distinguish what it was they wanted , until the old woman cried , ‘ No candy rock today ! 'T IS all gone , all gone , ’ at which , one after the other , the children , as if at a signal , stopped gabbling and took up the chant : ‘ Raggie Aggie ! |
| 23 | as if at a signal , nine silver-helmed figures stepped from the forest and stood round the edge of the glade , spears glinting in the gloom . |
| 24 | She looked around the vestibule , suddenly aware that this room where she ate a brioche and drank milky coffee as if at a feast of the gods on those mornings when she managed to get up in time was a mere dingy parlour , the curtains grey with city smuts , the tables pocked and charred by cigarettes . |
| 25 | Grant looks this way and that , as if at a junction . |
| 26 | Speaking brightly to close the gaps , as if at a party ) : So it 's getting near Christmas . |
| 27 | The slow sliding drift towards five o'clock on a Friday afternoon would fill me with panic , as if at the presence of life ebbing . |
| 28 | Of the three , that showing John Tradescant is the finest , for neither corpse in the other two paintings is shown in shrouds , both women having been painted as if at the moment of death rather than after the laying-out . |
| 29 | All the problems that we have been wrestling with over recent years in attempting to formulate a set of principles for communicative language teaching suddenly vanish as if at the waving of a wand . |
| 30 | I speak as if to a child , and add , ‘ On Friday . ’ |