Example sentences of "as [conj] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | On the new album , Bring it on Home to Me stands out : mean Tyneside vocals and Irish pipes gloriously underpin the moody soul structures of Sam Cooke 's classic , the pipes taking off at one point as if on a Claptonesque guitar solo . |
| 3 | When the train reached Puno we left it as if on a military exercise . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | That way , by walking between the long tables as if on a tour of inspection , they could view the prospects without embarrassment . |
| 6 | They drew up with a rasp of gravel just behind the trailer , and Sergeant Allen 's head popped out as if on a string . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | It was two in the morning and she walked the short distance to her home as if on a cushion of air . |
| 10 | It spun as it went , and at once the spinning of earth and sky seemed to centre on it , as if on a vortex . |
| 11 | Deaf to my shouts , he remains hypnotized by the contents of his viewfinder , which unfold before him as if on a giant cinema-screen on Oscar night , where he is an enraptured member of the audience , completely disembodied from this temporal peril . |
| 12 | When the villagers stared , they smiled and waved as if on a royal tour . |
| 13 | The white marble squares on the pavement glowed as if on a phantom chessboard . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It grew a little clearer , as if on a gust of wind — but there was no wind ; swelling , then fading away . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 17 | She sat as if on a throne : her dark eyes glowed . |
| 18 | He jerked awake as if with a sixth sense as I paused in his doorway and said , ‘ What 's wrong , eh ? ’ |
| 19 | He turned his face back to her and she shook as if with a sudden , electric shock . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | He reached out slowly , as if with a conscious effort , and took hold of both my arms . |
| 22 | And there were dark rings under his eyes , which burned as if with a fever . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ You want to watch what you say , ’ he told her quietly , eyes burning as if with a long-term fever . |
| 25 | Her breasts wobbled as if with a slow rhythm of their own . |
| 26 | are — as if at a Brecht play — bereft of secure containment within illusion , and forced to take responsibility , conceptually at least , for the reshaping of reality beyond the page . |
| 27 | From the mound , he heard voices of people singing , as if at a banquet . |
| 28 | At last , as if at a secret signal , people leave off their fur hats . |
| 29 | 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 ! |
| 30 | Meredith in the high flow of his talk would describe anybody of whatever age or sex as ‘ gentlemen ’ as if at a council meeting . |