Example sentences of "as [subord] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This elderly Czech émigré , an unsuccessful literary man , is the godfather of her husband 's boyfriend , Tomas , a sharp-looking little hustler with disconcerting ways ( he asks for a glass of water as if issuing a command ) . |
| 2 | ‘ I am the centre of my existence , ’ Clare sang , as if chanting a psalm , pitching her voice an octave lower , as she pushed Josh to her playgroup the next morning . |
| 3 | Melissa was beginning to wish the conversation had never started ; the last thing she wanted was to become embroiled in a dispute between two women she hardly knew , but Rose was looking her squarely in the eye as if demanding a response to her outburst . |
| 4 | The mahout , as he gives a command , reinforces the order with leg pressure just as if riding a horse . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's all right , ’ he said , and held out the bloody hand as if refusing a favour . |
| 6 | The entire cast held their breath , as if watching a tightrope-walker stumble , and all let out a sigh of relief when he managed to right himself and make it through to the end of the speech . |
| 7 | She choked out Rosalba 's message , that he should meet her there , in the same place , tomorrow , that he should come , as if to light a candle , and she would be there , doing the same thing , early , before the morning Mass . |
| 8 | Case of the Negro Sommersett seventeen seventy-two , ’ Miss Phoebe murmured as if repeating a lesson . |
| 9 | Waters produced a light pointer and began to explain the topography as if conducting a band . |
| 10 | Leni smiled quickly , then just sat , very upright as if setting a good example , and seemed to be thinking something out . |
| 11 | If this is ignored , he wriggles his skin , as if to disturb a fly . |
| 12 | Now you have castles grim towering to heaven ; again , a storm-beat wall of cliff , the mist surgings beneath imitating the motions of the waves of ocean ; now you seem to get a peep of fairyland , and think you see the dwellers in a city of light : again , the veil seems as if hiding a very abode of woes , dark places of gloom . |
| 13 | The man leans forward , grasps the paper as if to take a closer look at it , and removes the small white packet of cocaine from behind my thumb . |
| 14 | Start the engine and simply run over the blocks as if using a vacuum cleaner . |
| 15 | When at last the waves sluice over them , each shakes her body convulsively so that the brown eggs swill away in the water and , with a touching gesture of apparent exultation , lifts her claws above her head as if waving a salute . |
| 16 | This new , familiar girl fussed around the table , patting at the rotting food as if plumping a baby 's eiderdown , waiting , waiting , waiting for the guests to arrive . |
| 17 | He pulled his overcoat about him , shivered exaggeratedly and , as if resuming a friendly conversation , complained mildly : ‘ It 's cold in here . |
| 18 | Now he looked positively sinister , his eyes continually flashing around as if seeking a challenge . |
| 19 | The point is , I know solicitors individually are totally immoral ’ — Gerald nodded assent as if accepting a compliment ‘ — and I suppose , as with any other bunch of thieves , there is honour among you . ’ |
| 20 | Iris closed her eyes and began speaking slowly as if reciting a lesson . |
| 21 | JEWKES leading PAMELA , now with her hands bound as if taking a walk on the estate . |
| 22 | This doubt of not quite knowing so worried me that I sometimes approached my visualization as if addressing a public meeting . |
| 23 | Dealing with wireless every day , Joe rarely listened when off duty to accounts of small successes put over in the announcer 's authoritative tone and the defeats intoned as if reporting a death : which it was , though not a single death , such as when Tobruk had fallen in June and Mussolini went into Libya . |
| 24 | ‘ Yes , I 'm up for it , ’ he says jokingly , as if ordering a pint of beer . |
| 25 | ‘ We just flies in a room , ’ he liked to say , moving quickly across the ruins of daily life , plane crashes , train wrecks , matricide , infanticide ; then , after swatting half of humanity , he 'd lower his voice and whisper , as if imparting a secret , ‘ We just flies , that 's all . |
| 26 | It sent her backing nervously towards the casement window as if to set a safer distance between the two of them . |
| 27 | My partner almost ran across the traverse as if to depart a potential trouble spot before it was aware of his passage . |
| 28 | Luke was still staring at her as if expecting a rabbit to emerge from her sleeve at any moment . |
| 29 | I am , after all , ’ he added , glaring round the room as if expecting a challenge , ‘ the executor of Sir Ralph 's . ’ |
| 30 | As always , she carefully split a word into two distinct parts , dropping her voice in a conspiratorial way , as if uttering a mild obscenity . |