Example sentences of "as [conj] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Aye , such heedlessness — such invitation to injury , as if to a friendly playmate — can imperil our battle planning , risking loss of personnel and materiel . |
| 2 | I would write letters glowing with warmth and tenderness , poems as though to a damsel with a dulcimer , gentle cadences for gentle ladies with eyes like emerald . |
| 3 | She spoke sadly , as though to a twenty-four-year-old there really was a time of lost innocence , and I suppose , if the twenty-four-year-old was a cocaine addict , then there was indeed such a time . |
| 4 | Those Right-Ons who had written off the Labour Party for ever now began to chew humble pie , and were drawn to Livingstone 's GLC as though to a magnet . |
| 5 | Henrietta started to explain patiently , as though to a child . |
| 6 | The Baronessa raised a long white finger , weighted at the base by a sapphire ring , and wagged it as though to a child . |