Example sentences of "[vb pp] as though " in BNC.
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| 1 | The knife — the crucial prop here — is visually represented by a fist clenched as though round the knife handle . |
| 2 | Then she forced a smile , and said , ‘ Of course , Damien : and proffered a cheek , averted as though she was expecting a blow . |
| 3 | Discarding pretence still further , she opened one of the drawers in the white chest of drawers , slamming it shut at once on the unfashionable baby clothes that Nannie had left in tidy small piles , washed and mended as though she had planned for them an after-life in which Nannie 's memory should have a lasting importance . |
| 4 | I see it 's been disconnected as though somebody was gon na take it . |
| 5 | The sting in her face had vanished as though wiped away with a magic cloth , and — stupidly — she found herself waiting to be kissed . |
| 6 | And as she met the dark gaze of Guido Falcone , her breath caught as though a fist had connected with her solar plexus . |
| 7 | The heather and the stumbling darkness were forgotten as though the sunrise had melted them . |
| 8 | She rose on to her knees and looked as though she was praying , but her eyes were fully open and the clenched look on her remarkably white face with its mannish black eyebrows suddenly reminded him of her dead mother . |
| 9 | Emma-Jane Mac , in marvellous form throughout the week , looked as though she might beat his time until Everest Oyster stopped at the penultimate fence . |
| 10 | The following morning the room looked as though an expedition had broken out in it , so we fought all the bits back into the sacs , smiled sweetly at the girl on reception and left . |
| 11 | At times it has looked as though the difficulties might have proved insurmountable , the strain too much . |
| 12 | Willis 's 5 for 42 clearly inspired Roberts , who in his first four overs sent back Steele , Hayes and Balderstone : Woolmer and Willey took the score to 80 before the former departed , and Willey and Greig then looked as though they might turn the match England 's way . |
| 13 | Boycott stayed over five hours for 70 but had no lengthy support , Botham holed out in the deep when his responsibility as captain was to put his head down , and England never looked as though they were going to make it . |
| 14 | Once again , Botham won the toss and chose to field as the pitch looked as though it would be most lively on the first morning , and for the second time his decision could not really be criticized . |
| 15 | In 1982 all these qualities looked as though they were going to be urgently required . |
| 16 | Freya 's letter looked as though she had written it in a great hurry : reams and reams of handwritten scrawl , with sentences crawling up the side of the page and ideas jumping all over the place . |
| 17 | Many of the pastures looked as though dandelions were being grown commercially , for they formed carpets of unbroken yellow . |
| 18 | The call had been made in good faith : a car had looked as though it might turn over , but in the event it had not . |
| 19 | The whole caboodle , heavy and cumbersome , looked as though it might be more at home in a grand hotel than a north London flat : precisely the image the manufacturer is trying to get across . |
| 20 | Curle stepped up and placed the penalty beyond Schmeichel and suddenly United looked as though they would be grateful for a point from a game they should have controlled — and won . |
| 21 | I suppose both of them were silent ; but I thought that O looked as though something was almost over , as if he was ending somehow . |
| 22 | The mist looked as though it had been created by the BBC special effects department for a studio play about Jack the Ripper , and yards away I could hear voices without being able to see the humans making the sound . |
| 23 | We had a 3.15 PM start , and we 'd only played one hole when the end of the world looked as though it had come and we had to shelter in the R&A tent . |
| 24 | Bernhard Langer really looked as though it could be his year with a 68 , and Sandy was three strokes off the lead . |
| 25 | At one point , when Janet had kissed Billy 's ear , the elder of the two brothers , Vic , had looked as though he was about to protest . |
| 26 | As the first rays of morning sunlight streamed through the open doorway , the newly-plastered room looked as though it had been covered in the night by a fine layer of pinkish-buff snow . |
| 27 | Suntanned now , he no longer looked as though he was dying of jaundice . |
| 28 | Two years ago Team Lotus looked as though it was about to disappear . |
| 29 | It flew well , however , the radio transmitter failed , this added to the mysterious contamination of the ground fuel supply , the actual Atlantic attempt looked as though it would be delayed . |
| 30 | His hair , by contrast , fell untidily to his shoulders and his patchy beard looked as though it had been stuck on at random . |