He asked me, his voice a slightly high-pitched whine, as though he had never progressed from childhood. |
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It seemed as though her body was dissolving, and as the potency rose, that her mind was whirling, spinning free of her. |
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He still looked as though he'd been lashed by a whip, and he was sitting motionless behind the front desk. |
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The Aborigine stared after them as though he were being left behind by two old friends. |
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The common law provides a general remedy against companies seeking to pass off counterfeit products as though they were the real thing. |
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Why are the boy's eyes glowing red as though he'd been satanically possessed in a cheap straight-to-video horror flick? |
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The pages were a beige color from aging and the black cover surrounding it was very soft as though it was handled a great deal. |
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It looks as though the food given the detainees at Guantanamo is wholesome, nutritious and appealing. |
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In the morning he'd looked as though he were ready to drop down dead while I felt oddly refreshed. |
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He talked readily and, as though he sensed my nervousness at making contact with him, he did his best to put me at my ease. |
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And he even opened his arms wide in such a moving gesture, as though he were ready to abandon himself to his fate. |
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Her black hair went down to her shoulders and looked as though she had her own person stylist come in and do it every morning. |
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It was as though she had two personalities, and when the beast reared its ugly head, it meant a very, very long night. |
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The body itself can be handled and manipulated as though lacking in the capacity for self-propulsion. |
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The color alternations intensify at various moments, as though attempting to overwhelm the viewer's sensorial apparatus. |
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I took one last fortifying breath, then turned the Keystone as though I were winding a clock. |
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There seems to be an air of unreality, as though the war were a million miles away. |
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His eyes were red, but his behavior was perfectly normal, as though it were just an ordinary day. |
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His voice was clear and pronounced, as though he were used to reading such things aloud. |
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But Himalaya is the received pronunciation, certainly in the UK, so I didn't want to sound as though I was being too clever. |
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In several, the blonde-helmeted, recumbent figure turns as though to meet the viewer's gaze. |
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The girl's eyelids flinched, as though she was dreaming, and she tensed up momentarily before relaxing and falling into a true sleep. |
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A great gasp went up as the ship listed heavily, and looked as though she would heel over completely. |
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It would be impossible simply to reinhabit the old structures as though nothing had happened. |
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I remember the sound recordings of the shots and the crowd panic on an RTE radio news bulletin as clearly as though it were yesterday. |
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The hastily lowered ladder leaned at the back, looking as though it would come crashing down at any moment. |
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The words sounded rehearsed as though he had spoken them to himself too many times to count. |
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Thousands of sheets of white, letter-size paper carpeted the gallery floor, as though deposited by an exploding Xerox machine. |
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My mad noisy neighbour regularly stands in her kitchen hailing her grandaughter as though she's already moved to Australia. |
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He told me all about your lovely black curls and blue eyes, speaking of you as though you were an angel. |
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She touched Dana's face, but no emotion registered in her eyes, as though she was not concerned about her daughter. |
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There was no emotion on his face, and his gaze seemed pretty blank as he regarded it, as though waiting for something to happen. |
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The rill was a parched ravine now, as though some convulsion of the earth had bled the region dry of its lifeblood. |
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Suddenly it seemed as though the whole world realized there had passed a man whose like it might never see again. |
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In truth, a great many of the aphorists sound as though they sweated too hard to come up with their punchlines. |
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I've got such energy and lightness of spirit that I feel as though I've been reborn. |
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Readers may think I am wrong, but morally we must behave as though I was right. |
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The clouds race to form and re-form across the blue sky, as though captured in stop-motion photography. |
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The Captain looked as though he wished the first mate was lying lifeless on the floor with the dead men. |
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Clydebank looked as though they had done enough for another valuable point, but they reckoned without the alertness of Alan Neil. |
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And, in some winter scenes, the landscapes lie still and silent as though waiting for the ice and snow to melt. |
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You apply the aids for a left lead canter and the horse just keeps walking along as though nothing changed at all. |
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You've been treating me with such kindness and I've walked all over you as though you were mud. |
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She gazes toward, but beyond the viewer with a slightly wan and wistful smile, as though she has a secret somewhere deep inside. |
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I turned the photograph and looked at it, as though it might have changed through some process of mischief or alchemy. |
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Crab braised in rice wine in a sauce thickened with more albumen tasted as though it had been cooked in sea water. |
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Worst of all, lyric theory veers toward metaphysics as though tugged by a gravitational force. |
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The Good Body treats eating disorders as though they are temporary, adolescent phases but anorexia and bulimia can be fatal diseases. |
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Joe turned and glared at the stranger as though he too was angry with his voice. |
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Players and staff were sacked, and for weeks it looked as though Dundee would close. |
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As we descended, my behind bounced off each log we passed, as though I were a piece of laundry being scrubbed on a washboard. |
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With this ascent, a climb I had done many a time before, I felt as though I were awakening every muscle in my body! |
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For most of the opening half things looked as though they would go exactly according to plan. |
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Having seen the picture in question, it would certainly seem as though the shape is that of a skull. |
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He has red hair, shouts incessantly and moves as though a colony of ants has invaded his tracksuit trousers. |
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In desperation, she tried to force her unwilling feet to move, but it was as though she were mired in quicksand. |
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Johnny waved the question aside with a graceful sweep of his hand, as though all was forgiven. |
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Louise moves to the opening of the lounge, in stiff jerky movements as though hampered by the knitting of broken bones. |
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She stood up and began to pace up and down, jerkily, as though her muscles hadn't been used for a long time. |
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By the way, have you ever noticed that doctors in hospitals tend to talk about you to their medical students as though you don't even exist? |
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Petr picked up a coloured fish early in the day, an eleven pounder that fought as though jet-propelled. |
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The cat cocked its head slightly to the left, as though assessing the fairness of his words. |
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Mr. Erickson-Moore stood behind me and wrenched the leaf-pole from my weak grip, breaking it in half over his knee as though it were a mere twig. |
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He did not consider the noise of the fan to be excessive and it did not sound to him as though there were a worn bearing. |
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They have warmth and a slightly quizzical expression, as though she would like to answer my unspoken questions. |
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It might seem as though a quota that limited imports to 50 percent of their pre-quota level would accomplish the same thing. |
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Quin looked as though he might retort with some snide remark he was sure to regret, so Drake interrupted. |
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What is even more outrageous is that Gannon still acts as though he did nothing wrong. |
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The image looks blurry, and the image jitters unnaturally sometimes as though pan and scan is in effect. |
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I then suggested that perhaps all they needed was a nice cup of coffee or a half of shandy and they looked at me as though I were a paedophile. |
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As we eat, a nearby market closes up and the local street-sweeping team goes into action as though they are finishing up for the Glasgow Fair. |
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Despite the heavy clothing that was weighing me down, I felt light, as though a stone had been lifted off my heart. |
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Some of these drivers look as though they need to retake their driving test. |
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And Jane felt as though a million bricks had been lifted off her shoulders. |
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The audience was often tricked by cadences that felt as though they should lead into the famous adagio. |
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She smiled uneasily at her friend who looked very much as though she cared not a jot for her record. |
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After we'd exchanged numbers and addresses, Marty looked as though he was about to explode. |
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Instead, for about two days it just looked as though I'd put on a bit of weight around the jowls. |
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He wore ragged trousers and a grubby torn shirt that was far too big for him and looked as though it was a type of tent. |
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Stepping into the clearing, Erik seemed to grow stronger again, as though his confidence and courage had been restored like never before. |
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He looked as though he'd put a few drinks away, and his red nose suggested that that wasn't unusual for him. |
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But the judder is always there, as though we were watching the film from the bed of a pickup truck traveling on a gravel road. |
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He records and names these places as though entrusted with an essential job. |
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For another, it stigmatizes, as it regards the mentally ill as though they were criminals. |
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A moment later, she heard a thudding noise that sounded as though the train wheels had jumped the track and were now riding on the wooden ties. |
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No, I didn't want to see the players larking around as though they didn't have a care in the world, but I don't think that's unreasonable. |
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To do this one, stand with your arms out and your feet apart as though you were doing a jumping jack. |
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He presents it as though he's pulling the wool over our eyes, only we are all too stupid to notice. |
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A far darker self-portrait renders the artist in profile, his head tipped as though to study a mass of papers or a book held in his hands. |
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It appeared as though their singing paved the way for the last lap of her earthly journey. |
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There are times when although there are no absolute values you simply have to act as though there are. |
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They may it look as though it is a charitable collection when in fact they are going to sell the stuff off. |
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It looks as though it was made at a particular time when in fact it was made 24 hours later. |
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I headed back to the Commons but, when I arrived, my colleagues viewed my rantings as though I'd drunk considerably more than a pint. |
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They heard one last ear-piercing shriek and then the sound of the wolf whimpering as though it had been hurt. |
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Hartson can leather the ball goalwards as though he means to kill it one minute, and then gently cushion it into the path of a teammate the next as though handing over a baby. |
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Certain letters and words may look as though they are bunched together. |
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And yet the game did not quite make you feel as though you were authoring your own history, as previous Civilization games had. |
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But even he did not go so far as to talk about the Wife of bath as though she were flesh and blood. |
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One was through his bicep, and the other on his triceps, and it looked as though the bullet went straight through. |
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Steck crumpled to the moraine, and it looked as though he'd be bludgeoned to death. |
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Some days, she felt as though glaciers were buckling around her and a crevasse yawned beneath her. |
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Doctors may be feeling as though they were left holding the bag. |
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The player who makes seven or more tricks scores as though they had played a contract of 1NT, and gets an additional premium of 100 above the line. |
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While I'm perfectly fine with nudity and crassness, sometimes it felt as though shots were composed to test the limits of what could pass the censors. |
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He feels as though he is accepted in this community, he belongs. |
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Maria began to laugh jovially, as though this was all just a jape. |
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Cathy was bent over the broken water pipe, as though she was trying to bend it or stop it up, but it kept rushing out, through her fingers, towards Josie. |
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He made decisions about funding feeling as though he were slicing up a cake that had already been cut and moving the wedges around without making a blind bit of difference. |
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He felt as though he were drifting weightlessly through an endless tunnel. |
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The detonations collapsed the three-storey house in on itself, leaving a ragged hole in the street's facade, as though a tooth had been torn from a smile. |
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It looked as though it might affect him, but he said it did not and in practice on Monday he had holed in one on the 16th, admittedly with his third attempt. |
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He may not have been working the cones, but it looked as though his underlings were. |
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If it sounds as though Scott is a consummate politician, skilled at avoiding controversy, think again. |
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With dying lawns in the south and new plants extending their ranges northwards it sounds as though our gardens will be looking rather different in years to come. |
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Support for RDF is basic rather than strict, so nearly all the URIs and URLs can be made up on the spot, as though they were variables or constants. |
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My tutor, however, reassures me the worst that can happen is I get pulled down a grade, or get my paper marked as though I only answered two out of three questions. |
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The volume of writing is enormous, these days, and much of it has a sort of windiness about it, almost as though the author were in a state of euphoria. |
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At one moment, he walks forward jauntily, as though walking onto a dance floor, at another he lifts one leg, then another. |
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He gestured to Straeger, who was looking so disdainfully at her that Voelker could feel the withering contempt radiating from him as though he were telepathic himself. |
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Of course these are derivative, too, almost as though Serra were his own pupil, or a forger of his own pieces. |
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It was fun if a little light, as though she couldn't be bothered finishing it so she just wrapped it up quickly and then summarised subsequent events in the epilogue. |
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A couple lockers down was a boy, about 5'5, with scruffy brown hair, wearing rumpled blue jeans and a wrinkly white t-shirt, looking as though he'd just fallen out of bed. |
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The roughnecks and hooligans have gone and instead families on a Saturday night dine alfresco on the broad shrub-lined pavements as though they were in Paris. |
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So it looks as though internalist justifications are like irritatingly persistent children in that they give rise to an unending regress of reasons for reasons. |
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She spends a long paragraph patiently explaining, as though to a first-year student at Columbia J-School, that it's perfectly acceptable to use Xeroxes in a news story. |
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However, over two furlongs out it looked as though Pat Eddery had the four-year-old in trouble as he was boxed in behind early leader Zaajer, seemingly with nowhere to go. |
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What it did do was drag him down, as though my shot had dropped him into the dunk tank at the state fair. |
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It is as though the written Amharic language, here mixed with other semiotic systems, becomes a mirror for the layered and amalgamated nature of oral language in exile. |
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It is part technical consultation and part writing and analyzing characters as though they were patients and suggesting psychologically accurate storylines for them to follow. |
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Although I would never actually utter any of these words, to me it seems as though my conversation is peppered with lawks and lumme and strike a light. |
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It was done in silhouette behind a white screen, and the angles of refraction made it look as though Fafner really was a giant in relation to Siegfried. |
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It also meant that every sequence in the film could be shot on location, without the need to make the scenes inside the cab look as though they are fake. |
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She stands strong and dignified, with her sinewy and angularly carved face turning slightly away as though just having taken another unavoidable look at a painful past. |
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But it seemed he was resurrected, as though he were never dead. |
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After the second set, it looked as though Agassi had had his chips. |
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The Sun, with all those planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the Universe to do. |
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The early part of the 1990s, when monarchism dared not speak its name and supporters of the Crown felt as though they were a beleaguered minority, seems like a bygone age. |
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A grid of rhomboid forms, like windows in a high-rise, tilts and careens to the upper right of the 12-foot expanse of Lost Highway, as though rushing away. |
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Section by section it has ruptured as though it were a pyric San Andreas fault line. |
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The yuccas give the refuge an otherworldly, Seussian air, as though the Lorax might hop out at any moment. |
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And Kaszaat let out a shriek of pure anger, bursting forwards suddenly, flinging her hand up towards Drephos as though in salute. |
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Smith's analysis atomistically, as though his ultimate opinion was independently supported by each. |
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It is as though poetry teases her mercilessly for the intricate reflexiveness of her dealings. |
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The killer T cell creates a picture of shooting or bombing, and people begin to use it as though that is the reality. |
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I repotted the eucomis into new compost and now the new flower spikes look as though they're about ready for take off. |
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Plaintiff John Gutfreund repeats and realleges each of the allegations of paragraphs 1 to 21 above, as though fully set forth herein. |
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Then, as though he could hurry the trains East, he put a special delivery stamp on it. |
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Kalanchoe marnierana is so loaded with salmon pink bells in spring that they look as though they might jingle noisily. |
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With their retro vintage vibe, the pair of them look as though they might start jitterbugging at any minute. |
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A King and Queen of Clubs rubbed backs as though each were a bear scratching its back on a tree. |
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Hence that alien grin, which looked as though a coat-hanger had been put in your mouth and Colorado's biggest cactus rammed up your jacksy. |
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Musso then passed Collins and, only briefly, it looked as though there might be a Ferrari grand slam. |
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Hours later, it appears as though Miller may have violated both by testing positive for both amphetamines and marijuana. |
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I've lived in Edinburgh for 15 years so it isn't as though Yahs are new to me. |
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George Jessel... is still shooting his mouth off as though nothing mattered except his own gift for wise-cracks. |
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She yapped and yarred and ran in foolish circles, as though quarrelling with her own tail. |
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With a wrench, which threw his victim back upon the bed as though hurled from a height, he turned and sprang at us. |
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The mare and her foals, as though executing a spirited folk dance, pranced with loud whickerings among the guests. |
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At the very least, it looked as though the Broncos would have the chance to kick a makable field goal. |
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The old chap did not look as though he could push his way out of a paper bag. |
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A once-over with the vertical mower and the site looked as though a football scrimmage had been held on it. |
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She turns to lift her robe, and lays it across her as though she were revealing her shame, as though she were naked. |
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The house looked as though it had been long untenanted. The windows were encrusted with dust, and the shutters were up. |
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The house is pale as though its life-blood were sucked and the Cabots reduced to unbeings. |
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Gov. Calzada made it seem as though the drug lord were captured alone. |
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No one ever understands Luella's impact. It is as though she sucks all the air out of a room. |
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Although it was constructed of iron, it was torn down by the force of the water, and bent about as though it were only a piece of pasteboard. |
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As this book was supposedly based on information supplied by the children themselves, Ransome drew the pictures as though done by the characters. |
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The bull got up but lollygagged around as though he wasn't too anxious to swim. |
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Ahead of us to-night is a stiffish incline and it looks as though there might be pressure behind it. |
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Bob was wheeling the baby up and down, Mabel watching him, hawk-eyed, as though she suspected him of harboring intentions of tipping the cab over. |
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With a background like mine, I don't want to cast doubts on the family line, but she looks as though there's something more than Jack Russell in there. |
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It was rather as though, after being in makeshift wet dock for days, the Queen Mary had just sailed out of, say, Walden Pond, as suddenly and perversely as she had sailed in. |
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The time-honored way was to use self as though it were a little man-inside-the-man who ordered all activities so that they pretty well suited his imperial selfship. |
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He wanged them across the room, and Billy caught them flying over his head, then held them up for inspection as though he was contemplating buying. |
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Leckey pushed and one felt as though the blocklike figures pushed back. |
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I would lay in bed for a few hours playing games on my Sega, getting totally absorbed in it as though it were all real and then I would sleep for the rest of the day. |
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It sounds as though your plants may need a bit of reinvigoration. |
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We go on, with a motion so soporific, so dreamlike as to be uninferant of progress, as though time and not space were decreasing between us and it. |
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Think they their sleights are not already perceived, and that they can walk now unespied, as though they had Gyges' ring, to go invisibly by, upon their finger? |
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She felt as though his departure for Europe was saving her by the bell. |
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In the shape of a wedge with a leader at the point of it, they were running with a definite purpose and as though all the dogs in sheepdom were heeling them. |
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It was as though she wore a mask made from toadskins. Her clothes were crocodile skin the color of old tobacco, and she carried a staff of twisted driftwood. |
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She kept low, clutching the rifle she'd taken as though it were a magic talisman, as if it would somehow protect her even though she didn't fire it. |
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So it sounds as though he tunes into the late-night arty-farty show. |
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Unheeding the conductor's warning glare, Mr. Devine straphung, smiling, his lips forming soundless phrases as though he enjoyed a delightful, inaudible conversation. |
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A joke merely affected her with silent convulsive twitchings, as though the risible faculties struggled somewhere within her but could not bring the laugh to birth. |
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Many years ago I had an episode that was so bad, the depression was so thick, I couldn't even move my hands and my face locked almost as though I had Bell's palsy. |
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