Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [noun] [prep] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Pike , or Pike 's body anyway , fiopped all over Quigley as if the two of them had just been exchanging bodily fiuids . |
| 2 | Dana 's shrill voice made Claudia jump away from Roman as if she were guilty of something , but Roman had only been about to say he had asked Dana to model for him in order to get to know her better . |
| 3 | Outside , Goldman was looking down at Schmidt as if he were standing on a cliff 's edge and peering at the drop . |
| 4 | Philippa was laughing in the perimeter of shadow that surrounded the light and Lee felt oddly stable looking down at Larry as if she were surveying an actor from the height and comfort of the gallery . |
| 5 | I do n't like dressing up for sex as if it 's a performance . |
| 6 | In the lift at work doctors look right through Babur as if he did not exist . |
| 7 | Sister turned back to Jack as if Tina did n't exist . |
| 8 | Guy found his gaze moving slowly over Isabel as if her body held the answers to the questions in his mind . |
| 9 | We turn up to funerals in everyday clothes , we refuse to let people send flowers so there is no opportunity for a communal expression of feeling , we are reluctant to take more than one day off work on the grounds that we 're better getting on with life as if weeping and mourning had no part in real life . |
| 10 | Then she glanced down at Lee as if she thought Lee might take it as a remark against her . |
| 11 | He grinned wickedly at Lucie as if to say , ‘ There now . |
| 12 | He glanced sideways at Jehan as if he expected a comment . |
| 13 | He remembered the vivid sunsets of his boyhood and the way the sun would hang like a crimson ball above the edge of the trees surrounding their house and then plunge out of sight as if it had been dropped in a moment of carelessness . |
| 14 | He got out of bed and walked across to Jackie as if he were about to say something . |
| 15 | It was brown , as far as Hoomey could see , and its ribs stuck out like his own , and its great projecting hip-bones were on a level with his head , sticking out like girders as if to hold the gaunt body together . |
| 16 | If the expatriate and family are expected to find their own accommodation , information should be given on the types of properties available for rent , how much these are likely to cost together with information on whether they are furnished or unfurnished . |
| 17 | And of course another very clear example of the overlap between domestic concerns and international concerns is Maastricht and the great debate that 's gone on in Britain about whether or not we should have agreed to the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh , ’ Nellie said , glancing quickly at Carrie as if to signal that her father was being secretive about his work again . |
| 19 | The empath looked up at Fox as if for help , genuinely puzzled as to how to express his feeling in words . |
| 20 | ‘ So , ’ he said quietly , and looked out to sea as if he understood she could n't bear his gaze just then . |
| 21 | I ca n't stand going in a , you see , that 's one of things I would never go out to dos for cos I |
| 22 | ‘ Perhaps you should meet him , ’ Berdichev added hastily , glancing across at Douglas as if for confirmation . |
| 23 | Blaney did n't reply , but stared hard at Dalgliesh as if assessing the sincerity of that simple statement , and then said curtly , ‘ Thank you for helping the children , ’ and lifted his son from Dalgliesh 's shoulder . |
| 24 | Judgements made in the course of a lecture will be taken down in notes as if they were facts , whereas it is in the nature of critical judgements that they can not be taken over by others ; it is on this dilemma , I believe , that Leavisism ultimately foundered . |
| 25 | Quick as a flash the doctor had cut the cord , passed the child to Matilda Jenkins , and was stitching away at Sarah as if his own life depended on it . |
| 26 | By now I knew the identity of this Mr Proust , who cropped up in conversations as if he were a much-revered bachelor uncle . |
| 27 | Throgmorton glared angrily at Benjamin as if he recognised a rival . |
| 28 | Wolsey played with the gold pendant around his neck and smirked patronisingly at Agrippa as if he was a favourite son . |