Example sentences of "[prep] [subord] he be [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eyes are fixed on hers as if he is trying to outstare her . |
| 2 | It looks as if he is going to hold Normandy . |
| 3 | In this case the instructor brings the aircraft to a stall and applies full rudder as if he is going to spin . |
| 4 | ‘ Tod Friendly , ’ Tod Friendly keeps grunting without opening his mouth , as if he 's trying to remember it , or learn it . |
| 5 | When Odilo has Herta on the bed , splayed and buckled , with her ankles on either side of the headboard , it 's as if he 's trying to kill something rather than create it . |
| 6 | It 's a romantic notion I know — but to me , with his system idling yet the brain activity so intense , I think it 's as if he 's trying to come to a decision . ’ |
| 7 | And Murphy himself often looks edgy , as if he 's trying to button his lip ( he seems happiest with the funny improvised boy 's talk routines ) . |
| 8 | And it looks as if he 's going to change the image of poodles for ever . |
| 9 | He pulls a face as if he 's going to piss in his pants . |
| 10 | One more story about O : he told me ( it was as if he was trying to explain the oddity of his lovemaking to me , as if he was trying to account for or apologise for the way he 'd treated me , or perhaps to reassure me concerning the effect he 'd had on me , I do n't know ) , in the morning he told me that there was one man , this had been just a couple of years previously , there was one man who had summoned him to his bedside to be counted amongst a farewell gathering of lovers , dear friends and great passions . |
| 11 | His mouth kept opening and shutting as if he was trying to say something . |
| 12 | Occasionally , as if he was trying to control it , he would exhale three times in succession , and the sound would be forced from his throat in rhythmic grunts : ‘ Aha aha aha ’ . |
| 13 | He did n't answer for a moment , and it seemed as if he was trying to control conflicting emotions . |
| 14 | One more story about O : he told me ( it was as if he was trying to explain the oddity of his lovemaking to me , as if he was trying to account for or apologise for the way he 'd treated me , or perhaps to reassure me concerning the effect he 'd had on me , I do n't know ) , in the morning he told me that there was one man , this had been just a couple of years previously , there was one man who had summoned him to his bedside to be counted amongst a farewell gathering of lovers , dear friends and great passions . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh Simon ! ’ he said , looking at my face as if he was trying to memorize it for some exam . |
| 16 | I was certain he did n't know I was following him , but he led me a pretty dance almost as if he was trying to lose me . |
| 17 | He pulled the duvet off the bed and tried to wrap it round her , but she reacted violently , as if he was trying to suffocate her . |
| 18 | The silence and the stare were alarming , and faintly comic , as if he was trying to hypnotize a bird . |
| 19 | Only Leila noticed Roirbak 's quick glance upwards , as if he was trying to peer through the ceiling . |
| 20 | He huddled up as if he was trying to roll himself into a ball . |
| 21 | Raising her unwilling eyes to his , she saw that he was looking down at her intently , his grey eyes shadowed , a slight twist to his lips , as if he was trying to read her face . |
| 22 | It was almost as if he was trying to hide . |
| 23 | Pansy looked at her as if he was trying to work out how to combine her with deuterium and to calculate the effects of the resulting explosion . |
| 24 | He wrinkled his nose , half closed his eyes , and then he surveyed Alexei as if he was trying to understand a bad joke . |
| 25 | His lovemaking was different this time , more intense , more assertive as if he was trying to exert some power over her . |
| 26 | as if he was trying to get rid of a whole cloud of false ideas I probably had about it . |
| 27 | ‘ What 's this , Sep ? ’ said Tom Tedder , coming in from his last class , and acting rather as if a load was now off his mind , or as if he was trying to conceal one . |
| 28 | She felt a change now , as if he was beginning to feel sorry for himself . |
| 29 | Even as his broken body had followed its spirit into the night woods , there had been something about him : his fingers flexed just so , as if signalling to her ; a frown on his face , as if he was struggling to turn his eyes to the woman by the fire ; a sparkle in those eyes , the dead eyes , the tears that said how he longed to stay . |
| 30 | He was droopy and small for his age and his joints stuck out at knees and wrists and elbows as if he was waiting to grow into them , like clothes . |