Example sentences of "[adv prt] as [subord] [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it is this bicameral quality in the American mind that lets the citizen read of the all-out official ‘ war on drugs ’ and ‘ war on terrorism ’ on one page , and then turn the page and read of the CIA sharing a bank with Miami cartels and Abu Nidal , and still go on as if he inhabited a ‘ normal world ’ . |
| 2 | I , I need it to help me to get to Hanley or something like that and , and he does this all the time , and I look at him and I think well you know fancy being like that , surely we 're in a welfare state , there 's no need for that , I do n't know what his circumstances are , he may be homeless , I do n't know where he comes from and he just appears there and he carries on as if he loves the job , and that 's only in this country , but if you go abroad , many of you have been abroad have n't you ? |
| 3 | She was going on as if she loved the fucking man , not just the fucking ! |
| 4 | FitzAlan turned on her , flinging her off as if she carried the plague . |
| 5 | She held her hands out as if she held a sub-machine-gun and went ‘ Rat-tat-tat-ta . ’ |
| 6 | and walked around as if we owned the place . |
| 7 | How I was brought up , but a no one 's ever called me pompous I mean , the way walks around as if he owns the place , I think it 's really funny ! |
| 8 | They were just wandering about as if they owned the place . ’ |