Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] as if he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He all but bumped into the couple , but , just in time , he arrested his progress , drew back , seemed , for an instant , to seek for oxygen as if he had emerged from some physical deep of ocean , looked about him at the mundane world he had re-entered and then , with rapid dignity , collected himself . |
| 2 | All the same , he had a feeling of guilt as if he had been accused of something in the middle of a bad dream and , waking , could not remember what it was . |
| 3 | He was aware of a slow feeling of triumph , a sense of release as if he had just won some physical competition ; without the fear there would n't have been this strange sense of excitement and content . |
| 4 | His tone as matter of fact as if he spoke of arrangements for a day 's shooting . |
| 5 | Grinning with surprise as if he had stumbled on to the This is Your Life set , his hand was pumped by Bill Wyman ( the Rolling Stone vote ) , Roland Butcher ( the cricketing vote ) , Gordon Banks ( the goalkeeping vote ) , Elaine Paige ( the musical vote ) , Patrick Moore ( the moon vote ) , Andrew Lloyd Webber ( the seriously rich vote ) and dozens more . |
| 6 | If you are at all normal , you bypass the urge to throttle him , or to shake him by the head and shout : ‘ What 's that got to do with anything ? ’ , and find yourself nodding in agreement as if he has just proved something . |
| 7 | In the lift at work doctors look right through Babur as if he did not exist . |
| 8 | The merest mention of the word ‘ sex ’ is more than sufficient for Old Cyclops to start straining against the trousers before jumping to attention as if he has been plugged into a battery-charger . |
| 9 | As they surrounded him , eyes red-rimmed and faces glistening from the heat of the flames , their whooping cries added to the pandemonium and it seemed to Owen as if he had already died and retribution for the sins of his life was about to be exacted by Satan 's minions . |
| 10 | Lorrimer had eaten practically nothing , had drunk less , pushing his glass almost petulantly aside and fixing his great smouldering eyes on Domenica as if he had never before seen a woman . |
| 11 | ‘ So , ’ he said quietly , and looked out to sea as if he understood she could n't bear his gaze just then . |
| 12 | Violet looked at Patrick as if he had gone mad . |
| 13 | He was looking at Pike as if he expected him to change shape , to flower into some awful creature . |
| 14 | Throgmorton glared angrily at Benjamin as if he recognised a rival . |
| 15 | But I do n't want you to fly off the handle , ’ he smiled at Annie as if he knew her temperament of old , ‘ or do anything rash . |
| 16 | He glanced sideways at Jehan as if he expected a comment . |