Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] as if she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Puente Ruinas she lost her glasses and we all searched for them as if she had been our lifelong friend . |
| 2 | The bounce went out of her as if she had burst . |
| 3 | When he went to look at Anna before going to school her eyes were once more as blue as the sky , and she curled her fingers round his as if she did n't want to let him go . |
| 4 | She snatched her hand away from his as if she feared he might contaminate her and stalked ahead of him , not trusting herself to speak until they were inside her apartment . |
| 5 | Benedicta , cooler and more composed , was listening attentively to some story the nobleman was telling her , though now and again moving slightly away from him as if she had come to resent the young gallant 's attentions . |
| 6 | Luke 's arms came round her as if she had summoned him by saying his name , and she could n't continue . |
| 7 | ‘ But clear that shit up , first , ’ he said , nodding toward her fallen tray and its spillage , and then he swung his chairback around to her as if she 'd ceased to exist . |
| 8 | They stared at her as if she 'd turned into a circus freak . |
| 9 | Her prosecutor was looking at her as if she 'd just crawled from under a stone . |
| 10 | Nicolo looked at her as if she 'd lost her mind . |
| 11 | Nicolo stared at her as if she 'd gone mad . |
| 12 | She was n't saying anything , but Ma smiled at her as if she had done something very clever . |
| 13 | This trick took hours of practice , up and down the landing at the hostel while the other girls looked at her as if she had taken leave of her senses . |
| 14 | She had just had the most beautiful experience of her whole life and Roman was looking at her as if she had cheated him . |
| 15 | Luke was still staring at her as if she had gone mad . |
| 16 | Mitch glared at her as if she had ordered him back all by herself . |
| 17 | Her husband , suffering in his own quite different way , looked at her as if she had gone crazy . |
| 18 | Travis stared at her as if she had indeed gone crazy . |
| 19 | Benny had stared at him as if she had never seen him before . |
| 20 | She looked at him as if she had barely heard him . |
| 21 | She 'd offered to lend him the money to have the bike fixed , and when he accepted she said , ‘ I 've broken something precious , have n't I ? ’ and knelt in the street among the bits of glass , looking up at him as if she understood it was more than a lamp she had smashed . |
| 22 | She scraped her chair away from her desk and stared at it as if she expected the spider to jump through the lid . |
| 23 | Looking around her as if she thought someone was going to run out of the field behind her and save her , she saw that the man was much nearer . |
| 24 | Josie 's hand slid from around her as if she 'd been holding nothing more substantial than a wisp of smoke . |