Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [conj] [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looks to me as if we 've forgotten how to retreat . |
| 2 | He looked at me as if I 'd crawled out from under the Axminster . |
| 3 | ‘ Cretin ’ , he glared at me as if I 'd said it . |
| 4 | ( He gawped at me as if I 'd told him to swim the Atlantic . ) |
| 5 | Tessa looked at me as if I had said something odd . |
| 6 | He looked at me as if I had trodden in something on the way in . |
| 7 | One of them kisses me as if I had won a prize for the most amusing and far-fetched story of the evening . |
| 8 | At Ångelholm , we were joined by two more people , a grim-looking older woman all in black , who looked as if she had n't smiled since 1937 and who spent the entire journey watching me as if she had seen my face on a wanted poster , and by a fastidious older man who I guessed to be a recently retired schoolmaster and took an instant dislike to . |
| 9 | Everyone , including the Indians , seemed to be happy and laughing , and in my surly mood I unkindly wished them all in hell — chiefly because no one was in any hurry to serve me and I had to sit and watch a party at the next table consume a feast that looked to me as if it had issued straight from Nirvana , before I was even shown a menu . |
| 10 | Old Joseph was glad he kept the Christmas cards from his son and daughter in 1987 , for every year since then he has taken them out and displayed them as if they had come in with the post . |
| 11 | A very new officer ( judged by the colour of his drill shorts , which had a yellow rookie look about them as if they had come straight out of Millett 's window ) appeared in his drill which was never meant for him ; it was meant for a much larger person . |
| 12 | In fact Major Wiseman 's letter preserves an inaccurate memory — not surprising after so long — of the actual circumstances , for it conflates the events of twelve days and relates them as if they had happened on the same night . |
| 13 | There is a frisson between them as if they have discovered a game of role-playing which both find sexually stimulating . |
| 14 | What do I need them for when I 've got my little Angel Gabriel , eh ? ’ |
| 15 | People look at you as if you 'd said you had plague . |
| 16 | I 've been on to this morning , asked me to and they have got thirty palettes there at the moment . |
| 17 | When Melinda answered him in fluent Arabic , they all looked at her as if they had seen a ghost , bade us goodnight , and melted away into the darkness again . |
| 18 | ‘ What ? ’ he said mock-innocently and drew away from her as if nothing had happened . |
| 19 | Nicolo stared at her as if she 'd gone mad . |
| 20 | Nicolo looked at her as if she 'd lost her mind . |
| 21 | They stared at her as if she 'd turned into a circus freak . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | Luke was still staring at her as if she had gone mad . |
| 24 | Her husband , suffering in his own quite different way , looked at her as if she had gone crazy . |
| 25 | The bounce went out of her as if she had burst . |
| 26 | She had just had the most beautiful experience of her whole life and Roman was looking at her as if she had cheated him . |
| 27 | She was n't saying anything , but Ma smiled at her as if she had done something very clever . |
| 28 | Luke 's arms came round her as if she had summoned him by saying his name , and she could n't continue . |
| 29 | Mitch glared at her as if she had ordered him back all by herself . |
| 30 | 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 . |