Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] as if [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roman dropped his arm from her shoulders , faced her as if he 'd just returned , mentally , from some distant place . |
| 2 | Every room in the house contained some form of Bible and I took up a large ancient looking one and opened it as if it had been a door into a cave . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Down in the hold he 'd cracked his shins on the bumper of a small green car and she 'd laughed at his face and kissed him as if he 'd been a kid and for a moment he was thirteen and being hugged by Dave 's big sister , who was certainly large and confusing to thirteen year olds . |
| 5 | Bad enough to feel the way she did , let alone have to spend time with a man who treated her as if she 'd just crawled from under a stone . |
| 6 | Cecilia turned the pages of her address book , she turned them slowly , she scrutinized them as if they fascinated her . |
| 7 | He pulled me to my feet , and flung his arms around me and squeezed me as if he wanted to gather me right into himself , never let me go , and we stayed like that for a long time , not speaking , rocking to and fro . |
| 8 | His dark eyes met hers as if he felt her surreptitious appraisal , and she found herself at the receiving end of that long , sardonic smile . |
| 9 | Her friend greeted her as if she had never been away , so the guilt evaporated and she began to talk about Nicky . |
| 10 | I just said it as if I 'd known it all along . |
| 11 | Rose said it as if she did not realize what a strange but interesting thing she had said . |
| 12 | At the hotel , Salah greeted us as if we had returned from the dead , pumping our hands and laughing , " Crazy English , crazy English . " |