Example sentences of "[vb past] as [conj] i [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fear often played tricks with my perception and now it seemed as if I was losing my grip of reality . |
| 2 | It seemed as if I were speaking it … |
| 3 | ‘ I felt as if I was beginning to fade . ’ |
| 4 | I felt as if I was screaming and not making any noise . |
| 5 | These , however , have to co-exist next to real lulus like , ‘ Being a mole I felt as if I was living on burrowed time . ’ |
| 6 | At one point I felt as if I was drifting slowly across a huge , vivid moviescreen , so large I could n't see its edges . |
| 7 | It was fascinating , I felt as if I was learning about another world . |
| 8 | I felt as if I was taking part in history and the results were spectacular . |
| 9 | I just felt as if I was staring and staring at you and that at any minute you 'd disappear , like the ghost in Hamlet . |
| 10 | I wanted the silence to go on , but , as I listened , it felt as if I was racing it . |
| 11 | And when the great beast stopped to answer a call of nature , I felt as if I was sitting astride Mount Pinatubo . |
| 12 | I did as I was told and flopped down on a chair , but it gradually got worse and worse , and I felt as if I was going to be sick . |
| 13 | ‘ I felt as if I was going to see John . ’ |
| 14 | We headed out along the waterfront towards the port , but it felt as if I was treading water . |
| 15 | I felt as if I were moving just a beat faster than everyone else . |
| 16 | I felt as if I were drowning in sleep . |
| 17 | As nearly all the children had freckles , I felt as if I were seeing spots before my eyes , and drew Mickey Mice in a trance , my hand and pen moving mechanically through a misty ocean of freckles , wave upon wave , every freckle asking for Mickey Mouse . |
| 18 | There was no sandy beach , and as this part of the bay was an inlet , I felt as if I were standing beside a great lake , not the Atlantic Ocean . |
| 19 | I felt as if I were suffocating . |
| 20 | My feet almost disappeared in it ; it looked as if I were paddling in muddy water . |
| 21 | I looked as if I was reading the paper , but my mind was going over the events at Ingard House , and the curious discrepancy in the stories about Andrew Stavanger . |
| 22 | They Matt and me , that 's to say — were arguing about baptising the Indians , and at the point the raft capsized it looked as if I was winning the argument . |
| 23 | And it looked as if I was going to have to leave without that promised rarity . |
| 24 | Pulled in by the cops , having to rescue a naked vicar and now it looked as if I was going to have to talk down a paranoid lesbian . |
| 25 | ‘ I need to see Mr Patterson , ’ I said as if I was letting him in on a big secret . |