Example sentences of "as [conj] he [vb past] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Beside him Gosse looked down , as if he had already seen where this led . |
| 2 | Finn still treated her gently , if absently , kissing her goodnight ; but as if he had already said good-bye to her , somewhere else . |
| 3 | She had declared that Edwin must henceforward run the Ashwell estates , as if he had already come into his inheritance . |
| 4 | Another of this weekend 's conventional theses , which was anticipated here , was that of Kinnockian hubris — the possibility that voters went off Mr Kinnock for carrying on as if he had already won . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He sounded far away , as if he had partially covered the mouthpiece with his hand . |
| 7 | Instantly , as if he had somehow thrown an electrical switch , she felt a surge of responsive excitement — so strong and so unexpected that she trembled involuntarily in his embrace . |
| 8 | Wishart was waiting for him , sitting behind his long , polished table almost as if he had not moved since Corbett saw him last . |
| 9 | I saw a man drinking avidly from a green scum-covered marsh , where lay , his black face downward in the water , a dead man lying on his stomach and swollen as if he had not stopped filling himself with water for days … |
| 10 | He had played so extraordinarily fair with her the night before , he reflected , contentedly , that it was as if he had not played at all . |
| 11 | ‘ Most of our gear has been lost , and all your horses , ’ Finnan went on as if he had not heard him . |
| 12 | He was grim-faced and looked as if he had not slept , but he offered them freshly made coffee and raised a smile for Catherine . |
| 13 | Paul saw this as a reproach to himself , as if he had not shown enough interest ; perhaps in fact he had not ; his heart had never been in it . |
| 14 | Her husband , poor man , often left her ‘ as if he had not known her , and left her alone amongst them , choose how she might ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ But I could n't do it , ’ she continued , as if he had not spoken . |
| 16 | And here they were , nearly twenty-odd children , gaping back at him as if he had just asked them to run through the periodic table . |
| 17 | He stopped at the foot of the stairs as if he had just escorted her there and was off somewhere else . |
| 18 | There he stood leaning against it , his arms outspread , one cheek pressed on to the black wood , with his breath coming in gasps , as if he had just surfaced from drowning . |
| 19 | So many times she had felt as if he had just steamrollered his way right over her , refusing to listen to her arguments , just using his overpowering physical and mental strength to get his own way . |
| 20 | He was gazing forwards and he looked as if he had just stepped on a drawing-pin . |
| 21 | He looked as if he had just stepped out of a drawing room in the shires . |
| 22 | Of similar vintage I can recall Billy Lane turning up for an open match on the Swadlincote waters , looking as if he had just stepped out of a time warp . |
| 23 | He looked as if he had just stepped straight out of one of those bespoke tailors in Saville Row in London 's West End . |
| 24 | He cocked his head to one side as if he had just realised something awful . |
| 25 | He felt as if he had just run fifty yards , rather quickly . |
| 26 | He sat back , breathing deeply , taking in the elegance of the shapes the boy had made , recollecting the startling originality of the boy 's strategies — as if he had just re-invented the game . |
| 27 | He was beginning to feel as if he had just switched roller-coasters — from one set of emotional turmoil to another . |
| 28 | He looked across at me with watery , beseeching eyes as if he had just told me the entire , intolerable story of his life . |
| 29 | There was , anyway , an atmosphere in this shop , an unpleasant feeling , as if he had just walked through a gateway into a world parallel to our own , where huge and unpleasant moral choices are offered , fought over and discussed . |
| 30 | 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 . |