Example sentences of "as [conj] he [was/were] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as if he was just biding his time . |
| 2 | Mr. Mendez started to nod , very slowly , as if he was just understanding something . |
| 3 | A few days later , Charles thought fleetingly of the Superintendent 's little shock and the blackbird singing away as if he was just making a bad joke . |
| 4 | He stood for a moment , framed in the great gateway , and Fenella saw how the early morning light touched his dark hair and brought out red glints in it and saw , as well , that his eyes were shining , as if he was already looking ahead to the dangers and the adventures . |
| 5 | He sounded as if he was thoroughly disgusted by the whole business and she felt a pang of dismay . |
| 6 | While he had been talking the urgency of his hands on her body had increased , his thumbs moving up to softly circle the tips of her breasts , his eyes never leaving her face , as if he was carefully gauging her reaction . |
| 7 | Joe followed his mother into the room , and they stood looking at Martin , who had his back to the empty grate now and was staring at them as if he was n't seeing them . |
| 8 | He zipped his fly and was about to go when , and casually , as if he was half expecting it , in some sense he turned , and almost collided with the foreman , who was positioned , his weighty bulk to block the door , at the exit . |
| 9 | He felt as if he was about to take his first woman , and as he stood beneath the trees , watching her running towards him , Fergus felt himself trembling . |
| 10 | Indeed , Mafouz looked as if he was about to do something far more dramatic than simply catch the thing . |
| 11 | He looked as if he was about to say more when someone shouted his name . |
| 12 | His lips moved as if he was about to say something , but he had not formed the words when she interrupted him . |
| 13 | He looked as if he was about to say something else , then apparently thought better of it . |
| 14 | Donald stood just behind him , that place where you ca n't see someone unless you actually turn round , that place where it feels as if someone 's going to sink a pickaxe into the soft part of your skull , Donald stood behind him and took a deep breath , as if he was about to dive under a wave , and said , ‘ Those are my beans . ’ |
| 15 | He looked as if he was about to lose control . |
| 16 | He looked as if he was about to cry . |
| 17 | He looked as if he was about to start sweeping the Common . |
| 18 | Tammuz looked as if he was about to make a cutting response but then actually took note of Zambia 's expression . |
| 19 | The maths master looked as if he was about to have another revelation . |
| 20 | At the point where in her first aria the prima donna expected from him an angry gesture , he exaggerated his anger so much that he looked as if he was about to box her ears and strike her on the nose with his fist . |
| 21 | For a second he looked as if he was about to grab her and shake her to pieces , but her wild looks and her uncontrolled temper suddenly had his lips quirking . |
| 22 | The watchman looked as if he was about to burst into tears . |
| 23 | The shock jarred every bone in his body and he felt as if he was about to pass out . |
| 24 | Like when a drunken Richard Burton nodded off in the middle of a question ; the time Warren Beatty kept him waiting for an hour-and-a-half … and the day Robert Raging Bull De Niro looked as if he was about to punch him on the nose . |
| 25 | Roman looked as if he was about to pounce ; she cringed back in her chair , and he frowned . |
| 26 | This was a trick question , because of course no one does anything like that to themselves ; both of Boy 's eyes were as black and blue as if he was still wearing yesterday 's makeup . |
| 27 | But he looks as if he was still left with a shooting chance . |
| 28 | He looked at me as if he was now wondering quite what it was he had invited into his home . |
| 29 | It looks as if he was initially working not from a completed score but from a sketch , and simply making sure that enough space was left for the movement before the copyist took over for the next one . |
| 30 | It was as if he was deliberately stringing it out . ’ |