Example sentences of "as [conj] he be [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you put someone on a second floor balcony , for instance , to deliver an address , it looks as if he is simply haranguing his listeners . |
| 2 | When Disllokey nods to me this morning it is with a distant seriousness , as if he is already bracing himself to lose his identity in the harshly impersonal world across the water . |
| 3 | But he always leaves it as if he is n't expecting to come back in the morning . " |
| 4 | He looks as if he is about to burst into tears . |
| 5 | He smokes at it as if he 's just a-digging ’ in his own garden ! ’ |
| 6 | Now , with the Hollywood movie Not Without My Daughter , in which he stars opposite Sally Field , due out later this year , it looks as if he 's finally set for international fame . |
| 7 | ‘ He does n't look as if he 's ever seen hounds before ! |
| 8 | It 's not as if he 's ever seen either of us , or is ever likely to again , ’ Cara hissed , as one or two people turned to look at them . |
| 9 | This child had been asked to look at his foot carefully ‘ as if he 's never seen it before ’ . |
| 10 | He looks as if he 's always having dreams . |
| 11 | Sometimes it 's as if he 's constantly rejecting the first idea that comes into his mind , and plays the second instead . |
| 12 | He looks as if he 's about to come under starter 's orders at Epsom ! |
| 13 | It was as if he was just biding his time . |
| 14 | Mr. Mendez started to nod , very slowly , as if he was just understanding something . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He sounded as if he was thoroughly disgusted by the whole business and she felt a pang of dismay . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Indeed , Mafouz looked as if he was about to do something far more dramatic than simply catch the thing . |
| 23 | He looked as if he was about to say more when someone shouted his name . |
| 24 | His lips moved as if he was about to say something , but he had not formed the words when she interrupted him . |
| 25 | He looked as if he was about to say something else , then apparently thought better of it . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | He looked as if he was about to lose control . |
| 28 | He looked as if he was about to cry . |
| 29 | He looked as if he was about to start sweeping the Common . |
| 30 | Tammuz looked as if he was about to make a cutting response but then actually took note of Zambia 's expression . |