Example sentences of "he [verb] as if [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He looks as if he 'd been made King of the Harem . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ He looks as if he needs a drink , ’ said Nicholas , planing his voice into a gentle neutral tone . |
| 3 | He looks as if he has had one facelift too many . |
| 4 | He moved as if he had bags of sugar tied to his ankles . |
| 5 | Just as they approached the doors , he stopped as if he had suddenly come to a decision . |
| 6 | Back again , he behaved as if nothing had happened . |
| 7 | It was strange , the conversation Dad and I had , because when I saw him at home later and over the next few days he behaved as if it had never happened , as if he had n't told me he 'd fallen in love with someone else . |
| 8 | He behaved as if he had n't seen Marie , and the girl went into the house when Jenna stared at her forcefully . |
| 9 | Now , arriving at his own manor of Kouklia , he recognised as if he had been bred to it the sound and smell and look of each component ; each piece of equipment . |
| 10 | By the end , he acted as if he 'd said nothing to me at all earlier about being worried , being followed and everything and he turned the conversation round to me and my future . |
| 11 | When Mr Major learned the result , he acted as if he had seen Chelsea win the Cup rather than his own MPs come so close to humiliating him . |
| 12 | But he acted as if he remembered the phrase that Dean Acheson used in the spring of 1947 , in those days of little sleep and many martinis when Acheson , George Marshall and Harry Truman had to convince a sceptical Congress to back containment . |
| 13 | ‘ Who give a shit ? ’ he replies as if he does give a shit . |
| 14 | She was never quite at ease with Finn , in spite of playing ‘ Battleships ’ with him ; his oblique glance sidled around her and he grinned as if he knew secrets about her which he would not share . |
| 15 | When Papillon prepares for his final escape and Louis says he 's not going , he sounds as if he had decided not to shave that day . ’ |
| 16 | When I quip that he sounds as if he has just come round from anaesthetic , Eva says , ‘ He has . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ He feels as if you played him for a fool . |
| 18 | He laughed as if I had said something annihilatingly funny and kneaded my hand gently against his thigh . |
| 19 | It is essential for his reputation that he again walk as Manager into the Branch which he managed as if he had never been dismissed . |
| 20 | He felt as if something had torn inside him . |
| 21 | Why he felt as if they had just agreed to an illicit liaison he did not know , unless it was the air of sexual invitation this woman wore as other women wore perfume , the practised composition of glance and gesture that she used to imply everything whilst proposing nothing . |
| 22 | And Sir Richard Attenborough was there to tell his audience that he felt as if he had come not just to the centre of Europe but of the world . |
| 23 | He felt as if he had walked for miles and knew that he had certainly had too much to drink . |
| 24 | He felt as if he had just run fifty yards , rather quickly . |
| 25 | He felt as if he had left behind forever the world of crime and hardship and poverty . |
| 26 | When the film used some footage of his wife moving about the cottage , he felt as if he had been given a reprieve . |
| 27 | He felt as if he had only just remembered , after a long time , why he valued her . |
| 28 | He says he felt as if he knew her from a previous life — of course he did . |
| 29 | ‘ Nathan ? ’ she called , and he called back , ‘ Yes ? ’ but there was no second call , and he turned round , and there was nobody there , not a sound , and he felt strange then , he felt as if he 'd been visited . |
| 30 | ‘ Do n't ever follow me again , Peter , ’ she said , totally unexpectedly ; she had n't even looked his way , and he felt as if he 'd been caught in a searchlight 's beam in the middle of some guilty act . |