Example sentences of "as [conj] [pron] [adv] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if she ever paid it back ! |
| 2 | Just a minute … ’ and finally , ‘ Well , I expect we 'll see you when you 've the time , ’ as if she only visited them twice a year . |
| 3 | Every morning at Mass he sought her smiling eyes as if she alone understood his loneliness and felt for him . |
| 4 | It was then as if she hardly registered his arrival . |
| 5 | Sally stood still and gazed , glared at Daryl as if she suddenly hated her . |
| 6 | It was n't as if she really needed it , as if there was anyone she wanted to impress … |
| 7 | Between Newbury and Reading a middle-aged man had pressed his knee against hers , and she had had to change compartments , doing her best to look unconcerned about it , as if she often heaved her suitcase down from the rack halfway between stations to try the view farther down the train . |
| 8 | His voice was croaked and hoarse and his shocked stare came to rest on David as if he instinctively knew he was a doctor . |
| 9 | That might intensify that odd look of sympathy on his face , as if he already knew it meant something to her , when it meant nothing to him . |
| 10 | And , just as if he too suspected her caller was Travis , he had taken the diabolical liberty of answering her door himself . |
| 11 | He was looking at me as if he really hated me ; he seized me by the shoulders and pushed me over to the bathroom mirror . |
| 12 | One minute he was kissing her as if he never wanted it to stop , and the next he was trying to protect her in some cryptic , jaded way from a danger that seemed clear to him but was a mystery to her . |
| 13 | He nods morosely , as if he always knew I would leave him , and he tries to impress on me that I have to disappear out of sight . |
| 14 | as if I suddenly knew I could n't be sure of anything any more . ’ |
| 15 | I felt — it was as if I suddenly knew I was going to die and I was nothing , just sand and dust blowing away . ’ |
| 16 | I began to pat at my pockets as if I really meant it but the barman shook his head . |
| 17 | It 's as if I never knew her . ’ |