Example sentences of "as [conj] he [vb past] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It lent to his words an air of impressive finality , as if he had been thinking out each point for the first time and had come to a halt . |
| 2 | He said abruptly , rather as if he had been thinking about something quite different all the time Nick had been talking — ‘ She may be a little upset , I 'm afraid . |
| 3 | The first arrivals were coming out of Customs now : two middle-aged couples , a crowd of kids who looked like students , a family with four children and grandma , a man who looked as if he had been drinking on the plane , his collar undone and his tie hanging . |
| 4 | He seemed eager to talk , as if he had been searching for a listener for some time . |
| 5 | He seemed calm , almost as if he had been expecting his deputy 's treachery . |
| 6 | as if he had been considering Preston 's problems and this was his solution to them . |
| 7 | So he has got the scrum right , just as if he had been listening to Graham Price all along . |
| 8 | She felt smugly satisfied that she had not fed his ego by asking what he did in London , or any of the other dozen or so questions it looked as if he had been bracing himself for . |
| 9 | Rather embarrassed that he had waited … as if he had been hanging on … shy , although it could not be the surroundings , he very gratefully accepted the offer of claret , knew it to be a good one and said so … did not know quite what to say … he had found a peculiar empathy grow between himself and this handsome , strong , elegant , privileged man of the world when they had been in the little hill church of St Kentigern 's . |
| 10 | This had only added to Brian 's sense of guilt , as if he had been prying , probing into something personal that was not his business . |
| 11 | The party set off downstream along the river bank and Rostov concentrated on making it look as if he had been riding bareback all his life . |
| 12 | The boy 's face looked faintly smeared , as if he had been crying . |
| 13 | It was as if he had been running a high temperature or tripped out of his head on acid . |
| 14 | The fans absolutely loved him and would throng the terraces to witness his extrovert pre-match warm-up sessions , in which he entertained and even amused the supporters before returning to the dressing-room as mud-stained and soiled as if he had been playing in a game . |
| 15 | Now , as he waited for his flight , he felt exhausted , as if he had been playing an enormously difficult game of poker for high stakes . |
| 16 | His beard was grey-white , but discoloured yellow around his mouth as if he had been drooling thin custard . |
| 17 | He looked as if he had been conserving all his energy since then for the moment when he took advantage of an error by Butcher to shoot strongly past Woods . |
| 18 | He looked as if he had been conserving all his energy since then for the moment when he took advantage of an error by Butcher to shoot strongly past Woods . |
| 19 | What had happened in Amsterdam at the Strickers ' had stunned him — as if he had been standing too long ‘ against a church wall ’ . |
| 20 | He answered immediately , as if he had been standing by the instrument . |
| 21 | Whereupon he tried it stante pede , shoved the stool away and played standing at the organ , at the same time working the pedal , and doing it all as if he had been practising it for several months . |
| 22 | It was as if he had been waiting there for me all my life . |
| 23 | He looked as if he had been waiting for some time . |
| 24 | The youth was certainly one of the vagabond gipsies , and it looked as if he had been spying out Farmer Yatton 's land , for the very next morning Angela 's daddy came into the farmhouse with the news that several sacks of potatoes and a quantity of oats had been stolen from one of the storehouses during the night . |
| 25 | She said it looked as if he had been fighting . |
| 26 | Woolley looked as if he had been fighting a forest fire : his eyes were red , his face was filthy , and one ear had bled down his neck . |
| 27 | Hector was behind the door , as if he 'd been hiding there , painfully thin , still unshaven , a stained rag over his eyes . |
| 28 | His hair was damp as if he 'd been swimming and he was dressed casually in jeans and a thin denim-blue shirt . |
| 29 | The impossibly blond hair seemed dishevelled and appealingly boyish , as if he 'd been tossing restlessly . |
| 30 | And breathless too , as if he 'd been running . |