Example sentences of "who [vb past] as if he [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this could never be real , this never could be happening to her , walking on the white squares behind Finn , who moved as if he did not set his feet to the ground , so gracefully , so uncannily . |
| 2 | In America he seemed the embodiment of the new age , ‘ the Bolshevik pianist ’ who played as if he had ‘ steel fingers , steel biceps , steel triceps ’ . |
| 3 | Perry was a thick-set , bull-necked man who looked as if he 'd been eased into his suit with a shoe-horn . |
| 4 | Feeling increasingly nervous as his appointment drew near , Morris was ushered into a vast boardroom , where the door was flung open by ‘ a giant of a man who looked as if he had been fed on rum all his life ’ : . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Santerres were waiting for us with Bowyer who looked as if he had really settled in , shirt open at the collar , stubby feet enclosed in buskins whilst his fat face was flushed with drink and his breath smelt like a wine press . |
| 7 | He could imagine Galland , a small man who looked as if he had permanent indigestion . |
| 8 | And at the cemetery the vicar , a man who looked as if he needed far more consolation than he would ever be capable of dispensing , had agreed to say a few words before Henry 's address . |
| 9 | A skinny man who looked as if he did n't sleep nights . |