Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [verb] as [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relief of escaping from his company was so intense that she felt as if she 'd been wired up to an electric charge for the last few hours and someone had finally taken pity on her and turned off the power . |
| 2 | The bikini is tiny , three triangles of cotton crochet , and her ribs protrude so much that she looks as if she is made of corrugated paper . |
| 3 | ‘ You remarked that she looks as if she were asleep . |
| 4 | The ballerina here is cleverly perched on a matchbox so that she looks as if she is standing up , but you might find it easier to omit her feet and just stand her flat on the cake board . |
| 5 | And there 's the desperate search to find any boyfriend as quickly as possible , so that you look as if you 're all right and not alone . ’ |
| 6 | Not , ’ Kay added cheerfully , ‘ that you look as if you need it . ’ |
| 7 | I looked more closely at his cheeks , and saw that they looked as if they had been rubbed to get them red . |
| 8 | What pleased me very much was that someone said of my first photographs taken abroad that they looked as if they could have been taken anywhere . |
| 9 | What makes these system knowledge-based is not that it somehow takes knowledge to write them , nor that they behave as if they had knowledge , but rather that their architectures include explicit knowledge bases . |
| 10 | Third at the last fence , he passed Royal Mail and with just over a furlong to go was finishing so strongly that it looked as if he must catch Aldaniti . |
| 11 | So that it looked as if it belonged to the house . |
| 12 | It was very quiet in the kitchen except for the clock in the corner that ticked so loudly that it sounded as if it would burst out of its case . |
| 13 | Why could a man 's voice in the night create an ache in a person so deep and so wide that it felt as if it could never be filled ? |
| 14 | Old feuds of race were diminishing , rivalries and prejudices were by degrees fading out.Such frequent and such intimate relations had thus been established between nations , that it seemed as if they must soon unite in one family , in one single federal state . |
| 15 | When it was midnight they took the body of the Cid , fastened to the saddle as it was , and placed it upon his horse Bavieca , and fastened the saddle well : and the body sate so upright and well that it seemed as if he was alive . |
| 16 | Yet she had timed her appearance so exactly that it seemed as if she had been forewarned of the train 's arrival . |
| 17 | For there was about her cage a silence and stillness so great that it seemed as if she had disappeared . |
| 18 | Mr Patten said later : ‘ The important thing as far as I am concerned is that it looks as if we are going to have a Conservative government . |
| 19 | Erm if you look at that it looks as if you spend a bit more on presents than stationery . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's a tragedy that it looks as if he 's quitting just when he 's developed from being a superstar into an awesome megastar . |
| 21 | Attach the arm inside the sarcophagus so that it looks as if it is coming out of the base , and bend it up slightly so that it looks as if it is pushing up the lid . |
| 22 | Attach the arm inside the sarcophagus so that it looks as if it is coming out of the base , and bend it up slightly so that it looks as if it is pushing up the lid . |
| 23 | Place the foot at the base of the door , and attach the arm so that it looks as if it is holding the door open slightly . |
| 24 | I admit that all of this is completely out of order — that it looks as if I 'm putting men in a no-win situation . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | We were approaching the Rover works at Cowley when Michael declared that he felt as if he could pull back the steering column and take off . |
| 27 | The minister said that he felt as if he were being pursued by a wild animal and could only throw off his clothes to distract its attention . |
| 28 | When I quip that he sounds as if he has just come round from anaesthetic , Eva says , ‘ He has . ’ |
| 29 | At the point where in her first aria the prima donna expected from him an angry gesture , he exaggerated his anger so much that he looked as if he was about to box her ears and strike her on the nose with his fist . |
| 30 | He is ‘ a large , hard-breathing , middle-aged slow man , with a mouth like a fish , dull staring eyes , and sandy hair standing upright on his head , so that he looked as if he had just been all but choked , and had that moment come to ’ . |