Example sentences of "[vb pp] as [subord] she " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | She was deathly pale , her face almost swollen as if she had spent her life in tears . |
| 2 | I wanted Anna to be liked for Anna , and not to be treated as if she were different . |
| 3 | Furious at being treated as if she were a brainless bimbo , she raised her eyebrows , giving him back such a measured look that he actually coloured a little and moved away . |
| 4 | Charlie was dead keen on Lilian doing him credit and she always did , always looked as if she 'd just stepped out of a bandbox . |
| 5 | The little girl hesitantly offered the bowl to Marion , who for a moment looked as if she would snatch it and throw it at her . |
| 6 | Her blonde curls looked as if she had just come from a hairdresser rather than from the hand basin in her own bedroom which was where she had washed her hair this morning . |
| 7 | His mother always looked as if she had dressed up for the occasion , which indeed she had . |
| 8 | This girl looked as if she was on her first assignment , as she sat with pencil poised over her shorthand notebook . |
| 9 | The Daughter looked as if she were ready to give out with the old Technicolor Yawn . |
| 10 | The woman looked as if she was suffering from a terminal liver disease . |
| 11 | Their daughter , Carla , nearly five now , looked as if she had n't been washed for days . |
| 12 | She wore a large white straw hat and looked as if she 'd just been to church . |
| 13 | Emily , however , looked as if she had . |
| 14 | The girl looked as if she could do with a fairy godmother , or perhaps just a mother . |
| 15 | Jacqui stood up and looked as if she was about to hit him . |
| 16 | One woman looked as if she was carrying ice-skates , and maybe that meant that the lake should be frozen . |
| 17 | My mum looked as if she was in the middle of being kidnapped . |
| 18 | At one point it had looked as if she might have been forced to live at home with her parents , and much as Rachel loved them she knew that arrangement just would n't work . |
| 19 | It was no wonder she 'd looked as if she 'd aged , she thought guiltily , and no wonder she 'd looked miserable ; the poor woman did n't have too much to look happy about . |
| 20 | She 'd looked as if she 'd seen the devil himself . |
| 21 | In the scorching heat she had felt as if she would pass out ; now she wished she had . |
| 22 | In the first round of the championship , Miss Minoprio had frightened the life out of one , Miss Summerville , who later explained to the press that she had felt as if she were playing " a supernatural being " . |
| 23 | She 'd felt as if she 'd been fighting with Guy Sterne all her life ! |
| 24 | Vitor seemed to have something beneath his skin which had connected with something beneath hers , and her breathing was quickening , her pulses raced , she no longer felt as if she was standing on solid ground . |
| 25 | Alexandra ate her pudding in two savage mouthfuls and gulped as if she was swallowing medicine . |
| 26 | Frau Nordern was , or sounded as if she was , utterly amazed . |
| 27 | The young woman sounded as if she was n't English . |
| 28 | She was as white as a ghost , and her eyes were shadowed as if she had n't slept properly for weeks . |
| 29 | Her bottom stung as if she 'd sat on a nest of hornets , but she wanted to show them she 'd survived . |
| 30 | At home they had behaved as if she were a toddler going to a first party in a party frock rather than a huge ungainly student eighteen years of age going to university dressed from head to toe in dark clothes . |