Example sentences of "[noun] as [subord] [pron] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the US , the protected class includes a person whose disability represents no handicap to employment but is treated by employers as if it did ; or whose disability is a handicap to employment but only as a result of the attitudes of others towards it ; or who has no disability at all but is erroneously treated by employers as disabled . |
| 2 | And you come dancing up in your stinking rags as if it did n't matter ! |
| 3 | Again the boy looked down at his hands , staring at his arms and legs as if they did n't belong to him . |
| 4 | Nearly three months have passed … by now a relieving force may be no more than a day 's march away , and yet you 're prepared to mortgage away your future lives as if they did not exist ! |
| 5 | Your treating the question as if it did n't exist is no help to you , no one ever got away by playing the ostrich . ’ |
| 6 | The House of Lords held that when determining the nature of the source of the income arising to the trust one looked through the trust treating the trust for all practical purposes as if it did not exist . |
| 7 | But you ca n't wipe out the past as if it did n't exist , Ruth thought . |
| 8 | One woman in her late 50s , who went all round Europe on her own after the break-up of her marriage as a sort of test for strength , took the philosophy that it was better to live life as if you did n't expect to meet anyone special . |
| 9 | Gran had noticed it three evenings ago , when they were getting the breakfast things ready , and had pushed it behind one of the geraniums as if she did n't like the sight of it . |
| 10 | ‘ Are you going to a solicitor ? ’ she said in the end , cushioning her voice as if she did n't care . |
| 11 | In the lift at work doctors look right through Babur as if he did not exist . |
| 12 | He moved forward importantly , pushing past Bernice and Cheryl as if they did not exist . |
| 13 | Otley was looking the other way as if he did n't know me when I tried again with a pleasant , motherly woman with a shopping basket full of goodies . |
| 14 | It seemed to Charlotte as if she did not sleep at all that night , though her subsequent recollections of dreaming about telephones and disembodied voices suggested otherwise . |
| 15 | He held the gun as if he did n't know what it was , and looked at her . |
| 16 | ‘ Will your family still be here ? ’ asked Nina , glancing from Rachel to David and back to Rachel again , a slightly bemused look on her face as if she did n't really understand what was happening between them but wished she did . |
| 17 | Nails spun the mini through the traffic , heading out of town , flicking up and down through the gears as if he did it every day . |