Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] as [subord] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I slowly got to my feet and they all started laughing happily as if I was n't dead after all . |
| 2 | Just because I 'm a girl I can be brushed aside as if I 'm of no account . |
| 3 | ‘ I ca n't say I feel much as if I am , ’ he added . |
| 4 | I feel exactly as if I were having a very prolonged dream but every time I come out of it I 'm so tired I fall back into it again . |
| 5 | I feel really as if I ought to start flying through this awful mess ! |
| 6 | I am bound to say that his personality and his voice with his Glasgow accent were a little disconcerting at first ( I felt rather as if I were being addressed by my highly educated carpenter ) , but he inspired me with such confidence as he went on that I forgot that , and of course one has to recognise that a new era in political life has dawned for England , the old aristocratic school is practically swept out of it , it is the dawn of the new " regime " . |
| 7 | [ I was ] so oppressed by a sense of sin that I felt almost as if I should die ! |
| 8 | After a while , the numbness I 'd experienced after the press conference set in , and I felt again as if I were talking not about John and me , but about two different people . |
| 9 | With eyes fixed on me as if I was hypnotisin' him , he takes the papermate out of the tray and moves away as if I might bite . |
| 10 | I was in no mood to stop , and continued past as if I thought they wanted to film me from behind . |
| 11 | He behaves exactly as if I ought to be ashamed . |