Example sentences of "[verb] me as [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of them kisses me as if I had won a prize for the most amusing and far-fetched story of the evening . |
| 2 | She stood up as I entered the room , greeting me as if we were in a drawing-room in Chelsea or Gloucestershire and not in prison . |
| 3 | It promises to be difficult enough without John and Kate treating me as if I 'm a sensitive convalescent . |
| 4 | Towards the end of the thirteen-year marriage she was treating me as if I was someone the cat had brought home . |
| 5 | You are treating me as if I were another Rosette Fournier . ’ |
| 6 | Those People treated me as if I were no better than an animal . |
| 7 | Agrippa 's black cat sat beneath one of the heavy , gold-encrusted arrasses , crouched like a panther , his amber eyes studying me as if I was a mouse . |
| 8 | He pulled me to my feet , and flung his arms around me and squeezed me as if he wanted to gather me right into himself , never let me go , and we stayed like that for a long time , not speaking , rocking to and fro . |
| 9 | Three figures , their faces muffled by cloaks and broad-brimmed hats , seized me and began to beat me as if I was some dog . |
| 10 | At Ångelholm , we were joined by two more people , a grim-looking older woman all in black , who looked as if she had n't smiled since 1937 and who spent the entire journey watching me as if she had seen my face on a wanted poster , and by a fastidious older man who I guessed to be a recently retired schoolmaster and took an instant dislike to . |
| 11 | ‘ You tested me as if I were some wretched little circus dog at the Carnival , doing tricks to please you ? |
| 12 | They think that I 'm just a mousy old woman , and could n't possibly know what goes on — they 've taken away all confidential work from me and Mr. Lennis treats me as if I were a half-wit . |
| 13 | But you 've worked me harder than any donkey and you 've let Tom , Amos and Oseri bait me as if I were a chained bear . " |
| 14 | The letter announcing my visit lay unopened on the mat when she opened the door , and an hour later I came away believing that I admired a woman who could , under these circumstances and in some pain , treat me as if I had just stepped round the corner for a packet of tea ten minutes before , and talk to me about this and that , and nothing at all . |
| 15 | Look , I appreciate the use of the bathroom , but that damn well does n't give you the right to stand there with that superior look on your face , lecturing me as if I were a child . ’ |