Example sentences of "[be] as [subord] [pron] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's as if he was spirited away . ’ |
| 2 | And it 's as if it was n't floating on the surface and it was doing all the things that fishes do but it was |
| 3 | It 's as if I was talking to somebody . |
| 4 | One of my boyfriends said that it 's as if I was from another planet . |
| 5 | Other times , it is as if I was writing about someone else . |
| 6 | Yet after the robbery it was as if everything was in a highlight : the hawkers , the ‘ comprame , señor ’ women , the children 's shouts of ‘ cigarros , amigo , ’ as they trotted beside me , the constant offer of ‘ dolares , dolares . ’ |
| 7 | It was as if something was trying to break into the room . |
| 8 | I knew that he would not understand what I was going to say but it was as if there was an invisible person in the carriage before whom I had to justify myself . |
| 9 | But it was as if there was a halter on his tongue . |
| 10 | They could not have told when the music tightened its hold and began its pull , but to Taliesin , afterwards , it was as if there was a moment when he knew that he was able to resist , and then another moment when he had surrendered completely . |
| 11 | It was as if there was something out there — or perhaps several somethings — struggling to break free of a force that had held them for a very long time . |
| 12 | It was as if there was a wave of water and the wave turned a wheel and the wheel turned a cog and the cog turned a piston and the piston punched out a wave , bigger and more overwhelming than the first wave , turning a bigger wheel , a bigger cog , a bigger piston and then finally a wave that seemed enough to swallow everything in its path . |
| 13 | It was as if there was a force field there . |
| 14 | The room was dark but it was as if there was something fluttering in it . |
| 15 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 16 | It was as if it was only when the surf was at its most savage that the ghost of Eddie Aikau could be expected to revisit the Bay . |
| 17 | It was as if it was harbouring some great consuming sadness and had lost the urge to live . |
| 18 | So I did n't do any appropriate sociability there but I think what threw me off is cos I 'd already said Helen to Stephen , I know you and everything and it was as if it was part of the same thing |
| 19 | This place had bred romance after romance , and it was as if it was that she had felt tingling in the air all night , like a presence … |
| 20 | This made me feel a quite genuine shame and remorse although — it was as if I was torn into two separate parts both rationally and emotionally — I knew that hurt bewilderment was something I should beware of : he was my enemy who would use any art to outwit me if I could . |
| 21 | It was as if I was another man . |
| 22 | This morning I can kind of feel it , but last night it was as if I was when I swallowed there was a big lump . |
| 23 | But Chaman was very protective and supportive ; it was as if I was still living with my mother . ’ |
| 24 | It was as if he was three years old . |
| 25 | He did n't really like the way she called him Nigel — it was as if he was a stranger . |
| 26 | It was as if he was addressing a recalcitrant jury . |
| 27 | One more story about O : he told me ( it was as if he was trying to explain the oddity of his lovemaking to me , as if he was trying to account for or apologise for the way he 'd treated me , or perhaps to reassure me concerning the effect he 'd had on me , I do n't know ) , in the morning he told me that there was one man , this had been just a couple of years previously , there was one man who had summoned him to his bedside to be counted amongst a farewell gathering of lovers , dear friends and great passions . |
| 28 | It was as if he was making a declaration : I am taking this Boy home , this Boy of ours , and this is how I feel about him . |
| 29 | It was as if he was dropping a hint or letting slip a little clue thinking that one day someone would read his diaries just as I was doing . ’ |
| 30 | It was as if he was utterly mad . |