Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] as [subord] you " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have cared for you as if you were my own family ! ’ |
| 2 | And remember , any document you sign abroad is as legally binding for you as if you signed it at home . |
| 3 | You too — you spend time amongst us as if you were our sister . ’ |
| 4 | Take stairs rather than lifts or escalators ; do not trudge up them as if you were mounting Everest but go as briskly as you can . |
| 5 | ‘ Does n't sound to me as if you made it up , ’ Culley said . |
| 6 | It sounds to me as if you all need a jolly good thrashing . |
| 7 | And it looks to me as if you do , too ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It sounded to me as if you were doing all right . |
| 9 | And it looks to me as if you two lovely people were just made for each other ! ’ |
| 10 | Oh , it sounds to me as if you miss the days when there was a bit more action on , |
| 11 | ‘ And when you could n't get rid of me you worked on me as if you were working gold , moulding me to what you wanted — a malleable piece of property worth a fortune , sitting nicely in the palm of your hand . ’ |
| 12 | A tall , prematurely white-haired man in a navy blue suit , with eyes that could focus on you as if you were a fly that had settled on a distant door-knob , he could dominate a large room while seated behind a desk at one end of it and without raising his voice above a conversational level . |
| 13 | Said you were top brass and that I could talk to you as if you were the Commissioner himself . " |
| 14 | ‘ Now you know how I felt every time I saw you with Adam , hugging him to you as if you were a bosom friend . |
| 15 | Gerald will start , er , and he will talk to you as if you were a potential client , but so he can actually relate it to somebody , he 'll choose one of you . |
| 16 | There was no emotion in my voice , that 's how it is with people who 've been abused , you talk about it as if you 're just calmly stating a fact . |
| 17 | yes , but you 're always on about it as if you wished you 'd had a |
| 18 | Do n't think you can barge in here harassing me like this , ’ she snapped , ‘ shooting questions at me as if you were taking part in a firing squad . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Because when you came out of that theatre party , despite singing our song so wonderfully , you looked at me as if you did n't know me . ’ |
| 20 | yeah , well I was there the other day and erm the bell went and nobody sort of moved and I thought I think , I know , you know , so I got up and I washed me cup of tea like , you know , they looked at me as if you know oh there 's a keen , but I mean I do think it 's important to do that , because not only that it 's not fair for the |
| 21 | He knew how to look at you as if you were the only person who 'd ever interested him . |
| 22 | At Liverpool clubs , the toilets are full of catsuited girls who look at you as if you 're rumoured to be a child molester . |
| 23 | People look at you as if you 'd said you had plague . |
| 24 | Er they take you into the office , tell you to sit down , and they look at you as if you 're a little schoolboy . |
| 25 | And , and look at you as if you 're an old fogey if you say tuppence I expect . |
| 26 | So it does n't matter whether we look at it as whether you 'd get a third or whether you say you 'd get two sixths well it does n't matter cos it 's the same size it 's just it 's cut into two pieces or the way you wanted to do it which was a good way with the first pizza . |