Example sentences of "[vb pp] as if he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw a man drinking avidly from a green scum-covered marsh , where lay , his black face downward in the water , a dead man lying on his stomach and swollen as if he had not stopped filling himself with water for days … |
| 2 | I waited , but he had stopped as if he thought he had said it all . |
| 3 | If he publishes untrue defamatory matter recklessly , without considering or caring whether it be true or not , he is in this , as in other branches of the law , treated as if he knew it to be false . |
| 4 | The emperor pronounced that a trust was due on these words as if , by prohibiting her from making a will , he had requested that she should make her brother heir : the wording is to be treated as if he had asked her to make over his estate . |
| 5 | He had killed one girl and now , because another was missing , they had come as if he had called them , as if they were his slaves . |
| 6 | He was grim-faced and looked as if he had not slept , but he offered them freshly made coffee and raised a smile for Catherine . |
| 7 | Even Gerard , whom she probably suspected the least , looked as if he had something to hide . |
| 8 | Weasel Eyes looked as if he had n't moved but the other two hypocrites must have dined well for they were slouched , half-asleep , in their high-backed chairs . |
| 9 | ‘ It has failed , ’ he said , then suddenly looked as if he wished he had bitten his tongue . |
| 10 | Though the groom looked as if he longed to get the whole thing over and done with , he obeyed the dictates of tradition and refused . |
| 11 | The offworlder looked as if he failed to comprehend the distinction between science and history . |
| 12 | Sidacai looked as if he thought that the question was unnecessary . |
| 13 | He looked down at her , and for a moment looked as if he regretted his actions . |
| 14 | But Hadrill was carrying a huge score and looked as if he took opera seriously . |
| 15 | Or had looked as if he minded more . |
| 16 | Instead of talking about the job he said some words to me in Punjabi or Urdu and looked as if he wanted to get into a big conversation about Ray or Tagore or something . |
| 17 | But her whole body , strained and bruised as if he had beaten her , that was the monument to his reality . |
| 18 | He had never felt as if he belonged . |
| 19 | So many times she had felt as if he had just steamrollered his way right over her , refusing to listen to her arguments , just using his overpowering physical and mental strength to get his own way . |
| 20 | He slouched back in the chair , his face drawn as if he realised the mortal danger they were now in . |
| 21 | Nick stuffed and stuffed as if he had n't seen food for weeks but Carrie could hardly eat anything . |
| 22 | If MacArthur had acted as if he thought he was Napoleon , John Foster Dulles , a bleak , remote and charmless human being , acted as if he was , at least , another St Paul . |
| 23 | His eyes shifted as if he had been lured on to dangerous ground . |
| 24 | He had shown interest in her work and talked as if he took it seriously . |
| 25 | If , whatever a man 's real intention may be , he so conducts himself that a reasonable man would believe that he was assenting to the terms proposed by the other party , and that other party upon that belief enters into a contract with him , the man thus conducting himself would be equally bound as if he had intended to agree to the other party 's terms . |
| 26 | Her face stung as if he 'd slapped it , but her eyes held defiantly to his . |
| 27 | He 'd spoken as if he thought she was in the habit of collecting fiancés and engagement-rings . |
| 28 | I was glad he had spoken as if he wanted to , but I felt I should apologize , once they had gone . |
| 29 | Where the beneficiary 's interest comes to an end to any extent or is in any way disposed of during his lifetime , then unless he becomes at the same time beneficially entitled to the property in which the interest subsisted or to another interest in possession in it CTT is to be charged as if he had made a transfer ( Continued on page 129 ) of value at that time and the value transferred had been equal to the value of the property in which the interest subsisted . |
| 30 | His eyes danced as if he guessed what she really had thought . |