Example sentences of "at [pers pn] as [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she was looking at me as if we were long-lost friends . |
| 2 | They both looked at me as if they strongly disapproved of me . |
| 3 | He looked at me as if he could not believe his eyes , and a faint , doubtful smile began to move his lips . |
| 4 | He turned his head to stare at me as if he could n't at once comprehend my interest , but then , understanding , said of course I could go if I wanted to . |
| 5 | He looked at me as if he was now wondering quite what it was he had invited into his home . |
| 6 | He looked down at me as if he were a giant and I had just climbed a beanstalk . |
| 7 | A small , dark , intense man with a beard and drooping moustache , who is probably looking at me as if he would like to put daggers in my back ? ’ |
| 8 | He was looking at me as if he really hated me ; he seized me by the shoulders and pushed me over to the bathroom mirror . |
| 9 | The last time I had seen him , on the night of the fire , he had held my hands , told me I had saved his life , and looked at me as if he loved me . |
| 10 | He sits in his chair looking at me as if he ai n't scared . |
| 11 | The bastard smiled evilly at me as if he would have loved to have put a noose round my neck and had me swinging on a branch of the overhanging elm tree . |
| 12 | She smiles at me as if she really likes me . |
| 13 | My feet got so hot and sweaty I took my trainers and socks off and walked along in my bare feet till I saw a traffic warden looking at me as if she 'd get me arrested . |
| 14 | As I looked at her , I thought of her shrinking , like someone in a fairytale , and how one day I might hold her in the palm of my hand with her little voice squeaking commands at me as if she was a mouse I 'd picked up in the garden . |
| 15 | ‘ Cretin ’ , he glared at me as if I 'd said it . |
| 16 | ( I never cease to marvel at the continued confusion in the public mind between nuclear power and weapons : too many people stare at me as if I were some unnaturally hybrid creature when I mention to them that I am both a member of CND and a strident advocate of nuclear power stations to produce electricity . |
| 17 | I can see some of you looking at me as if I 'm crazy , although many of you have seen the beast . |
| 18 | As Anwar and I had these conversations Jamila liked to open the door to the store-room and just point the black barrel-ends of her eyes at me as if I were sitting with Eichmann . |
| 19 | As I got up Terry looked at me as if I 'd just announced I had a private income . |
| 20 | He looked at me as if I were sure of what this was . |
| 21 | And the Gunners ' record signing , pilloried for his moment of madness in the battle of White Hart Lane a week ago , said : ‘ People in the street are going to look at me as if I 'm some kind of nutcase trying to put people out of the game . ’ |
| 22 | But Samantha Sherratt of the Howard League for Penal Reform said : ‘ I would n't want people paying money to come and look at me as if I was in a zoo or a fishbowl . |
| 23 | But a spokeswoman for the Howard League for Penal Reform fumed : ‘ If I was in jail I would n't want people paying money to come and look at me as if I was in a zoo . ’ |
| 24 | would the , did the staff seem interested , a got a nil positive response from them , assistant manager or the other guy who sort of looked at me as if I |
| 25 | I wish I could have said that she was sweetly understanding , but she looked at me as if I were an incubus that had raped her and scraped along the brickwork , desperate to get past . |
| 26 | ‘ What ? ’ cried Mrs Reed , her cold grey eyes full of fear , staring at me as if I were a ghost . |
| 27 | Tessa looked at me as if I had said something odd . |
| 28 | ( He gawped at me as if I 'd told him to swim the Atlantic . ) |
| 29 | over and over she looked at me as if I was crazy . |
| 30 | ‘ Do n't look at me as if I worked here , ’ she said . |