Example sentences of "his [noun pl] as [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Immediately the two brutes knelt , licking his fingers as if they were pet dogs . |
| 2 | He dug his fingers into his ribs , massaged his cheeks , and patted the back of his thighs as if they were unproved bread . |
| 3 | The man licked his lips as if they were dry . |
| 4 | She let go his wrists as if they were scalding hot , stepping smartly away . |
| 5 | Most of them did nothing about it but hurried on , some scowling , one , a child , making a face at the camera , holding up his hands as if they were big ears and waggling his fingers . |
| 6 | Obediently , they bowed their heads and he dusted his hands as if they had been contaminated . |
| 7 | On the other hand , if we ignore the ego and its functions in man and concentrate on his instincts as if they could totally account for his behaviour as they do in animals who lack an ego , we should fall into the alternative trap of failing to account for his culture at all except as the outcome of doubtful instinctual behaviour of an altruistic or civilized kind . |
| 8 | Keynes 's refutation of this theory as a description of labour market behaviour in a money using economy , and this formulation of a theory of labour market adjustment which was more appropriate to such an economy , have been glossed over by Friedman and his followers as if they were nothing more than minor , rather idiosyncratic footnotes in the history of economic ideas . |