Example sentences of "as [subord] she [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She used passionate verbs such as ‘ adore ’ and ‘ detest ’ , as if she wished to proclaim her readiness to fight for every one of those five strokes , for every one of those five points . |
| 2 | I looked towards the chateau entrance and saw Queen Poison , dreadful as an army in battle array , sweep towards me across the lowered drawbridge , arms extended as if she wished to clasp me to her deceitful bosom . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , ’ she added , with a quick look round as if she thought to check whether anyone might hear , ‘ Sir John 's partiality for Benedict extended also to his mother . ’ |
| 4 | She could not refuse him , accordingly , and did not ; but more and more it was almost as if she had given in to Mr Poole 's demands ; one man was much like another . |
| 5 | She felt as if she had given her last performance . |
| 6 | The bounce went out of her as if she had burst . |
| 7 | ‘ Respect for the dead , ’ he said , speaking to Carrie quite angrily , as if she had questioned this action . |
| 8 | Lori seemed to shudder right through to her very bones ; then it was as if she had shaken off a darkness that had possessed her for too long . |
| 9 | But when Felicity arrived , three days later , it seemed at first glance as if she had lost every atom of her old charm . |
| 10 | Sometimes , as Harriet went about her days , inwardly sorrowing but outwardly self-controlled , she felt as if she had lost both a husband and a daughter . |
| 11 | She sounded sad and resigned as if she had lost something . |
| 12 | He was so surprised that he let her go , as if she had cut herself free of him . |
| 13 | He pondered the question , as if she had posed it seriously , then he leant forward and whispered conspiratorially . |
| 14 | Pushing Charlotte home in the dusk , she felt rather exhilarated , as if she had made a discovery . |
| 15 | It was as if she had made her decision , her momentous decision to marry , sleepwalking . |
| 16 | as if she had heard her , Agnes swallowed the spirit , only immediately to splutter and choke and cough . |
| 17 | She looked as if she had heard a lot more , but was too tactful to say so . |
| 18 | She was n't saying anything , but Ma smiled at her as if she had done something very clever . |
| 19 | At Ångelholm , we were joined by two more people , a grim-looking older woman all in black , who looked as if she had n't smiled since 1937 and who spent the entire journey watching me as if she had seen my face on a wanted poster , and by a fastidious older man who I guessed to be a recently retired schoolmaster and took an instant dislike to . |
| 20 | Her face was turned away , as if she had seen something out of the corner of her eye . |
| 21 | The cream stucco on the houses — the imposing pillared porches with their black-and-white tiled steps ; she felt as if she had seen it all before in a dream . |
| 22 | He had assumed , discriminated , made her feel as if she had to apologise for the way she lived her life , when he knew nothing , nothing of her circumstances or her reasons . |
| 23 | It was n't as if she had searched for it , determined to see what lay behind the forever locked door . |
| 24 | This state she spontaneously pictured as if she had become small , about the size of a jar of marmalade ( this image appeared with a kind of authority ) and had put herself away in a small square recess in a wall , just large enough to hold her . |
| 25 | It was as if she had accepted the fact that her mother had gone out of her life and that her future lay with this big fat woman , who alternately yelled and cajoled , and the nice man called Ben . |
| 26 | She began to pour the tea and when she had finally finished and sat down felt as if she had run the London Marathon . |
| 27 | ‘ What 's wrong , Dana ? ’ she asked , feeling as if she had run a mile instead of just a few feet . |
| 28 | It made her feel strong , invincible almost , and just a tiny bit as if she had drunk too much wine . |
| 29 | She touched it warily and again there was the hot , dark heat , the feeling of suffocation closing about her , the surging upwards of bitter scalding liquid , as if she had drunk something that was too hot which was laced with a bitter and evil drug . |
| 30 | It was as if she had fallen out of a generous sky . |