Example sentences of "to [pers pn] as [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too often , the loss of these senses results in older people being treated as if they were mentally impaired , with people talking to them as if they were slightly silly , or as if they had reverted to infancy . |
| 2 | I find myself deferring to them as if they were consultants . |
| 3 | The Spirit is his parting gift to the Church to make his presence as real to them as if they were listening to him teaching beside the Sea of Galilee : and the Spirit can do more for us than ever Jesus could have done had we been his contemporaries . |
| 4 | Thinking of the faith as though it were a philosophical position , and of those who had come to preach to them as if they were travelling intellectuals , led the Corinthians to imagine themselves as judges between the various emphases they heard . |
| 5 | It was borne upon us pretty quickly that the interested watchers were wearing air force blue , and that from the distance it probably looked to them as if we were all stark naked . |
| 6 | It looks to me as if we 've forgotten how to retreat . |
| 7 | But this girl her name is Monica she looks to me as if she 's suicidal , she could do anything . " |
| 8 | Honestly , it sounded to me as if he was giving them all some kind of ultimatum . ’ |
| 9 | And the girl who came for him was Young and Insolent and spoke to me as if I were some common washerwoman who must do as she was told which is not in my nature nor never was . |
| 10 | Since then I am called ‘ Majesty ’ and it seems to me as if I was part of a play . |
| 11 | Of whom did Queen Victoria complain , ‘ He speaks to me as if I was a public meeting ? |
| 12 | They account for our general sense of the appropriacy and inappropriacy of language as reflected in impromptu observations about style , varying from Queen Victoria 's remark on Mr Gladstone that " he speaks to Me as if I were a public meeting " , to more everyday comments like " No one would ever speak like that " , and to attributions like colloquial , journalistic , biblical , childlike , pedantic . |
| 13 | As I said , you must speak to me as if I were my father . |
| 14 | Do n't talk to me as if I was one of your Deptford pals . |
| 15 | Will you stop talking to me as if I 'm an idiot ? ’ |
| 16 | He is talking to me as if I could be a partner in his business : he is drawing me in . |
| 17 | ‘ Does n't sound to me as if you made it up , ’ Culley said . |
| 18 | It sounds to me as if you all need a jolly good thrashing . |
| 19 | And it looks to me as if you do , too ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ It sounded to me as if you were doing all right . |
| 21 | And it looks to me as if you two lovely people were just made for each other ! ’ |
| 22 | Oh , it sounds to me as if you miss the days when there was a bit more action on , |
| 23 | ‘ He handed it to me as if it was no more than offering me an apple in a market-place . |
| 24 | Everyone , including the Indians , seemed to be happy and laughing , and in my surly mood I unkindly wished them all in hell — chiefly because no one was in any hurry to serve me and I had to sit and watch a party at the next table consume a feast that looked to me as if it had issued straight from Nirvana , before I was even shown a menu . |
| 25 | And looking at the traffic on the railways , it looks to me as if it 's all absolutely wonderful , hunkydory and everything else , so er unless you 're er er bl s No no no no all the trains right up to the er nine minutes past one Harrogate train er , and the four minutes past one Plymouth train , all seem to be bang on train . |
| 26 | It looks to me as if it 's going to blooming rain again . |
| 27 | It sounds to me as if it could be a bit worrying to think that when you went to see your doctor you 'd be faced by a machine instead of a human being the other side of desk . |
| 28 | Said you were top brass and that I could talk to you as if you were the Commissioner himself . " |
| 29 | ‘ Now you know how I felt every time I saw you with Adam , hugging him to you as if you were a bosom friend . |
| 30 | 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 . |