Example sentences of "from [pers pn] as [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a very uncomfortable thing for me occurred — There were quite enough queens to register Casanova impotent , and yet every one of them shied away from me as if I had the plague . |
| 2 | She snatched her hand away from his as if she feared he might contaminate her and stalked ahead of him , not trusting herself to speak until they were inside her apartment . |
| 3 | He flung her hands away from him as if they had become loathsome . |
| 4 | Benedicta , cooler and more composed , was listening attentively to some story the nobleman was telling her , though now and again moving slightly away from him as if she had come to resent the young gallant 's attentions . |
| 5 | The Poet evidently wants to detach himself totally from the Friend , stand away from him as if he might suffer corruption or contagion by going any nearer . |
| 6 | His shirt had been as cleanly stripped from him as if he had never been wearing it , although his skin appeared uninjured . |
| 7 | She flinched away from him as if he had raised his hand . |
| 8 | ‘ Ta , love , ’ said the messenger , taking them from her as if they were any old signal , carrying them to the coders who would make the groups of figures into words . |