Example sentences of "as [conj] [pron] were " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ali poses a question , his eyes closed , his lips parting as if her were sliding open manhole covers . |
| 2 | The customs officers run their eyes over us as if we were n't there . |
| 3 | It is absurd to disagree about whether we should be fixed to the Deutschmark or not , while behaving as if we were . |
| 4 | It is as if we were to pay family allowances to every third family on a different scale in each place . |
| 5 | Perhaps this is a challenge to put it at the centre of our lives , to think about it and , this Lent , to read the story as if we were there . |
| 6 | If we did see some figure approaching , or standing in the distance , we would release our tense handclasp , fingers intertwined , and walk apart , puffing idly at our cigarettes or lighting new ones from Pablo 's box of fosforos , as if we were just friends out for a casual stroll . |
| 7 | as if we were saying : Sod you , I do n't care . |
| 8 | Matata shook his head again , as if we were fools . |
| 9 | For example , many soap operas omit older people entirely , as if we were all perpetually middle-aged ! |
| 10 | Many eastern approaches are passive in that they aim to empty the mind , or help us to reach the stage whereby we become observers of our own thoughts as if we were somehow separate from them . |
| 11 | as if we were royalty , Alec thought with an amused smile ; as if we were Tudors or Plantagenets . |
| 12 | as if we were royalty , Alec thought with an amused smile ; as if we were Tudors or Plantagenets . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The townfolk always stared as if we were doing it on purpose , and that made us feel worse . |
| 15 | We ran the race as if we were competing in a 100 metres , charging full tilt at the bends . |
| 16 | It was foolish , even stupid ; it was n't as if we were even contenders for a medal . |
| 17 | It is as if we were to carry our own sonic searchlight with us . |
| 18 | It seemed as if we were flying in the 1930s . |
| 19 | In the bar that evening we felt as if we were in the movie Top Gun as U.S. Navy pilots sang , ‘ You 've Lost That Lovin' Feeling ’ to us . |
| 20 | There was an odd sort of camaraderie about it all , as if we were the front-line troops in battle . |
| 21 | She could be pretty serious and honest , though , explaining hurt and pain as if we were all openly human like her , and not screwed-up and secretive and tricky . |
| 22 | I liked that idea : it seemed aristocratic to me , just walking out empty-handed as if we were above all objects . |
| 23 | Yet he had photographs of her in every jacket pocket , and they fell out of books at the wrong time and upset Eva ; and when he asked me about Mum , Dad and I had to go into another room , away from Eva , as if we were discussing something disgraceful . |
| 24 | You two behaved as if we were still in the sticks . |
| 25 | Some people think that having reasons for faith is an insult to God , as if we were desperately grubbing around for make-shift reasons to believe in him . |
| 26 | The method of composition helps to explain the feel of the blank verse ; it should be read aloud , in a quiet meditative manner , as if we were listening to a man trying hard to clarify his own thoughts about a difficult topic and at the same lime explaining it to somebody else . |
| 27 | He must be living in a dream world talking about the traditions and vitality of rural life as if we were still stuck in the Middle Ages . |
| 28 | After spending some time there ( as if we were actually present ) we will gradually come back to the present day , and as we do so we will become more reflective and try and push the present away from us — making it strange — by maintaining a certain distance from our immediate history . |
| 29 | Individuality counts for little as the nurse in the antenatal clinic brightly calls us ‘ Mother ’ , and the doctor treats us as if we were half-witted . |
| 30 | We constantly come across situations where colleagues treat us as if we were just raising points of sexuality to be difficult , or as a piece of axe-grinding . |