Example sentences of "as [subord] [pron] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its smartly dressed citizens go about their business as if nothing was happening . |
| 2 | He 'd carry on as if nothing was the matter , though some days his face was grey with pain . |
| 3 | I said he 'd probably have the curtains drawn and the place would smell of joss-sticks , but if she behaved as if nothing was out of the ordinary , all would be fine . |
| 4 | Well , she did behave as if nothing was out of the ordinary , and I began to suspect that Oliver was a little displeased . |
| 5 | Well , with this mental disease I have , I think of the many other artists suffering mentally and I tell myself that this does not prevent one from exercising the painter 's profession as if nothing was amiss . |
| 6 | I filled it up and I was walking out the door as if nothing was happening and got arrested . |
| 7 | Sandy , leaning with her head on his shoulder , carried on as if nothing was untoward . |
| 8 | He was down and sometimes it seemed as if nothing was going to shake him out of it , apart from a laugh at someone else 's expense or a shared moment of despair . |
| 9 | They 'd chuck their pitch-forks , just as if they was javelins . |
| 10 | They expect you to take 'em seriously , no matter how pitiful they are — in fact , the more pitiful they are , the more their wives at home probably laugh at 'em , the more they expect you to behave as if they was some Eastern potentate or something . |
| 11 | Yet after the robbery it was as if everything was in a highlight : the hawkers , the ‘ comprame , señor ’ women , the children 's shouts of ‘ cigarros , amigo , ’ as they trotted beside me , the constant offer of ‘ dolares , dolares . ’ |
| 12 | However , there is a danger here of what I call the definitional fallacy , that is a tendency to seek to present the law as if everything was completely cut and dried , whereas such ‘ defences ’ may be better understood as ‘ excuses ’ the primary function of which , from a ( negative ) utilitarian point of view , is simply to minimize the amount of punishment actually imposed without jeopardizing the credibility of the general system of threat through which , arguably , criminal law realizes its prescriptive function . |
| 13 | Amsterdam was pulling on his gloves , smiling at her as if everything was all right with his world , keeping his tribulation to himself . |
| 14 | ‘ It made me feel as if everything was all right with the world . |
| 15 | The fog continued to enclose them in their own world for the whole of the next day , deadening all sound outside so that it seemed as if everything was hushed and waiting . |
| 16 | Abruptly she looked in another direction — somehow , she felt unsteady , as if everything was getting away from her ! |
| 17 | Lack of spontaneity suggests a high degree of calculation , looking at a situation as if one was not really part of it . |
| 18 | It seemed as if everyone was going to conform to this funeral except him . |
| 19 | Deep within the shadows of the Wolfwood , there were unmistakable movements ; not ordinary movements as if somebody was walking quite normally and openly through the Trees , or even furtive movements as if somebody was creeping along , dodging between the trees , hoping not to be seen . |
| 20 | Deep within the shadows of the Wolfwood , there were unmistakable movements ; not ordinary movements as if somebody was walking quite normally and openly through the Trees , or even furtive movements as if somebody was creeping along , dodging between the trees , hoping not to be seen . |
| 21 | Then a kind of muffled shouting could be heard somewhere underneath them , as if somebody was having a fight or an argument . |
| 22 | It 's funny now , she said it as if she was you know under pressure , and she had to get up , I remember one night as if somebody was very quietly you know putting a blanket over me , that 's honest . |
| 23 | Looks as if somebody was sort of passed over to the other |
| 24 | They were all scanning the forest 's depths now and Snizort saw that a sudden stillness and an intense wariness had stolen over them , as if whatever was moving out there in the Forest was strange and alien and menacing . |
| 25 | He had a tendency , even a compulsion to repeat short phrases which seemed particularly apt : to hammer at them as if something was being shaped on an anvil , or as if each phrase was a key which unlocked whole galleries of memory . |
| 26 | But still the horses would n't budge : they were fixed as if something was holding them to the road . |
| 27 | ‘ as if something was … killing them . |
| 28 | as if something was hanging over them . |
| 29 | They put a red blanket over her in the ambulance and it was soft to her touch but then the pain did come , up in the wall of her back as if something was being pulled away like the backing from sticking plaster . |
| 30 | The rope seemed to tremble , as if something was moving along it . |