Example sentences of "as [subord] [pron] [was/were] " 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 | Ali poses a question , his eyes closed , his lips parting as if her were sliding open manhole covers . |
| 10 | The customs officers run their eyes over us as if we were n't there . |
| 11 | It is absurd to disagree about whether we should be fixed to the Deutschmark or not , while behaving as if we were . |
| 12 | It is as if we were to pay family allowances to every third family on a different scale in each place . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | as if we were saying : Sod you , I do n't care . |
| 16 | Matata shook his head again , as if we were fools . |
| 17 | For example , many soap operas omit older people entirely , as if we were all perpetually middle-aged ! |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | as if we were royalty , Alec thought with an amused smile ; as if we were Tudors or Plantagenets . |
| 20 | as if we were royalty , Alec thought with an amused smile ; as if we were Tudors or Plantagenets . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The townfolk always stared as if we were doing it on purpose , and that made us feel worse . |
| 23 | We ran the race as if we were competing in a 100 metres , charging full tilt at the bends . |
| 24 | It was foolish , even stupid ; it was n't as if we were even contenders for a medal . |
| 25 | It is as if we were to carry our own sonic searchlight with us . |
| 26 | It seemed as if we were flying in the 1930s . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | There was an odd sort of camaraderie about it all , as if we were the front-line troops in battle . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I liked that idea : it seemed aristocratic to me , just walking out empty-handed as if we were above all objects . |