Example sentences of "as [subord] we [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if we 're asking you to do our work . |
| 2 | It 's as if we 're taking responsibility for men 's problem , but if I want to be safe , I feel I have to . |
| 3 | It 's not as if we 're like bus drivers or air traffic controllers . |
| 4 | ‘ Mrs. Olinton 's rung the fire-brigade , but , thanks to you , young lady , it does n't look as if we 're going to need it . |
| 5 | It 's as if we 're rehearsing it : what 's my next line ? |
| 6 | ‘ Looks as if we 're going to have a bull session , Dad . ’ |
| 7 | And since it looks as if we 're all goin' to the same place , why do n't we take our kit to the left luggage then see if we ca n't find that canteen ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It almost sounds as if we 're 58% in charge of what we 're doing . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's as if we 're in the moon ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Looks as if we 're in for a storm . ’ |
| 11 | as if we 're here only to flesh out its game — to give it form . |
| 12 | I feel as if we 're about to get arrested . |
| 13 | Sometimes it seems as if we 're all one big family who usually squabble and keep falling out but who suddenly join forces because we 're threatened by the family down the road . |
| 14 | Some coloured children in this school are getting bad because of the way they get treated , and they make out as if we 're just doing it because we get low examination grades so we start getting bad with the teachers . |
| 15 | It looks as if we 're going to have a hell of a job to identify him . |
| 16 | We budgeted a thousand pounds , it looks as if we 're going to have to spend more on urgent work . |
| 17 | You make it sound as if we 're about eighty . |
| 18 | It 's not as if we 're near my rooms . |
| 19 | ‘ Looks as if we 're going to get some fog now . |
| 20 | It 's bound to get out and then it will look as if we 're helping the Khedive to cover up . |
| 21 | Sounds as if we 're talking about more than one teacher . |
| 22 | And in fact it is as if we 're having , it is if George is actually having two conversations at the same time . |
| 23 | ‘ Looks as if we 're all here , ’ he said , ‘ so let's go . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Knowing your superb taste , Uncle , it sounds as if we 're in for something of a treat , ’ Naylor replied . |
| 25 | but everything else we can sort , getting there , it 's not as if we 're gon na need a bloody fire is it Jane ? |
| 26 | So it 's not as if we 're having breathing and did n't know what to do ! were n't it ? |
| 27 | So , it is n't as if we 're saying , erm maths has always been taught quite well but we can do it better . |
| 28 | Yes , Data Packet Networks , I mean it just means that we 're talking as if we 're one site and not three . |
| 29 | It is almost as if we are confronted here by a replication of the poor Tom described in Ackroyd 's novel by another poor Tom of later times . |
| 30 | But the union just look on us as if we are employed by them . |