Example sentences of "as [conj] i [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew what he was getting at , of course , and I was so hurt that he should think he had to approach me in such a roundabout fashion — as if I was a terrible , uncharitable woman who had to be coaxed into a simple act of kindness — that I suggested it myself at once , though it was really the last thing I wanted . |
| 2 | He gave me such a look , as if I was being really disgusting . |
| 3 | As if I were — but I was , I realized suddenly . |
| 4 | I 'm about to invest in a brand new , superduper , anti-obsolescence computer and I feel as confident as if I were shopping for a pair of skis . |
| 5 | The choir , and all about it , and the church I rather enjoyed because as as I were growing up most of the p people that came were the business people and the people that were conscientious towards that area , St. John 's . |
| 6 | I never made more friends as easily as when I was among people whose language I spoke badly and who barely spoke mine at all . |
| 7 | ‘ But it was not as bad as when I was first diagnosed . |
| 8 | Well in them days you used to have to er work for eight till six or anything like that you see same as when I was wo first went to work . |
| 9 | I must have studied her with attention for I find that I can at this moment , however reluctantly , see her face before me as distinctly as though I was still sitting in that coffee bar with a quarter of an inch of the brown dregs left in my cup . |
| 10 | I have a nagging sense of being unsatisfied with my behaviour , as though I was doing something morally wrong . |
| 11 | The first time I stood up to cross-examine the CEGB 's opening witness , Derek Davis — the man who had said in 1952 that there was ‘ no strong local opposition ’ to Hinkley C — I felt as though I was floundering in a mess of unthought-out quibbles . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ It came out looking as though I was telling them to stuff the season of goodwill , not buy the children any presents and put a bullet in the turkey . |
| 13 | McIllvanney stared at me as though I was a complete idiot . |
| 14 | ‘ But maybe he does , ’ Thessy insisted sadly , and both he and Ellen stared reproachfully at me as though I was risking all their future prosperity . |
| 15 | Discussions about my future took place behind closed doors , and sometimes in my presence as though I was n't there . |
| 16 | ‘ I felt as though I was stuck in this network of electrical impulses . |
| 17 | I felt as though I was stuck in this network or maze of electrical impulses . |
| 18 | ‘ Sounds as though I was right when I decided to poke into the activities of INCUBUS — and Hauser … ’ |
| 19 | I said , ‘ 'Course I can , ’ an' then 'e starts lookin' at these papers as though I was n't there . |
| 20 | I started doing it with pot , breaking a little bit , squashing it on the foil and smoking it as though I was having a chase . |
| 21 | " It was n't that I was in love with him , you know , " she said , from time to time , as chorus to her main argument , " it was n't as though I was in love with him , you know . " |
| 22 | Kagan looked at me as though I was demented . |
| 23 | ‘ I felt as though I was announcing it the whole time : by the way I watched you , and talked to you , and could hardly manage not to touch you — stroke your head , brush your arm , hold your hand … . |
| 24 | ‘ You and your little nerves , ’ he said and he put his fingers in the back of the collar of my dress and pulled it slightly as though I was a recalcitrant dog . |
| 25 | I was sufficiently idiotic to love with a longing that weakened me as though I was bleeding . |
| 26 | My voice had risen a good half-octave and my hands were waggling around on the end of my arms as though I was trying to shake off bits of Sellotape . |
| 27 | I felt as though I was riding on a pink cloud with all the tension and misery flowing from me in a joyful torrent . |
| 28 | I spoke to him but he walked past me as though I was n't there … |
| 29 | ‘ It looks as though I was wrong about that , too . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ As the midwife came into the room , I had a strong contraction which really felt as though I was in labour . |