Example sentences of "them as [subord] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was looking at them as though they were ill or crazed . |
| 2 | She arrives , convincingly , at a much more positive — for the women in question — interpretation ; but also one which allows the writings and lives of these women to have a depth and dimension for us which was simply not available in many cases while we insisted on trying to see them as sexual victims of appalling restrictions of personal freedom : to see them as though they were us . |
| 3 | Do I not face them as though they are slaves ? |
| 4 | Linda Kelly has made herself so familiar with these redoubtable historical figures that she writes about them as though they were her next-door neighbours . |
| 5 | Aunt Elena and Uncle Hal are n't our real aunt and uncle , but we love them as though they were . |
| 6 | Some are special because of the needs that arise from some physical or mental handicap ; some are special because of a particular gift ; some because no one treats them as though they are special . |
| 7 | He felt embarrassed at the thought of walking among the men , assessing them as though they were cattle in an auction market . |
| 8 | ‘ I hate talking about all of them as though they were a lost tribe . ’ |
| 9 | Treat them as though they were young adults . |
| 10 | He would no more have thought of behaving as Harold Macmillan did in 1962 , and dismissing nearly a half of them as though they were junior executives in an ailing company , than it would have occurred to him to divorce his wife and marry one of his walking companions . |
| 11 | Worse than that , in practice if not intent , many local councils , including Labour authorities , treat them as though they were rough and rootless by banishing them to barren reservations . |
| 12 | They are , in part , inevitable in writing , especially when the writer is thinking hard , and may be missed when the piece is proof-read , because we expect the words to be correct , and read them as though they were . |
| 13 | You can take X-ray pictures of these crystalline atoms , like salt and the all because , they all fit into a nice little pattern , you know when we were sort of playing about with them as though they 've go t magnets on ? |
| 14 | I found a canvas bag in his wardrobe in which I laid the pages , handling them as though they were living and in pain . |
| 15 | When the hunt — which is conducted by setting grass fires and spearing the pigs as they flee — separates a sow from her litter , the hunters put the piglets in a bog and take them home to the women , who proceed to raise them as though they were children . |
| 16 | He kept grinning at them as though they were all three the very best of friends , but clearly that was n't quite so . |
| 17 | The shop lights illuminated them as though they were valuable items on display in a museum . |
| 18 | And then he was gone , and the fans were left cheering his showmanship , while the girls who had roses held them as though they were made of gold . |
| 19 | But Montana , great professional that he is , will approach them as though they were the Dallas Cowboys . |
| 20 | But Montana , great professional that he is , will approach them as though they were the Dallas Cowboys . |
| 21 | Attempts by trade unions to organise such temporary workers might well make little headway , as much because the latter do not perceive that they need unions to protect them as because they are a transient population . |