Example sentences of "as [subord] [pers pn] [verb] gone " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without exception they were splattered in paint as if they 'd gone in for action art . |
| 2 | My legs felt as if they had gone to sleep : I trod painfully on nothing . |
| 3 | Her father said she looked as if she had gone three rounds in the boxing ring . |
| 4 | Luke was still staring at her as if she had gone mad . |
| 5 | Her husband , suffering in his own quite different way , looked at her as if she had gone crazy . |
| 6 | Nicolo stared at her as if she 'd gone mad . |
| 7 | She has recently left home , and whenever they talk about her my parents ' voices are disapproving , as if she has gone off the rails in some way which they do n't specify . |
| 8 | He made it seem as if he had gone to New Orleans drunk , got sober and wrote a book . |
| 9 | Once the lids of the outer case and the leaden shell had been removed , the workman prised off the lid of the inner coffin ; the slightly yellowed silk sheets were drawn back and there lay the body of the child , looking as if he had gone off to sleep but a few moments before . |
| 10 | Mrs Stych opened her eyes slowly and looked at him as if he had gone mad . |
| 11 | His face was unshaved and the hands , rigidly clamped together in his lap , were grubby , as if he had gone to bed unwashed . |
| 12 | Violet looked at Patrick as if he had gone mad . |
| 13 | She just could n't help it , and Marguerite looked at her son as if he had gone quite mad . |
| 14 | It was as if he 'd gone into a different world . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ But Harriet , it sounds as if he has gone into hiding again . |
| 16 | I mean , the light coming from them would be bent — as if it had gone through crinkly glass — like you get in bathroom windows . |
| 17 | ‘ The Libyan desert has become an inferno where the front line moves continuously as if it had gone mad , ’ wrote Monelli , an Italian war correspondent . |
| 18 | It looked as if it had gone straight over the side and into the valley . |
| 19 | drinking his beer as if it had gone flat , she thought , seeing him before he saw her . |
| 20 | The Damsel certainly sounds as if it has gone blind through an undetermined infection . |
| 21 | I had also agreed to load up out of sight , though within easy walking distance , of villages — it would be as as if I had gone into the villages for supplies , but this way meant that I would n't attract anyone 's attention . |
| 22 | And it 's not as if I 've gone off it within myself . |
| 23 | Then I bought , yeah , I said I feel as if I 've gone deaf you know what I mean , cos there 's no |
| 24 | It always looks as if I 've gone along with a sort of scalpel at the bottom of the letters as well , a sort of shaved off |
| 25 | I almost feel as if I have gone on getting to know and understand her after she died , and have done my mourning as I go , whereas with my father the relationship was perfect and complete and ended with his death . ' |
| 26 | After Sandwich it was just as if you 'd gone deaf — no spectator noise , only four people watching ! |
| 27 | It 's as if you 'd gone out into the bigger world and found out that it 's frightening or that it hurts , so you go home . |