Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone who did n't know him would turn up their nose , looking down on him , but Clary would only laugh as if he enjoyed it . |
| 2 | I waited , but he had stopped as if he thought he had said it all . |
| 3 | If he publishes untrue defamatory matter recklessly , without considering or caring whether it be true or not , he is in this , as in other branches of the law , treated as if he knew it to be false . |
| 4 | In the light of their two powerful flashlights visibility was all that could be wished for and it took them only two minutes to carry out their examination : unless one is looking for some obscure mechanical fault there is very little to look for in an engine-room . |
| 5 | Miserable wheatears looked as if they wished they had stayed in Africa . |
| 6 | ‘ It has failed , ’ he said , then suddenly looked as if he wished he had bitten his tongue . |
| 7 | ‘ Looks as if he took it off . |
| 8 | Certainly looks as if he did I mean he did n't give any other indication . |
| 9 | ‘ How long were you driving for after they took you away from the family ? ’ |
| 10 | And if anybody says you should be calling him Uncle Adam you can say no I do n't need to because he told me I did n't alright ? |
| 11 | But shoppers differed on whether they thought it was good news . |
| 12 | Anyway , he gave them a few examples of the jobs he was looking for and they told him he was unqualified . |
| 13 | Like this , you see looking for and I said she 's gone on a bike ride ! |
| 14 | I knew roughly what I was looking for and I found it on the floor under a seat frame from which the seat had been removed . |
| 15 | What about the Halal meat , in this county where three years ago we had a meeting and they decided that animals that were slaughtered without being stunned with sheer terror , who are allowed to bleed to death because this is what a particular group believed in and we did it . |
| 16 | ‘ They 'd get done in if they did it 'ere , ’ said Nancy , using her healthy roundness to expel herself from the jammed-up doorway . |
| 17 | " I love the idea of that sort of gift , because it 's so special and you always remember where it came from and who gave it to you . " |
| 18 | Hilda must have known all about it , so it just depends on whether she thought she could reform him , or whether she were content to take him as he was . ’ |
| 19 | Round and round , and back again , everything spins around , passing by if you missed it the first time . |
| 20 | He assumed , however , that rather than evolving over the ages to suit their environment , they had been ‘ ready-made ’ by God to the perfect design needed for where He placed them . |
| 21 | He did not look as if he meant it . |
| 22 | But you would n't have done it quite you would have thought about whether you did it , whereas the moment you 've been forced to do it because of the cuts that have been forced upon us by the Poll Tax capping . |
| 23 | ‘ It does n't sound as if you liked him that much . ’ |
| 24 | If MacArthur had acted as if he thought he was Napoleon , John Foster Dulles , a bleak , remote and charmless human being , acted as if he was , at least , another St Paul . |
| 25 | There are a few like myself , who look as if they wished they were n't there , and would like to get the whole thing over as quickly as possible . |
| 26 | He had shown interest in her work and talked as if he took it seriously . |
| 27 | He had n't got the information I was waiting for but he rang me back at about a quarter to ten . |
| 28 | I shuffled into the room got out of the doorway and the light was turned on , I ca n't remember with whether I turned it on or whether P C turned it on . |
| 29 | Develop a strict feeding routine from the outset following the guidelines which the puppy has previously been used to before you acquired it . |
| 30 | Edouard , moved by her words , lifted his hand gently to touch her arm and , to his horror , she flinched as if she expected him to hit her . |