Example sentences of "[verb] as [adj] [conj] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bicker was there , looking as tired as if he and not they had been riding and fighting in the past three days . |
| 2 | She turned abruptly into the fitting-room and after a very short time reappeared , looking as perfect as if she had spent hours dressing instead of minutes . |
| 3 | She knew immediately that Roman 's mood had changed ; he was looking as grim as when they had first met , but he said nothing as they got into the car . |
| 4 | As it happened , Clara was wrong , but she was not to know she was wrong , and she suffered as much as though she had been right . |
| 5 | Because she was tired of looking at flats that were really bedsits , and bedsits that were really cupboards , but cost as much as if they had been flats . |
| 6 | Peter Naulls and he , searching for the hole into the mine , had got as suntanned as if they had been on the kind of holiday they never had , on the beaches of Spain or Italy . |
| 7 | I think the key to it has been in the past that if we can establish a platform with the front five and get our back row really involved with the support play that they can produce , Bath going backwards certainly do n't look as strong as when they are coming at us . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The walls were maroon and the carpet was purple and the effect was expensive , but Lee felt as depressed as if she had found herself in the smelly hallway of a neglected and deprived residence . |
| 10 | She dreaded being immobile and physically dependent , and she certainly felt as if heavy weights were attached to her feet and her legs ; she felt as helpless as if she were buried to her neck in quicksand . |
| 11 | Just for a moment he looked as shaken as if her innocent words had been a knife thrust . |
| 12 | Washed in shadow he looked as mysterious as when she first met him . |
| 13 | When we chatted , Hastings looked as composed as if he 'd just spent the afternoon at his office rather than sending Wales homeward to Cardiff to think again . |
| 14 | And the buildings looked as derelict as if they had all been lifted by some force and dropped again . |
| 15 | An argument could even be made that a prisoner who emerges from prison with a reasonable sum of money is less likely to recidivate than one who emerges as impecunious as when he or she entered . |
| 16 | Too stunned to be furious , Maggie sat and after a few seconds of close and silent scrutiny Devlin Parnham sat too , facing her across a magnificent Persian rug , with the fire banked as high as if it were mid-winter . |
| 17 | His expression remained as unchanged as if she 'd never spoken , and she was gripped all over again by a longing to shatter that icy exterior . |
| 18 | He rose to his feet , making it clear the question was rhetorical , as Gina , feeling as humiliated as if he had actually slapped her face , tried to hide her chagrin by swallowing the remains of her coffee . |