Example sentences of "[verb] as [conj] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " 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 | Sue sat quietly and smiled while this was happening as if she had nothing to do with the incident . |
| 5 | Miserable wheatears looked as if they wished they had stayed in Africa . |
| 6 | Even Gerard , whom she probably suspected the least , looked as if he had something to hide . |
| 7 | ‘ It has failed , ’ he said , then suddenly looked as if he wished he had bitten his tongue . |
| 8 | He looked down at her , and for a moment looked as if he regretted his actions . |
| 9 | ‘ Looks as if he took it off . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , it looks as if he did what he was told after all . |
| 11 | Certainly looks as if he did I mean he did n't give any other indication . |
| 12 | But Patrick was acting as if he lived her kind of life , which indeed he had once . |
| 13 | Einzig was so frequently seen in Minton 's company that to outsiders it seemed as if she became his other half . |
| 14 | No one spoke to her , but she did not look as if she expected anyone to do so . |
| 15 | Nor did she dare ask for privacy , because to do so would look as if she had something to hide — which in fact she did . |
| 16 | He did not look as if he meant it . |
| 17 | ‘ It does n't sound as if you liked him that much . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He had shown interest in her work and talked as if he took it seriously . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ It sounds as if you enjoyed it , ’ she said , leading him across the room . |
| 23 | And from what she tells me , it sounds as if you handled everything pretty well . |
| 24 | ‘ Good Lord , he wrote books too : Foreign Debt : A Paupr 's Promise , not exactly a snappy title but it sounds as if he saw something the New York banks did n't and The Credit of Faith . ’ |
| 25 | She swallowed as if it caused her pain , her face screwed up . |
| 26 | He 'd spoken as if he thought she was in the habit of collecting fiancés and engagement-rings . |
| 27 | His gaze was very direct , but somehow managed to encompass her whole body , make her feel as if he saw her semi-naked again , vulnerable and furious , the way he had last night … |
| 28 | ‘ He feels as if you played him for a fool . |
| 29 | Abruptly , the dark head was bent to hers again , the compulsive brush of his lips against the side of her neck so searing it felt as if they grazed her skin . |
| 30 | I had no friends , I felt as if I had nobody . " |