Example sentences of "and [v-ing] as if [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Down they came , her two big sons , dark like their father , square and looking as if they had been manufactured by a toy firm to look like younger versions of a father in a game . |
| 2 | In the second panel the same people , considerably sobered and looking as if they had a serious hangover , were being led away by the classic medieval figure of Death , a grisly skeleton in a black robe and cowl , who rather reminded Preston of an old schoolmaster he had known called Mr Pilkington . |
| 3 | Lalage looked into her drink , swirling and looking as if she saw money in the bottom of her glass . |
| 4 | A scrawny boy , his hand wrapped up in a bloodstained rag , his clothes caked in mud , who looked sicker than some of her patients , and the pale , sullen girl who stood over by the teatrolley , shifting awkwardly from one foot to the other and looking as if she did n't have a brain in her head . |
| 5 | His voice sounded thick with hunger , deep and growling as if he wanted more from her . |
| 6 | But within two days she was back at school and behaving as if nothing had happened . ’ |
| 7 | Now wide awake , and breathing as if she had been running , she put her hand up to her brow and knew that the cold wetness she felt was sweat not blood . |