Example sentences of "as [conj] i be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then why do I always feel as if I am falling off the edge of a cliff ? |
| 2 | Neighbours and friends tell me that when I am racing you can hear the noise right down the street ; it is as if I am running in Dad 's front room ! |
| 3 | He said that it was like taking dictation , ‘ as if I was ghosting for another man ’ . |
| 4 | Other times , it is as if I was writing about someone else . |
| 5 | We began to discuss what should be done and how I would manage to support the children , and if , from time to time , I had the feeling that something was wrong , it was only in a distant , elusive way , as if I was listening to someone playing a piano on the other side of the road and hearing occasionally , but only occasionally , a wrong note . |
| 6 | It was fascinating , I felt as if I was learning about another world . |
| 7 | These , however , have to co-exist next to real lulus like , ‘ Being a mole I felt as if I was living on burrowed time . ’ |
| 8 | And when the great beast stopped to answer a call of nature , I felt as if I was sitting astride Mount Pinatubo . |
| 9 | I return to the Island as if I was going on evening shift : catch a 188 to Greenwich Church Street , cross the harbour beside the Cutty Sark , slip under the river through the Foot Tunnel . |
| 10 | I did as I was told and flopped down on a chair , but it gradually got worse and worse , and I felt as if I was going to be sick . |
| 11 | as if I was going to be sick . |
| 12 | I did n't feel as if I was gon na succeed at all . |
| 13 | It 's as if I was talking to somebody . |
| 14 | This made me feel a quite genuine shame and remorse although — it was as if I was torn into two separate parts both rationally and emotionally — I knew that hurt bewilderment was something I should beware of : he was my enemy who would use any art to outwit me if I could . |
| 15 | The nurse called my name ; I walked into the consulting room , flashing a worn , mechanical smile , but feeling as if I was walking onto the stage at the National without my trousers . |
| 16 | ‘ It was a wonderful feeling — as if I was walking on air . ’ |
| 17 | He 's making it sound as if I was stretched on a couch , locked in a room with a ‘ Do not disturb ’ sign on the door while Sir Matt , the doc and a priest I have certainly never met , got to work straightening me out , socially , medically and religiously . |
| 18 | But it 's also a personal thing : I do n't want to look as if I 'm jumping on a green bandwagon , It 's what I feel . |
| 19 | And it does n't look as if I 'm going to be able to either , thought Donna irritably . |
| 20 | quite keen , well it is n't as if I 'm gon na stay for a year , he 's sort of thinking sort of you know going out there to work and I |
| 21 | Dalgliesh thought : Why is he behaving as if I need tactful handling , as if I 'm suffering from a private grief ? |
| 22 | They change the subject when they find I do n't have any , as if I 'm suffering from a disease . ’ |
| 23 | When I returned to Moose Jaw about mid-August I had a long talk with Fred Workman , who told me he had noticed a certain restlessness in me as if I were hoping for a change of scene . |
| 24 | I felt as if I were drowning in sleep . |
| 25 | So Shitvolumes started preparing his next show as if I were going to be in it , until one day , just before The Jungle Book was about to go up , he came into the dressing room . |
| 26 | My heart was behaving as if I were going before a judge . |
| 27 | It was as if I were surrounded by snarling dogs held back by chains . |
| 28 | There was no sandy beach , and as this part of the bay was an inlet , I felt as if I were standing beside a great lake , not the Atlantic Ocean . |
| 29 | My feet almost disappeared in it ; it looked as if I were paddling in muddy water . |
| 30 | As Anwar and I had these conversations Jamila liked to open the door to the store-room and just point the black barrel-ends of her eyes at me as if I were sitting with Eichmann . |