Example sentences of "[pron] as [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That man , what a funny character , did he treat everyone as if they were in the Army ? |
| 2 | On the Master of the Roll 's reasoning it would appear to me as if nothing can preserve the true character and origin and parentage of the income paid to the beneficiaries through their bankers unless that be done by lodging with those bankers the dividends , share warrants and the like received by the trustees but not cashed . |
| 3 | She stood up as I entered the room , greeting me as if we were in a drawing-room in Chelsea or Gloucestershire and not in prison . |
| 4 | But she was looking at me as if we were long-lost friends . |
| 5 | It looks to me as if we 've forgotten how to retreat . |
| 6 | They both looked at me as if they strongly disapproved of me . |
| 7 | ‘ It looks to me as if someone tried to murder him , ’ whispered Dexter as an afterword . |
| 8 | He stiffened when he saw them and Devlin said cheerfully , ‘ Very pretty , son , but it looks to me as if someone 's been spoiling your good looks . ’ |
| 9 | No one who has heard a 3-year-old , lately able to utter only single words , saying things like ‘ The difficulty with me is , I do n't want to go to bed ’ , or ‘ it looks to me as if my brother has been at it ’ can fail to toy with a Chomskian or Cartesian notion of innate ideas , the deep structures of language being in us from before birth . |
| 10 | Southgate was in his cups though Mandeville looked subdued and stared speculatively at me as if my outburst had revealed a side of my character he had not noticed before . |
| 11 | ‘ It sounded to me as if there was a lot of explosives in the van . |
| 12 | ‘ It looks to me as if there 's some system of getting service that you do n't grasp . ’ |
| 13 | Holland , can to see , look to me as if there were plenty of it when I was there . |
| 14 | It sounds to me as if there are too many people that want to get into Sussex in English , and not so many that wanting to get Chemistry . |
| 15 | He looked at me as if he could not believe his eyes , and a faint , doubtful smile began to move his lips . |
| 16 | He turned his head to stare at me as if he could n't at once comprehend my interest , but then , understanding , said of course I could go if I wanted to . |
| 17 | He looked at me as if he was now wondering quite what it was he had invited into his home . |
| 18 | He looked down at me as if he were a giant and I had just climbed a beanstalk . |
| 19 | A small , dark , intense man with a beard and drooping moustache , who is probably looking at me as if he would like to put daggers in my back ? ’ |
| 20 | He was looking at me as if he really hated me ; he seized me by the shoulders and pushed me over to the bathroom mirror . |
| 21 | I did see him , though , standing , looking after me as if he 'd been struck , very quiet , very separate . |
| 22 | The last time I had seen him , on the night of the fire , he had held my hands , told me I had saved his life , and looked at me as if he loved me . |
| 23 | He pulled me to my feet , and flung his arms around me and squeezed me as if he wanted to gather me right into himself , never let me go , and we stayed like that for a long time , not speaking , rocking to and fro . |
| 24 | He sits in his chair looking at me as if he ai n't scared . |
| 25 | Honestly , it sounded to me as if he was giving them all some kind of ultimatum . ’ |
| 26 | The bastard smiled evilly at me as if he would have loved to have put a noose round my neck and had me swinging on a branch of the overhanging elm tree . |
| 27 | And the girl who came for him was Young and Insolent and spoke to me as if I were some common washerwoman who must do as she was told which is not in my nature nor never was . |
| 28 | With eyes fixed on me as if I was hypnotisin' him , he takes the papermate out of the tray and moves away as if I might bite . |
| 29 | ‘ Cretin ’ , he glared at me as if I 'd said it . |
| 30 | Since then I am called ‘ Majesty ’ and it seems to me as if I was part of a play . |