Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they appeared to me as if seen through the wrong end of a telescope , muted and unreal . |
| 2 | His face goes white , then red , and he raises his fist to me as if to hit me , thinks better of it , pushes his nose in the air and his voice down to his boots . |
| 3 | He just looked at me as if to say ‘ how did you know I was doing that ? ’ |
| 4 | I just stood there solid as a rock and this feller looked at me as if to say , ‘ For two pins … ’ |
| 5 | He 'd got up , and he was looking at me as if to say Coming ? supposing he was the kind of normal person who said that kind of thing . |
| 6 | I 'm the company secretary , so it was essential that I was there and , as our timetables kept being shifted , I could see Martin looking at me as if to say is she going to make it ? |
| 7 | But he 's started looking at me as if to say , ‘ Perhaps she does understand after all . ’ ' |
| 8 | In the morning , barely conscious , he turned to his wife " and looked at me as if to say " I 've done it " " . |
| 9 | Now well I 'm sitting there , Robert 's my customer and like I 'm sitting there and he comes out with this fabulous spiel , right , as this objection , right , that was word perfect and he 's sitting there after he 's finished it as smug as anything and looking at me as if to say so what are you gon na do about that then ? |
| 10 | Anyway I 'll , I 'll just finish er telling you this , so Robert 's then sitting back smug with himself and looking at me as if to say what do you think about then , and I 'm thinking I 've heard these words before , where have I heard these words before |
| 11 | I 'll never forget that I will never forget that , I had , I 'll told my mum like that we I told my mum we 'd be sleeping over and she said that was alright and she sort of looked at me as if to say mm , yes will Helena 's brother be there ? |
| 12 | So she looked at me as if to say well I have n't got one at all . |
| 13 | Sometimes he grunted at me as if trying to get me to say something , but always I had to give him the same classroom answer : ‘ Ich verstehe nicht . ’ |
| 14 | Mandeville was staring at me as if trying to read my thoughts . |
| 15 | Mr Hobbs gazed at me as if fascinated . |
| 16 | The other pair looked at me as if to apologise and we began to talk . |
| 17 | You waited outside in the street for up to two hours , and then , when you got to the box office , the passes were heaped in no known order , and Tory office girls scrabbled through piles of them as if digging for hidden bones . |
| 18 | Below them were straight roads ridged above the fields , with villages strung along them as if clinging to the security of high ground ; isolated farms with their roofs so low that they looked half submerged in the peat ; an occasional church tower standing majestically apart from its village with the gravestones planted round it like crooked teeth . |
| 19 | Aunt Louise 's eyes were over-bright and she tried to pass her hand across them as if to brush away a cobweb . |
| 20 | Shadows moved all around them as if coming to life . |
| 21 | The four khthons pushed them as if hurrying to return to safety behind the walls of the castle . |
| 22 | She took his wrist between thumb and forefinger , and held his hand up between them as if gripping a putrid fish by the tail . |
| 23 | Use is to check yours over and eliminate any you find . |
| 24 | Francis and Christopher dissolved in laughter , lapped theirs up and declared it very good . |
| 25 | he may be eligible to be on a training course , for what we do n't know , but er after you 've been unemployed six months you are either required to or you have the opportunity to , or you can go on a state training course but what they train you for or to do we , we have n't actually got defined yet . |
| 26 | He looked at you as if to say Jees ! |
| 27 | to look after him , but in the school holidays , you know , it takes two of you to and mind him , because |
| 28 | John , two years ago we invited you to and introduced you to the Chamber of Commons , among other places , as a modern trade union leader . |
| 29 | A confirmed five-string user , John agrees to try the Pedulla , adding that he 's really no fan of Bartolini pickups , having tried them before and found them not to his taste . |
| 30 | Tim Pollard , the Marketing Director , even extended the courtesy of collecting me from and returning me to Birmingham Airport . |