Example sentences of "[vb past] as [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eyes bulged as if they were coming out of his head . |
| 2 | Despite adequate possession , Leicester had rarely threatened to pierce a Tranmere defence who fought as if they were also involved in the top of the table excitement . |
| 3 | When Alexei Sultanov , a nineteen-year-old from the USSR , was finally declared the winner , he rushed up on stage and lifted his trophy over his head and yipped with glee and the people of Fort Worth stood and clapped as if they had been seized with divine ecstasy . |
| 4 | It was made more so by the billing he got as if it was the Second Coming or something and he was going to be a wonder player . |
| 5 | Iris glowed as if she had received a personal compliment . |
| 6 | He could see sorrow in the dark eyes which glowed as if there were candles burning behind them . |
| 7 | Mr Plant and his wife and children were there , but when he met Mrs Gedge face to face near the hoopla they passed as if they were strangers . |
| 8 | But he merely looked embarrassed and said : ‘ Oh — hi ! ’ as he passed as if she was just a casual acquaintance . |
| 9 | When in the course of my explanation I mentioned the word pagan , he jerked as if he were on the end of a wire . |
| 10 | Groaning as if in physical pain , she rocked herself back and forth in her chair — her teeth bared as if she was grimacing at some diabolical joke . |
| 11 | Patterson 's eyes flickered as if I 'd given him a straw to grasp , but I pressed on . |
| 12 | Yet this stranger had a different manner altogether from the old doctor who , when he had n't his hearing aid in place , shouted as if it were you who were deaf . |
| 13 | Just as they approached the doors , he stopped as if he had suddenly come to a decision . |
| 14 | He moved as if he had bags of sugar tied to his ankles . |
| 15 | And this could never be real , this never could be happening to her , walking on the white squares behind Finn , who moved as if he did not set his feet to the ground , so gracefully , so uncannily . |
| 16 | She moved as if she were in a dream , wading through viscous liquid . |
| 17 | She invited help and then behaved towards those who helped as if they were incompetent or , like her mother , were taking over . |
| 18 | After putting a trial foot several times in the river , Harriet launched herself and swam as if she had been used to water all her life . |
| 19 | The meal that accompanied it was a feast , cooked and served by the patronne with justifiable pride : tiny moules marinières , which tasted as if they had been cut from the rocks that morning ; bifteck , brown and crisp on the outside , perfectly rare within ; a platter of thin crisp sizzling hot pommes frites ; an excellent salad , served in a plain white bowl . |
| 20 | All her attention was on her first bite of bread which tasted as if it had come straight from Paradise . |
| 21 | Next day we were visited by a pod of dolphins which behaved as if they had escaped from a circus . |
| 22 | He behaved as if they were insects . |
| 23 | McConnell claimed that the cannibal worms behaved as if they remembered the conditioned response their food had learned , whereas worms allowed to cannibalize other , untrained worms showed no such change in behaviour . |
| 24 | No other manufacturer would be so profligate in their use of fabric but the Ashleys behaved as if they had fabric to spare . |
| 25 | Instead they took refuge in the weaker claim that agents , on average over time , behaved as if they possessed the correct underlying model for the purposes of prediction . |
| 26 | Frank did n't apologize and Philip behaved as if nothing had happened . |
| 27 | I said he 'd probably have the curtains drawn and the place would smell of joss-sticks , but if she behaved as if nothing was out of the ordinary , all would be fine . |
| 28 | Back again , he behaved as if nothing had happened . |
| 29 | He said nothing to me about my fears for my sanity and behaved as if what we were doing were a common exercise , undertaken for purely scientific purposes . |
| 30 | You two behaved as if we were still in the sticks . |