Example sentences of "[v-ing] as [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her body arched like the curve of a gondola 's prow , her eyes flashing as if they were fashioned from steel . |
| 2 | Well , I accused you of reacting as if I was a leper . |
| 3 | Now , for reasons she still could n't fully fathom , she was lifting curtains to reveal all to a man who was , in truth , little more than a stranger — and he was reacting as if he were a long-lost brother . |
| 4 | This involves stimulating a female cat that is on heat with a glass rod , so that her body is fooled into reacting as if she has been mated by a tom-cat . |
| 5 | My heart was thumping as if I had run a race and there was a pain in my back . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's a manager , your dad , is n't he ? ’ asked Jamie Shepherd a few minutes later as they bounced round a corner with the old van rattling as if it was going to shake itself to bits at any moment . |
| 7 | Nicolo had flung his head back ; he was laughing as if she had just told the world 's funniest joke . |
| 8 | Sue sat quietly and smiled while this was happening as if she had nothing to do with the incident . |
| 9 | They all wait for him to go on , while appearing as if they do not care whether he goes on or not . |
| 10 | His paintings were rather angular , with the nose , in particular , appearing as if it was glued to the canvas in an echo of Cubism . |
| 11 | At the end of one hour her back was aching as if it had been kicked all over by a mule ; but she went on doggedly , though it soon became absolute agony . |
| 12 | Mrs Zamzam listed the villages through which she travelled — Al Naher , Al Kabil , Al Nahalie , Tashiha and Al Dear — and then she fell into a kind of swoon , wailing as if she was mourning a husband or son and holding her hands to her face . |
| 13 | But she was shaking all over , shivering as if it were a winter 's night . |
| 14 | It was an effort to move their legs but just possible , and they edged forward , past Mr Chan and Steve , past a couple of policemen — all looking as if their real selves were somewhere else and only their bodies were on Monument Hill , held immobile just as the cars were . |
| 15 | All sounds were muffled except the song of the birds and the pigeons were puffed up , looking as if they were wearing greatcoats , as they waited for the generous breakfast which they knew Jane would bring out to them . |
| 16 | Shelves lined the walls on which stood magical pots — organic , looking as if they 'd grown rather than been made , with the colours of the trees , the earth and the sea merging in the glaze . |
| 17 | The Feldwebel had not moved and I looked all the way up his black leather jack-boots and the thin grey greatcoat with its cheap tin buttons looking as if they had come out of a Christmas pudding before I noticed that his eyes were slightly open and that he was watching me with an uncle 's amusement . |
| 18 | Then the inner office , even more discreetly sumptuous , and two more smooth bitches , secretaries this time , both looking as if they had starch in their well-bred pants . |
| 19 | When they turn up at the office next day looking as if they 've missed out on their sleep , however , they could get more than teasing comments from their colleagues . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | All bright young things , on their way up , or looking as if they were , with their murderers and their mercenaries and their adulterers . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | As so often , it is the monstrous ones that stick in the mind : two gross , splayed pairs of legs about to join the rest of the body they belong to in the maw of two amiable-looking man-eaters ( reminiscent of Oloron ) ; two horribly bent captives , their feet tied by a cord and their heads looking as if they are propped upright on sticks — strange motifs , yet motifs all the same , because they are not unique to Lescar . |
| 24 | The entrance through the surrounding wall stood high and splendid , arched in the Spanish manner , and the vast wrought-iron gates stood open , ready to close behind them and looking as if they would . |
| 25 | The nervous tension of dodging and ducking about a sky crowded with equally dodging and ducking planes , some firing , some looking as if they might fire at any instant , some sheering wildly away to avoid a collision ; and all the time trying to grab a quick shot at a mere point of light : all this brought back the strain of combat , when you were pressed on by the excitement of chasing the enemy , pulled back by the horror of shooting a friend , and periodically shaken with fright by the thought that at any second you might be cut in two . |
| 26 | with that picture of Speed , rodders and Macca looking as if they have orgasamed . |
| 27 | They were both standing behind the counter looking as if they were n't quite sure what to do next . |
| 28 | Note the lively sculpture of the roof line , one figure looking as if he is smoking a hubble-bubble or earning his living as a snake charmer : in fact he is a fireman ! |
| 29 | Once the lids of the outer case and the leaden shell had been removed , the workman prised off the lid of the inner coffin ; the slightly yellowed silk sheets were drawn back and there lay the body of the child , looking as if he had gone off to sleep but a few moments before . |
| 30 | But he did see that his usually tough , self-sufficient male parent was , for once , looking as if he needed bolstering up . |