Example sentences of "[pers pn] as if [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looks to me as if we 've forgotten how to retreat . |
| 2 | ‘ It looks to me as if someone tried to murder him , ’ whispered Dexter as an afterword . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | I did see him , though , standing , looking after me as if he 'd been struck , very quiet , very separate . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Cretin ’ , he glared at me as if I 'd said it . |
| 8 | As I got up Terry looked at me as if I 'd just announced I had a private income . |
| 9 | ( He gawped at me as if I 'd told him to swim the Atlantic . ) |
| 10 | The big one looked down at me as if I 'd just crawled out from under . |
| 11 | He looked at me as if I 'd crawled out from under the Axminster . |
| 12 | a very uncomfortable thing for me occurred — There were quite enough queens to register Casanova impotent , and yet every one of them shied away from me as if I had the plague . |
| 13 | The letter announcing my visit lay unopened on the mat when she opened the door , and an hour later I came away believing that I admired a woman who could , under these circumstances and in some pain , treat me as if I had just stepped round the corner for a packet of tea ten minutes before , and talk to me about this and that , and nothing at all . |
| 14 | Tessa looked at me as if I had said something odd . |
| 15 | One of them kisses me as if I had won a prize for the most amusing and far-fetched story of the evening . |
| 16 | He looked at me as if I had trodden in something on the way in . |
| 17 | and there was a girl on and she said what is a bolster case and when I tried to explain to her she looked at me as if I lived in the ark and that was going back twenty years ago . |
| 18 | ‘ We talked about it , ’ said Jenny , ‘ because I told him frankly that I was in love with Jamie , and he looked at me as if I needed my head examined ! ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Do n't look at me as if I worked here , ’ she said . |
| 20 | yeah , well I was there the other day and erm the bell went and nobody sort of moved and I thought I think , I know , you know , so I got up and I washed me cup of tea like , you know , they looked at me as if you know oh there 's a keen , but I mean I do think it 's important to do that , because not only that it 's not fair for the |
| 21 | Oh , it sounds to me as if you miss the days when there was a bit more action on , |
| 22 | ‘ Does n't sound to me as if you made it up , ’ Culley said . |
| 23 | And it looks to me as if you do , too ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Because when you came out of that theatre party , despite singing our song so wonderfully , you looked at me as if you did n't know me . ’ |
| 25 | At Ångelholm , we were joined by two more people , a grim-looking older woman all in black , who looked as if she had n't smiled since 1937 and who spent the entire journey watching me as if she had seen my face on a wanted poster , and by a fastidious older man who I guessed to be a recently retired schoolmaster and took an instant dislike to . |
| 26 | Everyone , including the Indians , seemed to be happy and laughing , and in my surly mood I unkindly wished them all in hell — chiefly because no one was in any hurry to serve me and I had to sit and watch a party at the next table consume a feast that looked to me as if it had issued straight from Nirvana , before I was even shown a menu . |
| 27 | Cecilia turned the pages of her address book , she turned them slowly , she scrutinized them as if they fascinated her . |
| 28 | In fact Major Wiseman 's letter preserves an inaccurate memory — not surprising after so long — of the actual circumstances , for it conflates the events of twelve days and relates them as if they had happened on the same night . |
| 29 | But the eastern Europeans have tried to put the past four decades behind them as if they had never existed . |
| 30 | Old Joseph was glad he kept the Christmas cards from his son and daughter in 1987 , for every year since then he has taken them out and displayed them as if they had come in with the post . |