Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [prep] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She took his wrist between thumb and forefinger , and held his hand up between them as if gripping a putrid fish by the tail . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | to look after him , but in the school holidays , you know , it takes two of you to and mind him , because |
| 4 | When he had n't moved , one of the humans had fetched a box out of the back of the truck and crept towards him as if expecting Masklin to explode . |
| 5 | At the sound of her approach , their heads swivelled towards her as if pulled by strings , their expressions transfixed by astonishment and alarm . |
| 6 | " He 's a horrible person , " Kate cried with renewed vehemence , and looked behind her as if contemplating a continuation of her assault . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The eagle was clinging with his talons to the wall of the old female 's cage and seemed to be looking into it as if to work out where she had gone . |
| 9 | The light leaps and spits inside her as if trying to escape . |
| 10 | Ruth knew there was something strange about him , but it seemed to take her an age to work out what it was : he was wearing a green cloak , and its folds drifted round him as if floating in water . |
| 11 | The lathes were serviced with a light oil film , draped in it as if to give them an overcoat protection that would ensure their survival against age and wear . |
| 12 | As the Men carried Minch away Creggan looked desperately about him as if to seek out some inspiration for the action and sign of hope that her final words had seemed to wish to invoke . |
| 13 | We emerged from the shadow of the station into the bright light of noon , and Daffodil Quentin under her sunburst of curls made an entrance from the dome car end , looking about her as if accustomed to people leaping up to help . |
| 14 | But they appeared to me as if seen through the wrong end of a telescope , muted and unreal . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The mare 's breathing was heavy and distressed and she kept turning her head round to him as if asking him for help . |
| 17 | He and his sister stood on either side of the bed , bending over her as if to protect her from the perils of the night with their own flesh and bone . |
| 18 | He slid a disturbing glance over her as if testing the truth of her vehemence . |
| 19 | While frank HM opener ‘ Swivelhead ’ tears the teeth out your gaping mouth , ‘ Candy Deceit ’ slows the whole thing down to ‘ Drowners ’ speed , daring confetti to rain down on us as if to finalise the effect . |
| 20 | She coasted through it as if dreaming buoyed by a strange mixture of anticipation and dread . |
| 21 | Aunt Louise 's eyes were over-bright and she tried to pass her hand across them as if to brush away a cobweb . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | Mandeville was staring at me as if trying to read my thoughts . |
| 24 | Mr Hobbs gazed at me as if fascinated . |
| 25 | He just looked at me as if to say ‘ how did you know I was doing that ? ’ |
| 26 | I just stood there solid as a rock and this feller looked at me as if to say , ‘ For two pins … ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | But he 's started looking at me as if to say , ‘ Perhaps she does understand after all . ’ ' |
| 30 | In the morning , barely conscious , he turned to his wife " and looked at me as if to say " I 've done it " " . |