Example sentences of "[v-ing] as if [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | My heart was thumping as if I had run a race and there was a pain in my back . |
| 3 | Nicolo had flung his head back ; he was laughing as if she had just told the world 's funniest joke . |
| 4 | Sue sat quietly and smiled while this was happening as if she had nothing to do with the incident . |
| 5 | They all wait for him to go on , while appearing as if they do not care whether he goes on or not . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | with that picture of Speed , rodders and Macca looking as if they have orgasamed . |
| 14 | He was nodding , looking as if he understood . |
| 15 | Joe appeared , looking as if he 'd just finished knocking the Army into shape , and the Navy as well . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Eric Verrico was the one who most frequently posed , for , looking as if he had stepped out of a Caravaggio , he was the most beautiful of Johnny 's Circus . |
| 18 | Of similar vintage I can recall Billy Lane turning up for an open match on the Swadlincote waters , looking as if he had just stepped out of a time warp . |
| 19 | Walker always looked at home until his move to Italy sapped his self-belief and left the normally swift-heeled defender looking as if he had feet of clay . |
| 20 | The film , a polished study of the early days of Lucky Luciano and his fellow hoodlums , is not so much The Godfather as The Godchild , as Christian Slater — looking as if he has n't started shaving yet — sets out with three cherubic buddies to conquer New York 's Lower East Side . |
| 21 | But he did see that his usually tough , self-sufficient male parent was , for once , looking as if he needed bolstering up . |
| 22 | I found her bustling about with a feather duster looking as if she 'd been up for hours . |
| 23 | At the end of the ceremony she tottered off to the bus , looking as if she had every intention of popping in to the local when she got home and livening everyone up with a steady dropping of ‘ To think our ‘ Ilda should go before me ’ remarks . |
| 24 | Lalage looked into her drink , swirling and looking as if she saw money in the bottom of her glass . |
| 25 | A scrawny boy , his hand wrapped up in a bloodstained rag , his clothes caked in mud , who looked sicker than some of her patients , and the pale , sullen girl who stood over by the teatrolley , shifting awkwardly from one foot to the other and looking as if she did n't have a brain in her head . |
| 26 | Yet you 're looking as if you 've lost a bit off your back . |
| 27 | Oh yeah , looking as if you know the business |
| 28 | ‘ Damn it , stop looking as if I 've just hit you again ! |
| 29 | All the time he 's writing as if he 'd seen her undressing , but there 's something just a bit more theatrical about the last two . ’ |
| 30 | Corbett took his seat , trying to ignore de Craon who was grinning as if he had suddenly found something amusing . |