Example sentences of "[v-ing] as [conj] she [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nicolo had flung his head back ; he was laughing as if she had just told the world 's funniest joke . |
| 2 | Sue sat quietly and smiled while this was happening as if she had nothing to do with the incident . |
| 3 | I found her bustling about with a feather duster looking as if she 'd been up for hours . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Lalage looked into her drink , swirling and looking as if she saw money in the bottom of her glass . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She was n't acting as if she felt ill . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Oh yes , ’ she said vaguely , sounding as if she 'd got her valium tablets on optic . |
| 9 | ‘ What happened was surely not his fault , ’ he said , continuing as if she had n't spoken . |
| 10 | Christie sat in the dock yesterday gently nodding as if she agreed with the judges ' decision to increase her sentence by 80 per cent . |
| 11 | Now wide awake , and breathing as if she had been running , she put her hand up to her brow and knew that the cold wetness she felt was sweat not blood . |
| 12 | She stuck her chin in the air and glared — underneath shaking as if she had an ague . |
| 13 | She was feeling as if she 'd made a long , exhausting hike instead of just the kilometre or so that she 'd actually walked , but it was n't a bad feeling . |
| 14 | ‘ What 's wrong , Dana ? ’ she asked , feeling as if she had run a mile instead of just a few feet . |
| 15 | Gina went down the stairs feeling as if she had been reading someone 's letters , or had been forced to eavesdrop on a conversation she did n't want to hear . |
| 16 | Although she was not suicidal the therapist agreed that she might have been feeling as if she wanted to die at the time of the overdose . |