Example sentences of "as if he [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His voice was croaked and hoarse and his shocked stare came to rest on David as if he instinctively knew he was a doctor . |
| 2 | It was as if he just wanted to show off , or something . |
| 3 | It is beginning to look as if he also carries within him a seed of self-destruction . |
| 4 | That might intensify that odd look of sympathy on his face , as if he already knew it meant something to her , when it meant nothing to him . |
| 5 | His voice was low and deep , vibrant with a hard-held patience , as if he already sensed the latent protest in the way she 'd breathed his name . |
| 6 | as if he suddenly wanted to return the girls ' favour on this Monaghan Day , he spoke to them openly about the war for the first time in their lives . |
| 7 | as if he suddenly did n't want to be here at all . |
| 8 | ‘ as if he only happens to be with us by accident and could just as easily be amusing himself at some other job elsewhere . ’ |
| 9 | But the house , one of the rare examples of Sir John Soane 's domestic architecture , was pictured in so many books on the capital 's buildings that its elegant eccentricity was as familiar to him as if he commonly walked these streets and squares . |
| 10 | It made her feel as if he still had some sort of claim over her , and she really hated and resented that . |
| 11 | The ensuing conversation was unintelligible to Gina but it was very noticeable that her abrasive host never removed his gaze from her expectant face , as if he still harboured doubts about her purpose there , and , if his deepening frown was anything to judge from , the news was n't going to be good . |
| 12 | Christopher 's serious childish voice , making that odd little pause between words , as if he still needed to think of them . |
| 13 | It 's as if he still lives there , so when I go past I look up at the window I 'd put him in . |
| 14 | Robert Dexter 's eyes were shrewd in understanding as he returned her look , but it seemed as if he too realised the wisdom of not putting thoughts into words . |
| 15 | ‘ But the coronation of whom , my lady ? ’ enquired the prince , as if he too had accepted that she was indeed the lady Anne . |
| 16 | He let her go as if he too had been dragged down by past memories . |
| 17 | And , just as if he too suspected her caller was Travis , he had taken the diabolical liberty of answering her door himself . |
| 18 | He 'd sounded as if he really believed in Angelica 's death . |
| 19 | He spoke anxiously , as if he really cared about this , and I thought : what a nice man he is . |
| 20 | It was as if he really had struck her , then . |
| 21 | as if he really needed to know … |
| 22 | He was looking at me as if he really hated me ; he seized me by the shoulders and pushed me over to the bathroom mirror . |
| 23 | Who the hell did he think he was , sitting there as if he really did own the place , stuffing his face with food , its aroma making her stomach cry out — but , worst of all , trying to destroy her new future ? |
| 24 | He talked as if he never thought in words and had to invent them to describe the shapeless , bulky concepts in his mind as he went along . |
| 25 | He was acting so strangely , as if he never had suspected her of being a thief , nor followed her doggedly . |
| 26 | One minute he was kissing her as if he never wanted it to stop , and the next he was trying to protect her in some cryptic , jaded way from a danger that seemed clear to him but was a mystery to her . |
| 27 | But only dimly , since she was wrapped in Lucenzo 's arms , and he was madly kissing her face and muttering loving words , holding her as if he never intended to let her go , his face now showing all he felt for her ; his undying love . |
| 28 | Like many tall men , he had a perpetually upright , weary look , as if he usually slept leaning in a corner . |
| 29 | It was all she was prepared to say on the subject and he nodded as if he quite expected that . |
| 30 | The people seemed friendly to him as if he often went there . |