Example sentences of "i as [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they appeared to me as if seen through the wrong end of a telescope , muted and unreal . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He just looked at me as if to say ‘ how did you know I was doing that ? ’ |
| 4 | I just stood there solid as a rock and this feller looked at me as if to say , ‘ For two pins … ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | But he 's started looking at me as if to say , ‘ Perhaps she does understand after all . ’ ' |
| 8 | In the morning , barely conscious , he turned to his wife " and looked at me as if to say " I 've done it " " . |
| 9 | Now well I 'm sitting there , Robert 's my customer and like I 'm sitting there and he comes out with this fabulous spiel , right , as this objection , right , that was word perfect and he 's sitting there after he 's finished it as smug as anything and looking at me as if to say so what are you gon na do about that then ? |
| 10 | Anyway I 'll , I 'll just finish er telling you this , so Robert 's then sitting back smug with himself and looking at me as if to say what do you think about then , and I 'm thinking I 've heard these words before , where have I heard these words before |
| 11 | I 'll never forget that I will never forget that , I had , I 'll told my mum like that we I told my mum we 'd be sleeping over and she said that was alright and she sort of looked at me as if to say mm , yes will Helena 's brother be there ? |
| 12 | So she looked at me as if to say well I have n't got one at all . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | Mandeville was staring at me as if trying to read my thoughts . |
| 15 | Mr Hobbs gazed at me as if fascinated . |
| 16 | The other pair looked at me as if to apologise and we began to talk . |