Example sentences of "as if he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Angrily , as if he blamed them for his loneliness , he set about his fri ed eggs and bacon . |
| 2 | He had never felt as if he belonged . |
| 3 | It was n't easy , travelling , in those days , but it was n't as if he belonged here anyway . ’ |
| 4 | In this magnificent room , he looked as if he belonged , his face and bearing as noble as any aristocrat 's . |
| 5 | It seemed as if he received a shorter term in jail because he was a doctor . |
| 6 | The old woman stared at him and her eyes were bright and piercing and the silver thimble had fallen to the lap of her dress , and her fists were clenched now as if she searched for a memory , and her husband watched her anxiously as if he witnessed that she was at war within herself . |
| 7 | Midnight briefly intercepted his look , then turned to the side table , exchanging a platter of carved meats for cheesecake , as if he rejected any attempt to penetrate his wall of reserve . |
| 8 | The young king looked serene though Gaunt seemed angry and troubled , as if he resented Cranston 's message . |
| 9 | The lectures which he delivered in America on this visit are not of crucial critical significance and , like other addresses of the same period , they are chiefly remarkable for the fact that he felt able to talk at some length about himself and his work — as if he realized that audiences came to see him , rather than hear anything he might care to say . |
| 10 | It 's almost as if he paces in the corner of the office waiting to get his hands on me — and he gets jealous when I 'm writing about someone else . ’ |
| 11 | In the Concerto especially , both soloist and conductor take the work entirely seriously , and make a substantial case for it as one of the leading Concertos of its time — the days are leaving us at least when Gershwin 's ‘ serious ’ works ( those are n't my scare quotes ) were treated like the fortuitous good fortune of the upstart seven-year-old playing in big brother 's room , as if he composed them by accident . |
| 12 | It was as if he had conceived a latterday , visual version of the sonnet or the haiku . |
| 13 | His head was buried in the sand , hands and feet spread out , as if he had fallen from a great height . ’ |
| 14 | He spoke the words ‘ sherry at six ’ with a hint of menace , rather as if he had said ‘ pistols at dawn ’ . |
| 15 | He just went on saying in a shocked way , as if he had lost his mind , ‘ You 're twenty-five , thirty years old ? |
| 16 | After his speech the conference clapped and cheered as if he had announced the abolition of the income tax . |
| 17 | The Frenchman sat opposite me at the large farmhouse table chatting away for all he was worth and after the meal he puffed away at his pipe as if he had n't a care in the world . |
| 18 | He left behind him the impression — but not as if he had ever meant to say it — that anyone who disagreed with him must really be rather stupid . |
| 19 | And it would seem as if he had always loved men , always and only loved men . |
| 20 | They left the bar , Bodo exchanging farewells as if he had not a care in the world . |
| 21 | And then there were his eyes , burning with a fervour , an intensity , as if he had his prey in his sights . |
| 22 | He looked as if he had been conserving all his energy since then for the moment when he took advantage of an error by Butcher to shoot strongly past Woods . |
| 23 | He looked as if he had been conserving all his energy since then for the moment when he took advantage of an error by Butcher to shoot strongly past Woods . |
| 24 | And Sir Richard Attenborough was there to tell his audience that he felt as if he had come not just to the centre of Europe but of the world . |
| 25 | John McLeish , himself a forceful character , felt as if he had been put through a wringer . |
| 26 | He was grim-faced and looked as if he had not slept , but he offered them freshly made coffee and raised a smile for Catherine . |
| 27 | In America he seemed the embodiment of the new age , ‘ the Bolshevik pianist ’ who played as if he had ‘ steel fingers , steel biceps , steel triceps ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ Certainly , ’ he said , as if he had never seen me before , took my money and gave me a ticket . |
| 29 | He made it seem as if he had gone to New Orleans drunk , got sober and wrote a book . |
| 30 | as if he had no place anywhere else . |