Example sentences of "you as [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says the worst is when you say good evening , sir , and they walk past you as if they do n't exist . |
| 2 | There were days when you just could n't talk to him , when he stared at you as if what you said made no sense , and then gave you answers you could n't understand . |
| 3 | Franca , sweetheart , I bless you , I worship you , you have a great soul , I feel I could serve you as if you were God — ’ |
| 4 | You signed up for tennis lessons ( out comes the shorty tennis skirt , a volley of wolf-whistles from the labourers outside , and off to the courts where the horrid male instructor drills you as if you 're in the Green Berets ) . |
| 5 | ‘ People tend at first to treat you as if you 're a journalist looking for Guinness connections . ’ |
| 6 | He knew how to look at you as if you were the only person who 'd ever interested him . |
| 7 | I have cared for you as if you were my own family ! ’ |
| 8 | At Liverpool clubs , the toilets are full of catsuited girls who look at you as if you 're rumoured to be a child molester . |
| 9 | People look at you as if you 'd said you had plague . |
| 10 | And remember , any document you sign abroad is as legally binding for you as if you signed it at home . |
| 11 | A middle-aged building worker who arrived at the palace — his first time in such a place — after his marriage had broken up , said , " I was a little bit disgusted , they do n't treat you as if you were just unemployed , they treat you like a person who has just crawled out of the gutter . " |
| 12 | ‘ Though I know the Princesse loves you as if you were her own child . |
| 13 | They just ignore you as if you 're not there . |
| 14 | Said you were top brass and that I could talk to you as if you were the Commissioner himself . " |
| 15 | Usually one who is a professional teacher is not ideal — he/she may have very set ideas on how to teach , which may not meet your needs , and he/she may teach you as if you were a child . |
| 16 | ‘ Now you know how I felt every time I saw you with Adam , hugging him to you as if you were a bosom friend . |
| 17 | A tall , prematurely white-haired man in a navy blue suit , with eyes that could focus on you as if you were a fly that had settled on a distant door-knob , he could dominate a large room while seated behind a desk at one end of it and without raising his voice above a conversational level . |
| 18 | Er they take you into the office , tell you to sit down , and they look at you as if you 're a little schoolboy . |
| 19 | Gerald will start , er , and he will talk to you as if you were a potential client , but so he can actually relate it to somebody , he 'll choose one of you . |
| 20 | At least you could tune out the gawkers when you did catwalk modelling , but down here , wandering through the crowd , people treated you as if you were — |
| 21 | And , and look at you as if you 're an old fogey if you say tuppence I expect . |