Example sentences of "as though [pers pn] be [be] " in BNC.
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1 | At the thought of those tears , my eyes felt as though they were being crushed and I wished that that moment would last forever . |
2 | It is not as though they were being asked to do an aerobatic display , Mildred . |
3 | I felt as though I was being hung , drawn and quartered for my past , and the only way to live with what was happening to me was to try desperately to provoke some emotional reaction in you . |
4 | Hanging back as he strode off to get it , she protested worriedly , ‘ I really think it might be best not to — and I do n't know quite how it is , but although you all seem to move without speed , not to hurry , I feel as though I 'm being rushed along without time to draw breath ! ’ |
5 | She was conscious of one undoubted fact : ‘ He was directing all his conversations to Joan Sims at this time , so I felt as though I were being talked at , rather than talked to . ’ |
6 | Do you ever feel as though you 're being ganged up on ? |
7 | She was so aware of his hard body , and of the undeniable sex appeal of those jeans and that white shirt , that she deliberately did not look at him , staring fixedly ahead while noting every detail of him as though it was being burned into her brain . |
8 | Bernice told herself that it was n't surprising that she felt as though she was being watched . |
9 | The grey eyes roamed over her face , and she felt as though she was being devoured by some huge magnetic force . |
10 | It felt as though she was being off-loaded . |
11 | Remembering the way Michele had brought her , she retraced her steps , not without a certain unease , a prickly feeling of discomfort , as though she was being watched by unseen eyes . |
12 | For some reason it felt as though she was being sucked into something by a card-sharp . |
13 | The Trunchbull 's whole body and face seemed to swell up as though she were being inflated by a bicycle-pump . |
14 | He was so kind and good , and Honor felt as though she were being blessed whenever he spoke to her . |
15 | He felt as though he was prying , and as though he was being uselessly urged on by some violent emotion of curiosity — not greed , curiosity , more fundamental even than sex , the desire for knowledge . |
16 | Suddenly he became aware of an eerie feeling , as though he was being watched . |
17 | I know it looks as though he was being filmed in a prison cell . |
18 | He 'd sounded as though he was being sarcastic , or ironic , but again she had n't a clue what he meant . |
19 | His throat was wound round with flickering blue blood vessels , as though he was being strangled by asps . |