Example sentences of "as [subord] [pers pn] have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When depressed she was beset with ‘ sudden sorrow and grief ’ , afraid of eternal damnation , ‘ mourned and sorrowed as though God had forsaken her ’ , suffering her ‘ to have as many evil thoughts as before she had good ones ’ . |
| 2 | " It is n't , after all , as though we had any reason for not having them , because now that Amelia and Magnus and Gabriel are all married there 's plenty of room , and my parents are anyway worried , politically speaking if you know what I mean , about having so much empty house ( though he 's hardly the kind of tenant that that kind of consideration would provide ) , and he even pays some rent from time to time . |
| 3 | The Comédie Française did not impress her either , for it seemed to her a collection of posturing gabbling shadows , mocking at plays that she had studied in tranquillity and silence : the celebrated mirrors of Versailles were all spotty , Notre-Dame looked at her as though it had two spires missing from on top , and the famous intellectual cafés were full of old men and tourists . |
| 4 | She felt tall and languid , heated as though she had drunk wine . |
| 5 | This filly looked as though she had some obstruction in her airflow . |
| 6 | He 'd looked as though he had expensive tastes . |
| 7 | He did not look as though he had any money in his pockets at all . |
| 8 | I was surprised by how quickly he agreed to the meeting , as though he had some sort of obligation towards me . |
| 9 | ‘ It does n't sound as though he has any luck at all ! ’ |