Example sentences of "as [subord] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pick up a penguin right , great , come on then Jeff say something pardon it did n't pick that up he said bollocks , Jeff just said bollocks , that 's good oh if tonight we would , see me driving along in the car and got that on , oh no , it 'll be really funny , we 're gon na be sitting there going come on as if we 'd said that today |
| 2 | I nodded , feeling a sense of relief , as if we 'd cleared some giant obstacle in a fog . |
| 3 | It looked as if we had won this initial bout but men like Swire Sugden do n't give up that easily . |
| 4 | They 'd clinked glasses and laughed and just cruised onto the dance floor as if they 'd known each other for years . |
| 5 | Even the drainpipes , clinging half-heartedly to cracked walls and rusty gutters , looked as if they 'd had enough . |
| 6 | They wrote freely as if they had known each other for years . |
| 7 | as if they had dreamed all . |
| 8 | ‘ Respect for the dead , ’ he said , speaking to Carrie quite angrily , as if she had questioned this action . |
| 9 | But this was untrue , for Minch had become quieter and more peaceful as the months had gone by , staring out over the Zoo with a mysterious tranquillity , as if she had found some contentment that eluded the others . |
| 10 | as if she had known this all along but had hoped something different . |
| 11 | She glared at Evelyn as if she had committed some extraordinary prank . |
| 12 | Oh no , she thought — as if she 'd known all along this was what would happen . |
| 13 | She was beginning to speak more quickly now , as if she wanted to rush all the words out . |
| 14 | He shrugged as if he had said all that he intended to say , and bowed to Artai . |
| 15 | And then , almost as if he had received some secret signal , he gave a slight nod of his head , grinning sardonically down at her for a moment before rolling off her body and gathering one of the twins up in his arms . |
| 16 | When I was silent he came towards me , took my hands , and said with a formal air as if he had prepared this speech , ‘ I 'm so sorry I upset you . |
| 17 | It was almost as if he had chosen this quiet tunnel in a relatively quiet station so that he could sing to himself undisturbed , carry on singing without having to admit to himself that this was a hopeless task , that he was n't going to get anything . |
| 18 | He was in the middle of more grief than he could deal with , yet he was piling onto it the commonplace misery of subterfuge , as if he had to protect some clandestine happiness that did n't even exist . |
| 19 | It is as if he had spent several weeks at the headquarters of MI6 learning the techniques of counter-interrogation . |
| 20 | The tension drifted from Blufton 's eyes , as if he had expected another challenge to his veracity . |
| 21 | His lip curled , as if he had known all along what her answer would be . |
| 22 | ‘ It inspected me , ’ said Caspar , sounding as if he had found this amusing . |
| 23 | It was as if he had released some dark and terrible secret which had been boiling within him . |
| 24 | as if he 'd absorbed some of the invisible layers of antiquity , some of the manners of his ancestors . |
| 25 | ‘ Biography time , ’ he observed with a dry smile as if he 'd done this dinner-table routine with countless women before . |
| 26 | It is n't as if he 'd seen all that much of it , really . " |
| 27 | He looked as if he 'd taken both barrels into his chest at very close range . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh , Peter , you mean , ’ he said as if he 'd forgotten all about him . |
| 29 | He looked around him , as if he expected to see another presence there . |
| 30 | The prison did little to lighten their mood : grey frowning walls with a few sombre buildings peeping above them , and a black gateway with an arch which yawned as if it wished to devour any unfortunate who approached it . |