Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] as [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet when I was having my baby they made me feel as though I should n't be having it . |
| 2 | Their long skirts make them look as though they glide on wheels along the riverside track ; both of them hold a spindle , working and talking all their way . |
| 3 | It was smelly inside , made you feel as though you were choking to death and the eye-holes so small you could n't see out properly . |
| 4 | While you can lose half your liver , one and a half kidneys and most of your toes before you get a noticeable drop in performance , a mere 20% fall in resting cardiac output will make you feel as though you are climbing Everest without oxygen . |
| 5 | Visitor : " So it does n't make you feel as though you belong . " |
| 6 | Does th anyone worry about using notes , it does n't make you feel as though the trainers know what they 're doing does it ? |
| 7 | They 're so determined , they almost make you feel as though you are a child again . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ They make you feel as though it 's their money instead of our money . |
| 9 | So assertive is just being clear in what you want being prepared to keep going until you 've got something along those lines rather than letting people dismiss you or make you feel as though they 've dismissed you and your point not being considered i.e. your point not being heard or going away feeling that your point you did n't have a fair crack because you did n't give your point properly . |
| 10 | The gathers over the bosom made her look as though she was the one breast-feeding . |
| 11 | Her best coat would perhaps have been better because it would make her look as though she had n't let herself go , but on the other hand her frightful old lumber jacket would have suggested , what was true enough , that she was worried enough not to care . |
| 12 | Winner used a megaphone to relay instructions while filming , and Crawford and Reed decided to smear shoe polish round the mouthpiece , which made him look as though he was wearing black lipstick . |
| 13 | She would only have to sit still and clever stage lighting would make it appear as though she were naked . |
| 14 | Erm he decided to stage a fire in which it would make it appear as though er this was a result of some sort of erm armed confrontation between law enforcement and his group . |
| 15 | Although on occasion he functioned as leader of the Congress movement , the ascendancy he achieved over it was purely personal , and he could make it seem as though he played with it at will . |
| 16 | He continued as if she had n't spoken , his voice dropping to a level of intimacy that suddenly made it feel as though they were alone , not being listened to by thousands of people . |
| 17 | Often the tensions made it appear as though there was a ring of invisible men sitting outside the circle of women , a silent audience whose approval we often still needed . |
| 18 | His disgruntled voice made it seem as though the precautions of the drug smugglers formed a personal affront to his patriotism . |
| 19 | After a little tense silence that made it seem as though the very air were holding it breath , he said very evenly , and with dangerous softness . |
| 20 | He hated definitions of apostolic succession which made it sound as though a lot of laying on of hands from century to century was a bit of magic by which God preserves his Church . |
| 21 | He made it sound as though the reason was obvious . |
| 22 | She made it sound as though this were something illegal . |
| 23 | He made it sound as though she had given his sermon to the messenger boy . |
| 24 | He made it sound as though it was the most wonderful thing in the world . |
| 25 | He made it sound as though he would be doing the region a favour , not erecting a gaudy , intrusive , unaesthetic and , in her opinion , entirely superfluous tourist attraction ! |
| 26 | ‘ The analysts finally said that what we were doing was not the problem — the problem was that we made it look as though the truth was being dragged out of us . |
| 27 | ‘ You 're thinking that the aunt killed him and made it look as though he 'd done it himself . ’ |
| 28 | An early goal by the visitors made it look as though we were heading for our nineteenth League defeat of the season , but thanks to my inspirational coaching from the touchline , new boy Kev Knowles levelled the score on the stroke of half-time . |
| 29 | Though he was the descendant of a family who had done this sort of task for generation after generation , George nevertheless made it look as though he were acting . |
| 30 | So he turned round the second he did , and made it look as though he was waiting for the woman he 'd just tried to kill — when they were walking along together … |