Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Hobbs gazed at me as if fascinated . |
| 2 | I have a Goniopora coral and my Clownfish lives in it as if it were an anemone , which is not doing it a lot of good . |
| 3 | So Jesus asked the question : How can the Messiah be the son of David if David refers to him as Lord ? |
| 4 | A chubby young man called Laird Cregar appealed to me as a suspect , if only because he had the habit of being seen loitering around places where beautiful women had just been strangled . |
| 5 | Aunt Millie went with her as chaperone , and kept her secret . |
| 6 | Travis stared at her as if she had indeed gone crazy . |
| 7 | Mannheim refers to them as ‘ wish-images ’ for a future social order . |
| 8 | Lenin referred to them as a ‘ separate social stratum ’ , at least until the highest stage of development had been reached . |
| 9 | While he and Charlotte went steadily ahead making their preparations , Ruth rushed at hers as if the summons to depart might arrive the very next day . |
| 10 | Tessa looked at me as if I had said something odd . |
| 11 | I do not overlook De Gourmont 's plea for a meeting of the nations but I do believe that when they meet Paris will be more than slightly abashed to find parodies of the middle ages , Dante and Langue D'Oc foisted upon it as the best in United States poetry . |
| 12 | If she had had it in her power to change anything in that one moment , it would be for Matthew to come to her as a friend . |
| 13 | I 'm the company secretary , so it was essential that I was there and , as our timetables kept being shifted , I could see Martin looking at me as if to say is she going to make it ? |
| 14 | Anna refers to me as il pollice nero . |
| 15 | Gillian looked at me as if that was rather a stupid question . |
| 16 | In a queer way , though Marjorie was so kind , Emmie thought of her as an enemy . |
| 17 | Sam looked at him as if he were retarded . |
| 18 | Blanche looked at him as if he needed urgent psychiatric treatment . |
| 19 | Belle 's sister Lil went with her as a companion for the long journey . |
| 20 | [ PAMELA enters behind him as if in his imagination ] |
| 21 | Two major problems had to be solved ; Bethe refers to them as Part I and Part 2 . |
| 22 | In 1712 Blackmore referred to them as ‘ the shame and heavy burden of the earth ’ . |
| 23 | The Ranters were a group of extreme religious libertarians who believed that God dwelt inside them as an inner light . |
| 24 | Essentially , the proofs of the reality of God appealed to him as the only adequate explanation for the existence of the world . |
| 25 | Nicolo looked at her as if she 'd lost her mind . |
| 26 | Nicolo stared at her as if she 'd gone mad . |
| 27 | Miss Menzies looked at him as if he was mad . |
| 28 | ‘ Criminals far more vicious than Nicholas Dodman looked upon him as an easy target to provide an outlet for their criminal activities , ’ he said . |
| 29 | ‘ Criminals far more vicious than Nicholas Dodman looked upon him as an easy target to provide an outlet for their criminal activities , ’ he said . |
| 30 | Pascoe looked at her as if he could n't make the connection . |