Example sentences of "as [subord] his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's as if his actual presence were some kind of inconvenience , like going to the toilet , as if his body were a mere nuisance . |
| 2 | It was now obvious that the horse was a stayer and yet Harry Short 's stable jockey had recently ridden him as if his best distance was six furlongs , holding him up for a late run . |
| 3 | He pulls a second face as if his entire life is flashing before him , as if Sir John Gielgud has told him to piss off . |
| 4 | He felt as if his entire arm and hand were ablaze ; as if someone had turned a blowtorch on them . |
| 5 | He felt numb , as if his entire body had been pumped full of novocaine . |
| 6 | But , since last night he had felt totally vulnerable and defenceless , as if his familiar world had suddenly become a dangerous , alien planet and he was stranded on it , lost and without protection . |
| 7 | Clinton behaved as if his first year at Oxford would be his only year . |
| 8 | He grew large and plump and round-cheeked , but he was without kittenish ways as if his sad experience had robbed him prematurely of his youth , yet when he sat on Lyn 's lap in the evenings he gave himself up to a drowsy and contented purring . |
| 9 | It was as if his downcast spirits had lifted — and he were , after all , elated by thoughts of kingship . |
| 10 | She walked warily as if his colourless eyes were judging and assessing her all the time . |
| 11 | So surprised by the movement he felt as if his vocal cords had frozen , Paxton hardly moved as his head was yanked hard backwards . |
| 12 | It was as if his whole body was itching unbearably . ’ |
| 13 | Quick as a flash the doctor had cut the cord , passed the child to Matilda Jenkins , and was stitching away at Sarah as if his own life depended on it . |
| 14 | The red light grated on Jaq 's eyes as if his own eyes were bloodshot , dazed with the blood of billions . |
| 15 | And these afflicted abandoned mothers : it was as if his own mother were , for a moment , superimposed upon Irina 's mother who was always moaning and complaining and ill . |
| 16 | Cranston jabbed the point of his knife into a piece of soft meat , mumbled his assent and continued to eat as if his very life depended upon it . |
| 17 | If it had been a Peter Reid type , someone who battles and fights his way through every game as if his very life depended on it , I might have sat up and took a little bit more notice . |