Example sentences of "as [subord] you [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ as if you would interfere in what was n't your business ! ’ said Jenny with mock indignation . |
| 2 | as if you would have a polish day every Friday you could put it on Thursday night . |
| 3 | ‘ Bedtime — you look as if you 'll fall asleep where you sit at any moment . |
| 4 | It was only when he moved round to the side that he saw the blue , chapped ears and the hair , frozen and brittle , as if you could snap it off . |
| 5 | ‘ You look as if you could do with a cup . ’ |
| 6 | You look as if you could do with a hot drink , and as a matter of fact , so could 1 . |
| 7 | ‘ You looked as if you could do with a sit-down , ’ said the boy 's mother . |
| 8 | ‘ You look as if you could do with a bit of help … ’ |
| 9 | Come on ; you look as if you could do with this coffee . ’ |
| 10 | On the other hand , you sound as if you could do with a laugh . |
| 11 | You look as if you could do with collapsing on a sofa . ’ |
| 12 | It was n't as if you could rely on him being away from home during the working day . |
| 13 | ‘ You do n't look as if you could get anything right . |
| 14 | ‘ You both look as if you could use a stiff drink , ’ said Harris , softening the natural rasp of his voice with an almost paternal note of concern . |
| 15 | It is as if you could read in them simultaneously transcriptions of inducement , threat , coercion , protection , solace , yearning and resistance . |
| 16 | And they would talk to you — you know , as if you could read and write . |
| 17 | ( ‘ as if you could kill time without injuring eternity , ’ Thoreau said . ) |
| 18 | ‘ The thinking is that everyone should be placid and passive , as if you can creep up to the polls in carpet slippers . |
| 19 | She narrowed her eyes to catch the first mosquito smudge of distant cormorants — give them till daylight , she told herself as if you can command their flight ! |
| 20 | ‘ It 's not as if you can do anything — and believe me , we 've enough staff who 'll be more than happy to keep him occupied if he should wake up , but just now all he wants to do is sleep . |
| 21 | Oh , oh , it 's not , it 's not as if you can do , go long , long ways does it , do a , fill up you , fill up very often do you ? |
| 22 | Not as if you can wash them . |
| 23 | If you use it from floor to ceiling in a recess — say the recesses either side of a chimney breast — it will look as if you can walk into a whole extra room next door . |
| 24 | Roger has also dismissed the use of ‘ contracts ’ : ‘ as if you can hope to put relationships down on paper ’ . |
| 25 | It 's not as if you can stagger in like when you 've got a heavy cold , at least |
| 26 | Like SuperCalc these are n't pictorial in content , but at least the shadowed button look makes them appear as if you should click then with a mouse — which is more than can be said for either of the other two packages . |
| 27 | And she goes , oh yeah , as if you 'd know ! |
| 28 | Practising freekicks , with no ball , on no pretext other than looking as if you 'd have done a marvellous job if there had been a ball . |
| 29 | So it does n't matter whether we look at it as whether you 'd get a third or whether you say you 'd get two sixths well it does n't matter cos it 's the same size it 's just it 's cut into two pieces or the way you wanted to do it which was a good way with the first pizza . |