Example sentences of "he [vb past] as if [pron] 'd " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end , he acted as if he 'd said nothing to me at all earlier about being worried , being followed and everything and he turned the conversation round to me and my future . |
| 2 | ‘ Nathan ? ’ she called , and he called back , ‘ Yes ? ’ but there was no second call , and he turned round , and there was nobody there , not a sound , and he felt strange then , he felt as if he 'd been visited . |
| 3 | ‘ Do n't ever follow me again , Peter , ’ she said , totally unexpectedly ; she had n't even looked his way , and he felt as if he 'd been caught in a searchlight 's beam in the middle of some guilty act . |
| 4 | He felt as if he 'd been inside a cell ever since his arrest , imprisoned within his own mind . |
| 5 | He looked as if he 'd been Lying there on his stomach for quite a while . |
| 6 | He looked as if he 'd taken both barrels into his chest at very close range . |
| 7 | Despite the casual modern clothes he wore , he looked as if he 'd stepped from some early-Renaissance painting . |
| 8 | He looked as if he 'd been home a while . |
| 9 | His face was set and hard ; except for the muscle knotting in his jaw , he looked as if he 'd been sculpted of stone . |
| 10 | Ted was a child of the sixties , but he sounded as if he 'd been born in the Blitz . |
| 11 | Michael , when he was at s When he was at school , he won a scholarship to university , when he got to the university he said as if he 'd made a great discovery . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , Peter , you mean , ’ he said as if he 'd forgotten all about him . |