Example sentences of "[prep] if they [vb past] never be " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if they 'd never been . |
| 2 | She was unmaking all her day 's work , making love with him as if they 'd never been together before . |
| 3 | When they recovered , there was no destruction of the heart , lungs and they could go back and work , a young person , as if they 'd never been ill . |
| 4 | Many with whom she had shared the screen for a brief while , people whom she had revered , who had even seemed to define life — such as Akhmatova and Pasternak and Vysotsky — had already slipped out of the plot , and the film churned on as if they had never been . |
| 5 | The lino on the floor was scuffed and torn , the windows nearly opaque with grime , and the walls looked as if they had never been repainted since the place was constructed . |
| 6 | Claire sat down , as they had done so many times together , and the years fell away as if they had never been apart and she had never married . |
| 7 | It was as if she stood in a noisy limbo ; all the yesterdays had gone as if they had never been and all the tomorrows were no more than a tantalising promise . |
| 8 | It is almost as if they had never been wild elephants — but only the day before yesterday , they were . |
| 9 | Reinstatement involves treating employees as if they had never been dismissed . |
| 10 | Sometimes people or Men changed for a moment into some semblance of shape , but then they moved and the mist drifted and they were gone as if they had never been . |
| 11 | The words and his tone lit a glorious fire in Merrill 's blood that consumed the weeks of misery and suspicion as if they had never been . |