Example sentences of "[adv] as [conj] it have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't go on as if it had happened , ’ he said . |
| 2 | When she tried again the door gave suddenly as if it had decided of itself to let her in . |
| 3 | ‘ Did n't I ? ’ said Rose , not as if it had slipped her mind , but as if he had . |
| 4 | She made a gesture with a graceful hand that shut me up as if it had turned a tap . |
| 5 | He jerked his hand back as if it had received an electric shock : a cheek nerve had quivered . |
| 6 | ‘ The Libyan desert has become an inferno where the front line moves continuously as if it had gone mad , ’ wrote Monelli , an Italian war correspondent . |
| 7 | It had appeared , it would move on , but for this moment it was there for her — almost as if it had waited for her to be alone . |