Example sentences of "[prep] [subord] it have [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looked as if it had just been brought home by Susan from Blackpool . |
| 2 | She noticed that his hair had scissor marks in it , as if it had just been dry cut . |
| 3 | I stared stupidly at the bag in my hand as if it had just been dropped there from a helicopter . |
| 4 | The Z88 's line editor may then be used to edit the line as if it had just been typed in . |
| 5 | The line to be edited is now in the input buffer and may be edited as if it had just been typed in . |
| 6 | She said , ‘ Oh , I see , ’ as if it had n't been obvious to her that the photograph was old . |
| 7 | The remark was so puzzling Pascoe continued as if it had n't been spoken . |
| 8 | ‘ The evil of Sauron can not be wholly cured ’ , replies Gandalf , ‘ nor made as if it had not been . ’ |
| 9 | Her mother had been so excited at the attention paid to her , almost as if it had not been Louise but she herself who was attracting the attention of the young gentlemen . |
| 10 | On some mornings the ducks on Three Island Pond would take off in great arcing flights against the sun , round and behind the Cages and out of sight , round again and behind the distant trees and then suddenly back again as if it had all been a mistake and they had never meant to fly off in the first place . |
| 11 | It was as if it had all been planned . |
| 12 | And as if it had all been a bad dream , Tara wakes up soon after . |
| 13 | Even Scouse 's latrine had disappeared as if it had never been there . |
| 14 | It would seem that everything between them has been ruined — but no , they decide to treat the day as if it had never been ; and when he has gone Emily picks up her goose-quill pen and again writes ‘ Dear Edmund ’ . |
| 15 | The whole Home Rule movement , with roots going far back into the past , melted quietly away as if it had never been . |
| 16 | That same night she had gone to Yeoman 's Lane for the last time , accepting without pain that she had thought their love was untouchable , yet now it was as if it had never been . |
| 17 | About two-thirds of the sacks of refuse had gone , and the pit she had seen was as if it had never been , under a litter of dead leaves where a couple of blackbirds foraged . |
| 18 | The miniature stainless-steel kitchenette looked as if it had never been cooked in . |
| 19 | His mood changed like quicksilver , the sombreness vanishing as if it had never been there . |
| 20 | The slight warmth was absolutely gone as if it had never been . |
| 21 | Her ability to be cold and untouchable seemed to have gone as if it had never been . |
| 22 | The open sewer in the high street looked as if it had never been cleaned and at times we squelched ankle deep in human excrement . |
| 23 | If the representation has been made fraudulently or recklessly ( not caring whether or not it is true ) , then at common law the remedy of rescission is available ( setting the contract aside as if it had never been made at all ) , together with a right to recover any money laid out . |
| 24 | In the group accounts , the subsidiary undertaking is treated as if it had always been a member of the group . |
| 25 | Stephen wanted the hotel to look as if it had always been there , part of the landscape , and Paul suggested a South American landscape architect , whom he had heard of . |
| 26 | Beyond the gathered T'ang his palace sat atop its artificial mound , firmly embedded , as if it had always been there , its pure white walls topped with steep roofs of red tile , the whole great structure capped by a slender six-storey pagoda that stood out , silhouetted against the sky . |
| 27 | I find the name in my head , as if it had always been there : Hyde Hill Lane . |
| 28 | as if it had ever been there . |
| 29 | And I remember the day it went from Extended Titling to three three four and it was just three three four , it did n't look as if it had ever been intended to set these lines . |
| 30 | Ray Shepherd was a tall man with a craggy , lined face that looked as if it had once been weathered but was now the colour of chalk . |