Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [conj] i be [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Fear often played tricks with my perception and now it seemed as if I was losing my grip of reality .
2 It seemed as if I were speaking it …
3 It 's like a speck of dust drifts down and goes into my eye and I look up to see where it came from and I 'm hit by this tonne of bricks ; it hits me that hard .
4 ‘ I felt as if I was beginning to fade . ’
5 I felt as if I was screaming and not making any noise .
6 These , however , have to co-exist next to real lulus like , ‘ Being a mole I felt as if I was living on burrowed time . ’
7 At one point I felt as if I was drifting slowly across a huge , vivid moviescreen , so large I could n't see its edges .
8 It was fascinating , I felt as if I was learning about another world .
9 I felt as if I was taking part in history and the results were spectacular .
10 I just felt as if I was staring and staring at you and that at any minute you 'd disappear , like the ghost in Hamlet .
11 I wanted the silence to go on , but , as I listened , it felt as if I was racing it .
12 And when the great beast stopped to answer a call of nature , I felt as if I was sitting astride Mount Pinatubo .
13 I did as I was told and flopped down on a chair , but it gradually got worse and worse , and I felt as if I was going to be sick .
14 ‘ I felt as if I was going to see John . ’
15 We headed out along the waterfront towards the port , but it felt as if I was treading water .
16 I felt as if I were moving just a beat faster than everyone else .
17 I felt as if I were drowning in sleep .
18 As nearly all the children had freckles , I felt as if I were seeing spots before my eyes , and drew Mickey Mice in a trance , my hand and pen moving mechanically through a misty ocean of freckles , wave upon wave , every freckle asking for Mickey Mouse .
19 There was no sandy beach , and as this part of the bay was an inlet , I felt as if I were standing beside a great lake , not the Atlantic Ocean .
20 I felt as if I were suffocating .
21 My feet almost disappeared in it ; it looked as if I were paddling in muddy water .
22 I looked as if I was reading the paper , but my mind was going over the events at Ingard House , and the curious discrepancy in the stories about Andrew Stavanger .
23 They Matt and me , that 's to say — were arguing about baptising the Indians , and at the point the raft capsized it looked as if I was winning the argument .
24 And it looked as if I was going to have to leave without that promised rarity .
25 Pulled in by the cops , having to rescue a naked vicar and now it looked as if I was going to have to talk down a paranoid lesbian .
26 Anyway he went about in railway jobs as the years went by and I was born in , taken with the rest to Leicester , City of Leicester , but my early memories was in Nottingham .
27 ‘ I need to see Mr Patterson , ’ I said as if I was letting him in on a big secret .
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