Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] if he [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When in the course of my explanation I mentioned the word pagan , he jerked as if he were on the end of a wire . |
| 2 | Less than a mile to go as they pinged over the three obstacles set close together at the far end of the back straight , and Mill House was ail of three lengths ahead : as they stretched out round the long sweeping turn towards the Pond Fence , the third from home , it really seemed as if he was at last going to take his revenge on Arkle . |
| 3 | Corbett felt as if he was in a nightmare ; the very smallness of the man made him a false opponent , almost cutting off Corbett 's blood lust and desire to protect himself . |
| 4 | He felt as if he were at one of Mama 's evenings . |
| 5 | He felt as if he were at yet another family wedding . |
| 6 | He felt as if he were in a trance , speaking the words of someone else ; the pressure of this rare ocean heave of happiness had re-baptised him , and the words came from out of the air . |
| 7 | I picked a man who looked as if he was in his late thirties or early forties . |
| 8 | Number 47 looked as if he were in a conversational mood . |