Example sentences of "[vb past] as [subord] [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Iris glowed as if she had received a personal compliment . |
| 2 | Patterson 's eyes flickered as if I 'd given him a straw to grasp , but I pressed on . |
| 3 | All her attention was on her first bite of bread which tasted as if it had come straight from Paradise . |
| 4 | Next day we were visited by a pod of dolphins which behaved as if they had escaped from a circus . |
| 5 | Frank did n't apologize and Philip behaved as if nothing had happened . |
| 6 | Back again , he behaved as if nothing had happened . |
| 7 | That 's to say , she had firm features and smartly cut , possibly dyed hair obviously kept under regular control , and she behaved as if she had known a time when she turned every head and expected you to be aware of this too . |
| 8 | They behaved as if I 'd got something to do with the wretched man 's disappearance . |
| 9 | ‘ I believe they behaved as if he 'd had a fortunate escape — condemned Isabelle as an aventurière , and worse . |
| 10 | I knew so little about who had held them and how they had got out , it seemed as if they had come from a different world , a different time . |
| 11 | I did n't accept er the opportunity to retire and take it easy , it seemed as if I had worked twenty seven years for nothing ! |
| 12 | At first it seemed as if it had happened to someone else , and entertaining on that merit alone . |
| 13 | For there was about her cage a silence and stillness so great that it seemed as if she had disappeared . |
| 14 | Here she felt lonely and depressed , as it seemed as if she 'd made no progress and was back in the same vicious circle again . |
| 15 | It seemed as if he 'd thought of everything . |
| 16 | It seemed as if you 'd swept those moments from your mind — at least , you made me feel you were doing your best to forget them . ’ |
| 17 | The road to the Fire Court looked quite straightforward really ; it seemed as if you had to go past a large lake and on down a narrow , windy mountain road with houses dotted on each side . |
| 18 | When Mr Major learned the result , he acted as if he had seen Chelsea win the Cup rather than his own MPs come so close to humiliating him . |
| 19 | By the end , he acted as if he 'd said nothing to me at all earlier about being worried , being followed and everything and he turned the conversation round to me and my future . |
| 20 | The leader nodded as if I 'd said something deeply wise , confirming his faith in me . |
| 21 | Roman nodded as if she had confirmed his thoughts , and turned away from the window , taking her with him . |
| 22 | He waved and grinned as if nothing had happened . |
| 23 | They grinned as if he 'd made a joke , and they walked him inside . |
| 24 | His self-conscious gaucheness vanished as if it had evaporated in the thin cold air of the mountains and he found friends . |
| 25 | After his speech the conference clapped and cheered as if he had announced the abolition of the income tax . |
| 26 | She talked as if she had taken on the mantle of Philip Marlowe , a female arch sleuth for whom the teeming underworld held no secrets . |
| 27 | Schmidt took a short step backwards , then his legs went as if someone had pulled a string . |
| 28 | My legs felt as if they had gone to sleep : I trod painfully on nothing . |
| 29 | He felt as if something had torn inside him . |
| 30 | She felt as if she 'd uncovered a dark pit of long-buried feelings , and she was terrified of peering too far inside in case she could n't cope with the contents … |