Example sentences of "[vb past] as if he [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I believe they behaved as if he 'd had a fortunate escape — condemned Isabelle as an aventurière , and worse . |
| 2 | It seemed as if he 'd thought of everything . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They grinned as if he 'd made a joke , and they walked him inside . |
| 6 | After his speech the conference clapped and cheered as if he had announced the abolition of the income tax . |
| 7 | Harry felt as if he had heard or read them all before , in one form or another , and none of them shed any light on what had struck Mrs Diamond as ‘ not right ’ : |
| 8 | She felt as if he had led her out of darkness into light . |
| 9 | She felt as if he had hit her . |
| 10 | ‘ You mean — ’ Paul felt as if he had received a blow in the stomach . |
| 11 | As the two sections of the bridge rose majestically into the air somehow it felt as if he had arranged it especially for her . |
| 12 | Flaubert knew a choking sensation and felt as if he had swallowed flesh . |
| 13 | He felt as if he had walked for miles and knew that he had certainly had too much to drink . |
| 14 | Maxim felt as if he had baked ( if that was what you did ) a perfect soufflé of evidence , all crisp and firm , and then floop : it was swimming off the plate and dripping on his shoes . |
| 15 | He felt as if he had left behind forever the world of crime and hardship and poverty . |
| 16 | And Sir Richard Attenborough was there to tell his audience that he felt as if he had come not just to the centre of Europe but of the world . |
| 17 | Isabel felt as if he 'd slapped her . |
| 18 | So much change , in so short a time ; Pete felt as if he 'd aged more in ten weeks than in the ten years that had gone before . |
| 19 | Despite the casual modern clothes he wore , he looked as if he 'd stepped from some early-Renaissance painting . |
| 20 | He looked as if he 'd taken both barrels into his chest at very close range . |
| 21 | Sam looked as if he 'd had too much of the whole thing . |
| 22 | We came to the Tower as Ralph 's guests for Yuletide , supping as usual at the Golden Mitre in Petty Wales , but when we met Sir Ralph that particular time , he looked as if he had seen a ghost . |
| 23 | He looked as if he had heard better ideas . |
| 24 | He still looked as if he had escaped from a major car crash . |
| 25 | For a month or so it looked as if he had succeeded in defusing the time bomb , but soon Catholic leaders were arguing that nothing was really changing . |
| 26 | My most abiding memory will not be of the joy of the French , but the terrible sight of Pete Sampras ' face at the prize giving ceremony which looked as if he had come into intimate contact with an atom bomb . |
| 27 | He had left a home and run away , but all he looked as if he had got was the probability of sleeping rough on a pavement . |
| 28 | Presiding from the centre of the dais , Mr Crumwallis looked as if he had told wearily over every second of every minute of the watches of that night . |
| 29 | No wonder he looked as if he wanted to wring her neck . |
| 30 | Her body reacted as if he had touched her , her breasts peaking with taut urgency . |