Example sentences of "as if she 'd " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if she 'd been wearing a coat of many many colours , and , beached on the desert island shore of Pity Me , had shredded the damn shrunken thing . |
| 2 | So when her son married and his wife had a baby girl she felt as if she 'd regained the daughter she 'd lost . |
| 3 | Charlie was dead keen on Lilian doing him credit and she always did , always looked as if she 'd just stepped out of a bandbox . |
| 4 | She put her hand in her pocket as if she 'd suddenly remembered something . |
| 5 | Zambia felt as if SHe 'd been punched in the gut . |
| 6 | She occupied a tiny apartment hidden away beneath Betty 's house , and she had a habit of materializing unexpectedly as if she 'd sprung up through a trapdoor . |
| 7 | ‘ Great minds think alike , ’ she said as if she 'd invented the aphorism . |
| 8 | They stared at her as if she 'd turned into a circus freak . |
| 9 | Then drew back quickly , as if she 'd just been burned . |
| 10 | The phrase ‘ as if she 'd lost her only friend ’ bears this out . |
| 11 | She wrote as if she 'd hated me all my life . ’ |
| 12 | Whenever I saw her , she always smiled at me , It was as if she 'd got me confused with someone else , someone important Once I had half an hour to wait for a transport . |
| 13 | His hands slid from her breasts as if she 'd been greased . |
| 14 | It looked as if she 'd been up in the loft for something , which I suppose was rather rash in her state of health . |
| 15 | She leaned on Craig 's shoulder as if she 'd known him all her life . |
| 16 | This might sound , to Albert , as if she 'd been looking for him . |
| 17 | She was smiling , she knew ; oh , this was the opposite of " her look " , when she felt like this , as if she 'd drunk an extra-fine distilled essence of danger , and could have stepped out among the stars or run thirty miles . |
| 18 | Ruth seemed to lose her breath , as if she 'd been punched . |
| 19 | Oh no , she thought — as if she 'd known all along this was what would happen . |
| 20 | She wore a large white straw hat and looked as if she 'd just been to church . |
| 21 | Elaine was chattering to the chap with the soulful face as if she 'd never forgotten how to talk . |
| 22 | I found her bustling about with a feather duster looking as if she 'd been up for hours . |
| 23 | She asked , ‘ What was that ? ’ as if she 'd just failed to catch some remark that Luke had made . |
| 24 | She looked small , frail , and feeble ; her face was dazed and vacant , as if she 'd just been woken up and could n't quite remember where she was . |
| 25 | Her bottom stung as if she 'd sat on a nest of hornets , but she wanted to show them she 'd survived . |
| 26 | A second , searing stroke made her gasp for breath , as fire exploded in her backside as if she 'd been hit by a ball of lightning . |
| 27 | Ace felt as if she 'd been struck . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She appeared to have been holding a makeshift icepack to the side of her head and a couple of the cubes had skidded out of reach and begun to melt , almost as if she 'd been in too much of a hurry to stretch over for them . |
| 30 | She was feeling as if she 'd made a long , exhausting hike instead of just the kilometre or so that she 'd actually walked , but it was n't a bad feeling . |