Example sentences of "as [conj] he have [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we chatted , Hastings looked as composed as if he 'd just spent the afternoon at his office rather than sending Wales homeward to Cardiff to think again . |
| 2 | Ray Shepherd looked up at them as coolly as if he had just driven in to work on a routine day . |
| 3 | Reliefs and deductions can be obtained by the taxpayer in the same way as if he had actually received the income ( s743(2) ) . |
| 4 | He rose to his feet , making it clear the question was rhetorical , as Gina , feeling as humiliated as if he had actually slapped her face , tried to hide her chagrin by swallowing the remains of her coffee . |
| 5 | Louis looked as though he 'd just got up off the ground after being knocked out in a fight . |
| 6 | His tone was perfectly reasonable , affable even , so why did she feel as though he 'd just issued a command ? |
| 7 | Friends then , the three of us — me sitting in the back of the old Countryman as it rattled along , Edward at the wheel singing Verdi as though he 'd just found the key to the Hermetic Mystery if not that of the aria he 'd chosen , while Laura , who had taken some persuading , groaned and laughed beside him . |
| 8 | Chief Inspector Kuhlmann put down the phone and looked at Kurt Meyer as though he 'd never seen him before . |
| 9 | And he 'd looked at her as though he 'd never seen her before in his life . |
| 10 | He looked as though he 'd never smiled in his life . |
| 11 | The old farmer looked at me in surprise , then glanced around as though he had just noticed the weather . |
| 12 | But then the other man seemed to regain control of himself , for the next moment he was shinning up the rope as though he had just realised his life depended on it — quite literally ! |
| 13 | The whole family and Christian crowded around the young gipsy , congratulating him as though he had just achieved some major feat . |
| 14 | The memory was staggeringly clear , as though he had just heard those other bells , as though he were just surging forward in his final spurt , kicking for home . |
| 15 | He was so calm — as though he had just parked his car outside . |
| 16 | He felt weak and shaking , as though he had just had a huge shock . |
| 17 | He looked as though he had just returned from a Chas'n Dave concert or tied up Hercules the horse in the Steptoe and Son barn . |
| 18 | Why did he feel as though he had just run his sword through the heart of something small and desperately struggling for survival ? |
| 19 | He felt exhausted , as though he had just run a marathon . |
| 20 | To hear Joicey speak , it was as though he had just left the Prince 's side , and that the 1745 Rebellion had ended the previous day . |
| 21 | The best moment on ‘ Strangeways , Here We Come ’ was , strangely , the most obvious statement Morrissey ever made in a lyric , ‘ Paint A Vulgar Picture ’ offered no new insights to the tacky edge of such a subject , but it did sound as though he had finally decided to cast away all the ambiguity of his writing and head , simplistically , for the jugular . |
| 22 | It sounded as though he had already said the same thing to a great many others . |
| 23 | The rehearsal had gone well , and it seemed as though he had successfully jumped the chasm between off- and on-Broadway . |
| 24 | The important truth about this story is not that Zacchaeus had a change of heart as though he had suddenly decided that the way back to God was through good works of charity . |
| 25 | She took a step backwards , staring at him as though he had suddenly gone mad . |
| 26 | As though he had suddenly realised that Curtis was bluffing him , frightening him into pleading for mercy in a pathetic attempt to humiliate him — or perhaps to force from him a confession of what the lieutenant claimed were his crimes against the whores he had exterminated . |
| 27 | Cashman stared at Matthew as though he had suddenly levitated . |
| 28 | As though he had always known the Wall should disappear , the Soviet Foreign Minister , Mr Eduard Shevarnadze , described as ‘ wise and sensible ’ the East German decision to open it up . |
| 29 | Frequently he paused to inspect his tail as though he had never heard noises like that before . |
| 30 | By English law , Michael Joyce lost his British nationality as completely as though he had never possessed it . |