Example sentences of "as [subord] [pers pn] have [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were considered lawful game for these men as if we had been conquered . |
| 2 | Why , then , does a contemplation of his life and work leave us feeling zestful rather than discouraged , as if we have been brushed by someone with an incorrigible belief in happiness ? |
| 3 | Though his features looked as if they 'd been carved from stone , in the depths of his gaze something stirred . |
| 4 | The crushing weariness was a formidable enemy , though , and she felt her eyelids drooping as if they 'd been weighted . |
| 5 | She was wearing biker leathers and cowboy boots which all looked as if they 'd been applied with the aid of a shoehorn . |
| 6 | They felt as if they 'd been scoured out with a Brillo pad . |
| 7 | It was as if they 'd been ordered not to be taken alive . ’ |
| 8 | Davide threw himself on it to stop her pulling it off altogether with the bowl of fruit and the jug of water and glasses with it ; so they grappled , and in the contact something gave way , melted within them both and they clung together , aching in their heads and their bones as if they 'd been caught out on the mountains in the winter and been chilled to the marrow . |
| 9 | The third she found broken , knocked over on to its side , the water dripping from a puddle on the windowsill on to a seat below and through that on to the floor , and the flowers scattered and brown-edged , as if they 'd been picked for their beauty and freshness by a little girl and then loosed regardlessly on the path from her sticky hands as she ran off to do something else . |
| 10 | His jeans looked as if they 'd been slashed with a knife . |
| 11 | He 'd lost weight , his eyes were staring and red as if they 'd been rolled in grit , and his clothes hung on him like a scarecrow 's ; it was almost as if , in the course of the past few weeks , he 'd been drained of the zest and the energy and the sense of confidence that she 'd steadily been picking up . |
| 12 | Isobel was ambitious , and had her sights set on the national news media ; unfortunately , so did every other young news-hustler in every backwater station in the country , and few of them were having to contend with sinuses that felt as if they 'd been stuffed with pillows . |
| 13 | I did hang them up matron said Mary Lou mildly , I know I did , then Mary Lou 's tennis racket sudden showed three broken strings , they were not frayed , but looked as if they 've been cut , Mary Lou was upset . |
| 14 | The graphics look as if they 've been ported directly across from a Spectrum . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's almost as if they 've been told to keep their distance . ’ |
| 16 | It looks as if they 've been washed . |
| 17 | They looked as if they had been arranged by some cleaner who had been sent in to tidy up and who did not know that in this room Ernest Jarvis had hanged himself . |
| 18 | They looked as if they had been dressed in a hurry and not very suitably for a long walk on the headland , even in a warm autumn . |
| 19 | The machines hummed and snick-snicked as if they had been warned to keep their voices down . |
| 20 | Anthony 's hard features looked as if they had been carved from stone . |
| 21 | Those stacks looked as if they had been turned out of a tin . ’ |
| 22 | The meal that accompanied it was a feast , cooked and served by the patronne with justifiable pride : tiny moules marinières , which tasted as if they had been cut from the rocks that morning ; bifteck , brown and crisp on the outside , perfectly rare within ; a platter of thin crisp sizzling hot pommes frites ; an excellent salad , served in a plain white bowl . |
| 23 | They hung at the end of slender wrists and looked as if they had been tacked on to the wrong person . |
| 24 | The explosion detached the separate wings as if they had been plucked feathers . |
| 25 | Obediently , they bowed their heads and he dusted his hands as if they had been contaminated . |
| 26 | Angelo Heilprin , an American geologist who visited the scene a few weeks later and wrote a book about the tragedy , described ‘ twisted bars of iron , great masses of roof sheeting wrapped like cloth about posts upon which they had been flung , and iron girders looped and festooned as if they had been made of rope ’ . |
| 27 | The drawing-room was full of rugs that looked upsettingly as if they had been made from earlier Afghans . |
| 28 | Yet they were now learning to kiss as if they had been made for one another , she thought in panic . |
| 29 | Down they came , her two big sons , dark like their father , square and looking as if they had been manufactured by a toy firm to look like younger versions of a father in a game . |
| 30 | He hat eventually decided to ask Security 's registry and its computers for a trace muddling the trail by getting a colleague to send the request for him and burying it in a list of acronyms as if they had been collected over a period of time . |