Example sentences of "as if he had [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't as if he had asked for a fee , he had gone to the school for nothing , out of the goodness of his heart . |
| 2 | His head was buried in the sand , hands and feet spread out , as if he had fallen from a great height . ’ |
| 3 | He made it seem as if he had gone to New Orleans drunk , got sober and wrote a book . |
| 4 | His face was unshaved and the hands , rigidly clamped together in his lap , were grubby , as if he had gone to bed unwashed . |
| 5 | He still looked as if he had escaped from a major car crash . |
| 6 | It was as if he had fainted in his sleep and the recovery from the faint made the level of sleep seem reality by comparison . |
| 7 | He all but bumped into the couple , but , just in time , he arrested his progress , drew back , seemed , for an instant , to seek for oxygen as if he had emerged from some physical deep of ocean , looked about him at the mundane world he had re-entered and then , with rapid dignity , collected himself . |
| 8 | He looked old and forlorn , in spite of the ferocious beard , as if he had hoped for something and been disappointed . |
| 9 | It was as if he had turned into a block of ice . |
| 10 | He felt as if he had walked for miles and knew that he had certainly had too much to drink . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Then it was as if he had come to a decision . ’ |
| 13 | Then one day , just as if he had come upon her accidentally , he had said , ‘ You play very well . |
| 14 | It was as if he had put on the quality of maleness like a flamboyant cloak . |
| 15 | It was as if he had returned to the pavilion to celebrate with lemon barley water after a half-century . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | as if he had triggered off a signal the doorbell rang . |
| 18 | He felt as if he had left behind forever the world of crime and hardship and poverty . |