Example sentences of "they [vb past] as if they [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They felt as if they 'd been scoured out with a Brillo pad . |
| 2 | Mr Michael Lyons , duty administrator at Guy 's , said they looked as if they had ‘ gone a couple of rounds with Frank Bruno ’ . |
| 3 | I looked more closely at his cheeks , and saw that they looked as if they had been rubbed to get them red . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Down at the far end of the valley , there was still snow on the upper slopes of the mountains ; they looked as if they 'd been sugar-dusted , with stone walls showing like fine , black veins above the treeline . |
| 7 | They looked as if they needed alcohol , or perhaps a blood transfusion : they were cadaverous . |
| 8 | They hesitated as if they expected to be dismissed , and then hurled themselves noisily on Kadan . |