Example sentences of "as if [pers pn] [vb past] [been] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter Naulls and he , searching for the hole into the mine , had got as suntanned as if they had been on the kind of holiday they never had , on the beaches of Spain or Italy . |
| 2 | She stayed in Danzig five or six weeks , to her daughter-in-law 's horror and embarrassment , since she had her cryings and roarings ‘ as well as if she had been at home ’ . |
| 3 | But Lamprey had been as courteous as if she had been in her father 's drawing-room . |
| 4 | None of this mess was of her making , yet she was just as much a prisoner as if she had been in gaol like Clive . |
| 5 | Through the brushed cotton of her sweater she could feel the pressure of his fingers , his touch scorching her as surely as if it had been on her bare skin . |