Example sentences of "if [pron] had just [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feeling as if I had just won a gold medal , I ran home , carefully examined my treasure to find that the ‘ bone ’ handle was only painted tin . |
| 2 | He looked as if someone had just hung a mop on his nose . |
| 3 | She felt as guilty about running away as if she had just robbed a lame beggar of his last groat . |
| 4 | Tina looked guilty , as if she had just betrayed a secret . |
| 5 | But , anyway , if you had just killed a man and taken his pocket-book , would you quietly go through it there ? |
| 6 | Particularly if you had just had a row with your wife , and rather suspected that you were in the wrong . |
| 7 | How can anyone be so arrogant as to talk about this Creature , this Thing , as if they knew It , as if they had just had a letter from It or had chatted to It over the phone , when the It can not be conceived , understood , described , or even proved to exist . |
| 8 | ‘ If he had just painted a cushion instead ! ’ sighed one viewer , as it was bought in at $140,000 ( £80,459 ) ( est. $25–275,000 ) . |