Example sentences of "as if [pers pn] have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The driver seemed as concerned to show off his excessive acceleration as if we had been prospective buyers and he a salesman . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It seemed as if they 'd been wrong about one thing and only too right about the other . |
| 4 | Well do do n't look as if they 've been used does it ? |
| 5 | He spoke as if they had been married for years , and could joke about sharing a bed . |
| 6 | Dismissing the taxpayer 's appeal , Mr Justice Vinelott said that the overriding purpose of para 24(5) , Sch 5 , FA 1975 was to ensure that the participators in a close company , which was entitled to an interest in possession , were to be treated for the purposes of capital transfer tax as if they had been entitled to interests in possession according to their rights and interests in the company . |
| 7 | At the base of these cliffs , almost as if they had been hewn in the rock by men , were three , four or five cave-mouths , chamber-like , as if they were a row of monastic cells in some monastery . |
| 8 | The walls look as if they have been fire-blasted , and there is a smell of sulphur hanging in the room , with faint wisps of smoke . |
| 9 | After putting a trial foot several times in the river , Harriet launched herself and swam as if she had been used to water all her life . |
| 10 | She felt heavy-lidded and drowsy , as if she had been asleep for a week . |
| 11 | She looked drowsy , as if she had been asleep . |
| 12 | She had n't moved or made a sound , just opened her eyes in the red-tinged darkness and seen him there without surprise as if she had been aware of his presence ever since he arrived . |
| 13 | Her face was pale , far paler than he remembered , as if she had been ill . |
| 14 | Theda continued along the gallery , towards Lady Merchiston 's room , feeling ridiculously guilty , as if she had been ungracious . |
| 15 | ‘ It leaves a hell of a hangover , ’ said Mrs Ridley , and Lee felt relieved as if she had been ashamed of her suffering and had had it authenticated at last . |
| 16 | Mala sprang from her sear as if she 'd been electro-jolted . |
| 17 | Outside in the street , where she could raise her voice again , she almost shouted at him , telling him he was to stop behaving as if he had been right and she wrong — as if he believed she now shared his views and endorsed his ridiculous maunderings . |
| 18 | He felt light-headed , as if he had been awake for days on end . |
| 19 | Christopher had turned blue as if he had been short of oxygen . |
| 20 | He 'd been thinking that he 'd covered every angle , but now he was feeling as if he 'd been wrong-footed . |
| 21 | She was wearing a chartreuse dress that looked as if it had been spray-painted on . |
| 22 | He was a stocky fifty-eight-year-old with grey hair and a small goatee beard which looked as if it had been stuck on to his chin with glue . |
| 23 | The Bill thus becomes unopposed and proceeds as if it had been unopposed throughout . |
| 24 | Young lads gather round the car which looks as if it had been dead for days or weeks . |
| 25 | And I , I ran there and ran back to continue my game , at play like and I heard a , mo , her say to mother well I like your lad to go says th look at this cheese it 's never been unwrapped he said those other lads he says it 's always looks as if it 's been unwrapped and |
| 26 | " Do you know , I feel as if I 've been asleep . |
| 27 | ‘ But it looks as if I 've been lucky and escaped the worst of it . |