Example sentences of "as [conj] it had [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He jerked his hand back as if it had received an electric shock : a cheek nerve had quivered . |
| 2 | She made a gesture with a graceful hand that shut me up as if it had turned a tap . |
| 3 | But then the weather changed and although things were given and flowering it was cold and windy and it seemed strange there should be all that blossom , wrong like , as if it had made a mistake and popped up at the wrong time — that was because I had felt the warmth of those few nice days . |
| 4 | He then engaged full astern , causing the boat to stop as if it had hit a brick wall , and cried : ‘ Drop anchor ! ’ |
| 5 | By that time , many more men had arrived , swirling up through the yard to be sucked into the hall , as if it had become the quiet , humming centre of some whirlpool of power . |
| 6 | as if it had happened a few years ago , Mr Donal John MacLennan , leaning on his metal gate as his sheep thronged the pens of today 's farm at Corry , knew that Johnson and Boswell had been guests in this place , and that they had had good times here . |
| 7 | I had never had him down as a kerb-crawler either , but from the state of the car it looked as if it had had a good kicking . |