Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] if [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ground of the park rippled as if disturbed by colossal , underground moles . |
| 2 | There were heads hanging from branches in these places , which gleamed as if oiled . |
| 3 | Rosa looked at the weapon piercing the heart of the Mother of God , around which her finely carved wooden hands , so lithe and brown they too might one day reach out and clasp hers , fluttered as if poised either to grasp it and draw it from her or plunge it in deeper . |
| 4 | The people of Forth Worth clapped as if seized with divine ecstasy |
| 5 | There was a smile on his face and it was still on his face when he stopped as if seized up and fell headlong in the passageway . |
| 6 | Angled away from the path of the hurricane , the concrete tube had become a giant organ pipe across the mouth of which the hurricane moaned and howled as if driven into enraged dementia by their evasion of its savagery . |
| 7 | Benjamin knelt as if carved from stone . |
| 8 | Glad of it anyhow , ’ he added as if caught out in some discourtesy . |
| 9 | Jay drove as if inspired , drinking it all in . |
| 10 | They danced as if hurled by some titanic juggler from below the edge of the world . |
| 11 | She sighed as if relieved of a huge weight and leaned against his chest , waiting for his arms to go round her , her heart singing as his heart thudded fast beside her cheek . |
| 12 | A quick peep at Silas showed that he scowled as if displeased about something . |
| 13 | Then he stiffened as if sandbagged by a sudden recollection , gave a small yelp of terror and dashed into the gloom . |
| 14 | Our reporter , Paul Fizpatrick , wrote at the time : ‘ Smith , perhaps too theatrically , fell as if poleaxed . ’ |
| 15 | Nicholas felt as if turned to stone . |
| 16 | ( a beating ) Though my whole inside felt as if clutched in an icy grip , I had gone too far to retreat . |
| 17 | My jaw hurt , my teeth were locked in an instinctive bite , and when released they chattered as if propelled by clockwork . |
| 18 | She lay as if drugged by love , problems such as these far from her conscious mind . |
| 19 | At the coastal town of Easky , two life-sized statues of cloth-capped old men appeared as if turned from flesh to blue-grey stone on the spot , one wheeling a bike , the other resting on a seat . |
| 20 | The man smiled as if intrigued by Corbett , muttering a few words first in Portuguese and then in English . |
| 21 | The nose was rather hooked , slightly splayed , a ‘ tribal ’ nose , thought Lee , the skin brown like wrapping-paper but pearlized as if touched by moonshine . |
| 22 | Isabel stood as if turned to stone , her face still averted . |
| 23 | The old man who had spent his life acquiring beautiful costly things drew a deep breath , and stood as if transfixed . |
| 24 | They all stood as if rooted to the spot , staring at the Monument and its two occupants . |
| 25 | Juliet sat as if turned to stone . |
| 26 | Corbett quickly looked at Ranulf , who sat as if carved from stone , transfixed by their rapid questions like a spectator at some skilful sword fight . |
| 27 | St John jumped as if hit between the shoulders , then turned slowly and stiffly to face the speaker . |
| 28 | The shiny black central sphere flicked suddenly to one side , jumped as if touched , like an animalcule at the bottom of a microscope imprisoned by the tension of a viscous fluid . |
| 29 | Across the far side of the room , Shmuel Zehavi jumped as if goosed . |
| 30 | as if by a flash of lightning , I awoke as if struck by lightning ; this time again I spent the rest of the night working out the consequences . |