Example sentences of "[prep] if you [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The staff say you always look as if you 've been sleeping in haystacks these days . |
| 2 | ‘ My word , ’ said the sergeant , gazing at her blackened face and hands and torn frock , ‘ you look as if you 've been climbing trees . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ And you 're dirty and sloppy and you look as if you 've been dragged backwards through a hedge , the lot of you ! |
| 4 | That way it will look as if you 've been asking around about me . ’ |
| 5 | You look as if you 've been bickering with a volcano . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Sounds as if you 've been waiting a long time , ’ she said soothingly . |
| 7 | You look as if you 've been in a concentration camp you do ! and that 's the truth . |
| 8 | Every area you look at South Africa in a report I gave to the Norwegian government which they commissioned we pointed out every area is like a major disaster area as if you 've been hit by an earthquake in every area of human activity and that situation needs something like a martial plan if we are , a martial aid plan , if we 're to address it but in the world we live in there 's no prospect of such assistance coming to Southern Africa . |
| 9 | ‘ Sounds as if you 've been making a few plans , Mr Calder ! ’ |
| 10 | You look as if you 've been washing your face in soup . |
| 11 | it 's as if you 've been anaesthetized ! |
| 12 | And although we often hear about different jobs being of different sorts of status , they 're on a ladder of status , its for unemployed people the situation is very often as if you 've actually been kicked off this ladder and this is what people say when they describe being unemployed as being on the scrap heap and so on , it 's as if you 've been expelled from this particular world where erm people respect you for having a job and know that you 're contributing . |
| 13 | This counts as if you had been earning exactly the amount of the LEL . |
| 14 | It 's as if you had been given not one vote , but a fifth of a vote . |
| 15 | Am I to believe in it , that every response should come so neatly , as if you had been through the Gospels and marked all the places to trap each enquirer ? |
| 16 | You seem as if you have been taking the walk in the rain . |
| 17 | But surely to if you 've been working with your partner for a long time he 's gon na it anyway |