Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [conj] i had " in BNC.
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| 1 | My heart was thumping as if I had run a race and there was a pain in my back . |
| 2 | When I eventually did get home , though , I remembered most of those I had forgotten as if I had not been away . |
| 3 | When Maria knocked on the door at half past five I woke as if I had a hangover . |
| 4 | I did n't accept er the opportunity to retire and take it easy , it seemed as if I had worked twenty seven years for nothing ! |
| 5 | ( I learned from this experience that rigor mortis takes much longer to set in than I had supposed ; quite some time , in fact . ) |
| 6 | Well I 'd rather give to if I had any children I 'd have give to them . |
| 7 | I 'd swap my vest and plasters for a Marks and Spencer circle-stitched bra , a rigid , pointed contraption that made me look as if I had a couple of ice-cream cones up my jumper : I could never fill them to the end ( not even on a good day ) and the last waltz would result in dents in the ends . |
| 8 | I was trying to look as if I had n't tried to look pretty . |
| 9 | It was a figure in a mask and a jacksuit with all this gear in pockets all over it , and she had a headset , and one for me , one like I would have had on if I had n't taken off in such a hurry , and she had jets , which no Gnat would have been seen dead with . |
| 10 | And the singing of birds I had heard a thousand times , thrushes , blackbirds in our London garden , I heard as if I had never heard them before . |
| 11 | Feel as if I had lived a long time and done very little . |
| 12 | I was horrified by these disclosures and indeed spent rather a troubled night reflecting on whether I had any duty to express my view . |
| 13 | He moved a leg to scratch — innocently ? — his bulging crotch , and the knee just touched mine beneath the table , as if accidentally , and I felt as if I had been touched by lightning . |
| 14 | I felt as if I had just given birth . |
| 15 | By the time I left his office , I felt as if I had been an established outside-left for years , ’ Bastin later recalled . |
| 16 | It felt as if I had been living in a room with closed curtains , and all of a sudden its windows had been thrown open and the sun had come bursting in . |
| 17 | I felt as if I had singlehandedly wrecked San Francisco . |
| 18 | ‘ I felt as if I had seen something unclean , ’ Cecil concluded , ‘ so fearful in its cold frenzy that one blanched , asphyxiated in so nauseous an atmosphere . ’ |
| 19 | I had no friends , I felt as if I had nobody . " |
| 20 | I felt as if I had been hit . |
| 21 | It was nice , people were so kind , offering encouragement and congratulations for what had been achieved ; I almost felt as if I had done it all . |
| 22 | He laughed as if I had said something annihilatingly funny and kneaded my hand gently against his thigh . |
| 23 | I shivered as if I had an actual fever , smoked a dozen cigarettes and drank half a bottle of Cyprus sherry . |
| 24 | I suspect now that you know I mean I they might still to move given to one or two of my family members , but basically I could more openly say you know that in fact I suppose my view in Britain but not in Australia but my view in Britain is okay , the Royal Family could continue to exist they must A pay taxes B I do n't genuflect to any of them and C we 've got ta put them in perspective they 're in which is they 're a tourist attraction erm you know but I and I can make those comments which would be met by a lot of Britons with hostility , people who would totally disagree with me and say well they are the Royals and you know bow , bow , bow , but others would agree with me and that is something that has changed over the last three decades it really has , it 's changed during , during my absence in Australia , it is something you know that I came back to and I mean I kept , I 've been back about three or four weeks and there 's a pro I mean there 's some delightful radio programmes here comedy , political comedy shows and there was one show I listened to and I had been back a couple of weeks and it was about erm the Queen had a P R issue and she had to sort of do something about it , so she decided they 'd have a public execution of Edward and they described Edward was a cream puff and they the Queen and and er Andrew and everybody else was on the balcony at er Buck House and the crowds are cheering and the rolled and the the execution . |
| 25 | I felt my lip curl , and the inside of my mouth dry out and tighten as if I had been sucking lemons . |
| 26 | I write about Agnes , I try to imagine her , I let her sit on a bench in the sauna , walk around Paris , leaf through a magazine , talk with her husband , but the thing that started it all , the gesture of a woman waving to a lifeguard by the side of a pool , it must seem as if I had forgotten that . |
| 27 | He was n't sure who I was talking about and I had difficulty myself in recognising this creature of so many years before . |
| 28 | Yes I would care for when I had to do something , rather than just go straight into that , good |