Example sentences of "[verb] as though he had " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't mean to rub it in , but again I glanced unthinkingly at my watch and the little man winced as though he had received a blow . |
| 2 | Tutilo did not look up until they were very close , and then blinked and peered as though he had difficulty in recognizing even a well-known face . |
| 3 | ‘ It looks as though he had a woman friend ; he refers to her as ‘ M ’ . |
| 4 | He behaved as though he had n't seen Ellie , as though she did n't exist , and she felt a lump come into her throat , felt hurt , and diminished , which was so stupid . |
| 5 | He 'd looked as though he had expensive tastes . |
| 6 | Why did he feel as though he had just run his sword through the heart of something small and desperately struggling for survival ? |
| 7 | Moving Out certainly shaped as though he had a future at the winter game on his reappearance in a very hot race over two miles at Haydock earlier in the month . |
| 8 | His body was arched as though he had been forced to retreat . |
| 9 | The rehearsal had gone well , and it seemed as though he had successfully jumped the chasm between off- and on-Broadway . |
| 10 | Gurder was looking as though he had seen a ghost . |
| 11 | It was almost eleven before he appeared , looking as though he had n't slept at all . |
| 12 | He did not look as though he had any money in his pockets at all . |
| 13 | I 'll come and pick you up , ’ I said , not out of courtesy , but because Purvis did n't look as though he had the strength to carry even a dozen records . |
| 14 | " He does n't look as though he had much to bother about , living here . " |
| 15 | He did n't even look as though he had heard . |
| 16 | And he looked in quite good form did Bob and he did n't look as though he had too many worries and then this happens and you wonder just whether it was n't premeditated rather than in haste . |
| 17 | The best moment on ‘ Strangeways , Here We Come ’ was , strangely , the most obvious statement Morrissey ever made in a lyric , ‘ Paint A Vulgar Picture ’ offered no new insights to the tacky edge of such a subject , but it did sound as though he had finally decided to cast away all the ambiguity of his writing and head , simplistically , for the jugular . |
| 18 | Her gaze flicked over Riven cursorily , and he stiffened as though he had been struck . |
| 19 | She noticed that he walked as though he had pebbles in his shoes . |
| 20 | He winked at me and then scowled as though he had thought better of it . |
| 21 | She flinched as though he had struck her . |
| 22 | He talked as though he had learnt Latin constructions before English . |
| 23 | Hazel and Blackberry turned and scuttled up the nearest run as though he had been a ferret . |
| 24 | Now , in the sudden silence , Tug felt as though he had been stripped naked and pushed out into a football crowd . |
| 25 | It felt as though he had been fed through a mincing machine . |
| 26 | He knew so little of women that he felt as though he had woken up to find himself halfway across a vast mountain in a blizzard without map or rope or compass . |
| 27 | But he did not touch her , though it felt as though he had , as his hand curved round the outline of her breast . |
| 28 | She felt as though he had flung her into hell . |
| 29 | Indeed during the finale , at the rate his arm whirled over his Fender strings , it looked as though he had caught the tail end of Hurricane Hugo during their US tour . |
| 30 | As they wept around his coffin , one relative who said she had dressed the body , said : ‘ It looked as though he had been tortured . ’ |