Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] if [pers pn] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | a very uncomfortable thing for me occurred — There were quite enough queens to register Casanova impotent , and yet every one of them shied away from me as if I had the plague . |
| 2 | The letter announcing my visit lay unopened on the mat when she opened the door , and an hour later I came away believing that I admired a woman who could , under these circumstances and in some pain , treat me as if I had just stepped round the corner for a packet of tea ten minutes before , and talk to me about this and that , and nothing at all . |
| 3 | Tessa looked at me as if I had said something odd . |
| 4 | One of them kisses me as if I had won a prize for the most amusing and far-fetched story of the evening . |
| 5 | He looked at me as if I had trodden in something on the way in . |
| 6 | At Ångelholm , we were joined by two more people , a grim-looking older woman all in black , who looked as if she had n't smiled since 1937 and who spent the entire journey watching me as if she had seen my face on a wanted poster , and by a fastidious older man who I guessed to be a recently retired schoolmaster and took an instant dislike to . |
| 7 | Everyone , including the Indians , seemed to be happy and laughing , and in my surly mood I unkindly wished them all in hell — chiefly because no one was in any hurry to serve me and I had to sit and watch a party at the next table consume a feast that looked to me as if it had issued straight from Nirvana , before I was even shown a menu . |
| 8 | In fact Major Wiseman 's letter preserves an inaccurate memory — not surprising after so long — of the actual circumstances , for it conflates the events of twelve days and relates them as if they had happened on the same night . |
| 9 | But the eastern Europeans have tried to put the past four decades behind them as if they had never existed . |
| 10 | Old Joseph was glad he kept the Christmas cards from his son and daughter in 1987 , for every year since then he has taken them out and displayed them as if they had come in with the post . |
| 11 | He looked slightly past them as if they had already been and gone . |
| 12 | A very new officer ( judged by the colour of his drill shorts , which had a yellow rookie look about them as if they had come straight out of Millett 's window ) appeared in his drill which was never meant for him ; it was meant for a much larger person . |
| 13 | At Puente Ruinas she lost her glasses and we all searched for them as if she had been our lifelong friend . |
| 14 | After the service , she would find him loitering on the towpath , and he would join her as if they had n't parted . |
| 15 | When Melinda answered him in fluent Arabic , they all looked at her as if they had seen a ghost , bade us goodnight , and melted away into the darkness again . |
| 16 | It felt to her as if they had just unlocked the key to the whole universe , but she had a feeling that was not what he meant . |
| 17 | She was n't saying anything , but Ma smiled at her as if she had done something very clever . |
| 18 | This trick took hours of practice , up and down the landing at the hostel while the other girls looked at her as if she had taken leave of her senses . |
| 19 | The sadness seemed to extinguish her as if she had no real eyes or fingers or genitals or teeth or frown-lines or kidneys but these were just slight irregularities in the sponge that was her sadness . |
| 20 | The bounce went out of her as if she had burst . |
| 21 | Her friend greeted her as if she had never been away , so the guilt evaporated and she began to talk about Nicky . |
| 22 | She had just had the most beautiful experience of her whole life and Roman was looking at her as if she had cheated him . |
| 23 | Luke was still staring at her as if she had gone mad . |
| 24 | Luke 's arms came round her as if she had summoned him by saying his name , and she could n't continue . |
| 25 | Mitch glared at her as if she had ordered him back all by herself . |
| 26 | Her husband , suffering in his own quite different way , looked at her as if she had gone crazy . |
| 27 | Travis stared at her as if she had indeed gone crazy . |
| 28 | He flung her hands away from him as if they had become loathsome . |
| 29 | Benny had stared at him as if she had never seen him before . |
| 30 | Benedicta , cooler and more composed , was listening attentively to some story the nobleman was telling her , though now and again moving slightly away from him as if she had come to resent the young gallant 's attentions . |