Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] if [pers pn] have " in BNC.

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1 It looks to me as if we 've forgotten how to retreat .
2 I did see him , though , standing , looking after me as if he 'd been struck , very quiet , very separate .
3 ‘ Cretin ’ , he glared at me as if I 'd said it .
4 As I got up Terry looked at me as if I 'd just announced I had a private income .
5 ( He gawped at me as if I 'd told him to swim the Atlantic . )
6 The big one looked down at me as if I 'd just crawled out from under .
7 He looked at me as if I 'd crawled out from under the Axminster .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Tessa looked at me as if I had said something odd .
11 One of them kisses me as if I had won a prize for the most amusing and far-fetched story of the evening .
12 He looked at me as if I had trodden in something on the way in .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 But the eastern Europeans have tried to put the past four decades behind them as if they had never existed .
17 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 .
18 He looked slightly past them as if they had already been and gone .
19 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 .
20 There is a frisson between them as if they have discovered a game of role-playing which both find sexually stimulating .
21 At Puente Ruinas she lost her glasses and we all searched for them as if she had been our lifelong friend .
22 I 'll just tell you about if you have it splitting .
23 People look at you as if you 'd said you had plague .
24 After the service , she would find him loitering on the towpath , and he would join her as if they had n't parted .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 They stared at her as if she 'd turned into a circus freak .
28 ‘ But clear that shit up , first , ’ he said , nodding toward her fallen tray and its spillage , and then he swung his chairback around to her as if she 'd ceased to exist .
29 Josie 's hand slid from around her as if she 'd been holding nothing more substantial than a wisp of smoke .
30 Bad enough to feel the way she did , let alone have to spend time with a man who treated her as if she 'd just crawled from under a stone .
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