Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] if [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looks to me as if we 've forgotten how to retreat . |
| 2 | He stiffened when he saw them and Devlin said cheerfully , ‘ Very pretty , son , but it looks to me as if someone 's been spoiling your good looks . ’ |
| 3 | I did see him , though , standing , looking after me as if he 'd been struck , very quiet , very separate . |
| 4 | ‘ Cretin ’ , he glared at me as if I 'd said it . |
| 5 | As I got up Terry looked at me as if I 'd just announced I had a private income . |
| 6 | ( He gawped at me as if I 'd told him to swim the Atlantic . ) |
| 7 | The big one looked down at me as if I 'd just crawled out from under . |
| 8 | He looked at me as if I 'd crawled out from under the Axminster . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Tessa looked at me as if I had said something odd . |
| 12 | One of them kisses me as if I had won a prize for the most amusing and far-fetched story of the evening . |
| 13 | He looked at me as if I had trodden in something on the way in . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But the eastern Europeans have tried to put the past four decades behind them as if they had never existed . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He looked slightly past them as if they had already been and gone . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | There is a frisson between them as if they have discovered a game of role-playing which both find sexually stimulating . |
| 22 | At Puente Ruinas she lost her glasses and we all searched for them as if she had been our lifelong friend . |
| 23 | I 'll just tell you about if you have it splitting . |
| 24 | People look at you as if you 'd said you had plague . |
| 25 | After the service , she would find him loitering on the towpath , and he would join her as if they had n't parted . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ What ? ’ he said mock-innocently and drew away from her as if nothing had happened . |
| 29 | They stared at her as if she 'd turned into a circus freak . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . |