Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] she [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All their eyes were turned on Rose but she , with just a glance at Moran , took up the Second Mystery as if she had been saying it with them all the nights of their lives . |
| 2 | It was again as if she had been struck , her hands barely moving along the surface of the dresser she had been wiping clean of dust , her head going low , and when she finished she went to put the damp cloth carefully beside the sink , moving a simmering saucepan from the hotplate . |
| 3 | When she finally reached the scribbling engine , she felt as if she had been broken in two and glued back together again all wrong . |
| 4 | It could only be about eight o'clock — her old-fashioned watch , unwound this morning , had stopped — but she felt as if she had been up all night , working to meet an insane deadline . |
| 5 | And it looked as if she had been stabbed with a weapon that had a central rib ; the wound gaped quite a bit in the middle . |
| 6 | At Puente Ruinas she lost her glasses and we all searched for them as if she had been our lifelong friend . |
| 7 | And when she said , ‘ I might need to , and then I 'd just walk out , ’ Agnes was round the table as if she had been shot there and , holding her sister by the shoulders , she cried at her , ‘ Do n't do that , Jessie ! |
| 8 | As the shop door closed behind her , Miss Belle , speaking breathlessly as if she had been running , said , ‘ We 've been on the look-out for you . |
| 9 | Breeze sat as if she had been turned to stone . |
| 10 | She felt heavy-lidded and drowsy , as if she had been asleep for a week . |
| 11 | As she moved , her body ached as if she had been in a fight . |
| 12 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
| 13 | Now wide awake , and breathing as if she had been running , she put her hand up to her brow and knew that the cold wetness she felt was sweat not blood . |
| 14 | Her face looked anguished as if she had been secretly angry and victimized for a very long time and it was just beginning to seep out . |
| 15 | ‘ It leaves a hell of a hangover , ’ said Mrs Ridley , and Lee felt relieved as if she had been ashamed of her suffering and had had it authenticated at last . |
| 16 | It was as if she had been waiting for this moment for four years or more . |
| 17 | Unbelievable as it seemed to him , she almost looked as if she had been crying . |
| 18 | Yet she had timed her appearance so exactly that it seemed as if she had been forewarned of the train 's arrival . |
| 19 | She had n't moved or made a sound , just opened her eyes in the red-tinged darkness and seen him there without surprise as if she had been aware of his presence ever since he arrived . |
| 20 | After putting a trial foot several times in the river , Harriet launched herself and swam as if she had been used to water all her life . |
| 21 | She slipped off the edge of the bed as if she had been injected with new life . |
| 22 | At once it opened , as if she had been standing there waiting for the summons . |
| 23 | She smiled back then looked away quickly as if she had been caught doing something wrong . |
| 24 | Then she kissed Auntie Lou on the cheek and said , ‘ Thank you , oh I do thank you , ’ and Auntie Lou smiled and blushed as if she had been given a present . |
| 25 | She stripped it angrily off again , and put back the sweat shirt , and with it a feeling of appropriateness and even virtue , as if she had been tempted briefly by the forbidden . |
| 26 | But after that seemingly unpropitious start , Topaz settled into the routine at Yelton as if she had been there all her life . |
| 27 | In the end , he simply stared at her , shaking his head as if she had been the one to ask the question . |
| 28 | It was as if she had been beyond the sky . |
| 29 | ‘ I noticed , ’ she said , reaching out to touch him — and pulling away as if she had been stung as the telephone rang inside the house . |
| 30 | Her face was pale , far paler than he remembered , as if she had been ill . |