Example sentences of "[prep] if it [verb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | See they got on the lights so long of the day in the winter time and made them lay just like as if it 'd been summer . |
| 2 | This suspiciously hilarious incident sounds as if it had been polished in the telling , as many hooligan incidents are . |
| 3 | The payment would appear in your 1988 accounts , and in the Government 's accounts for 1988/89 , just as if it had been made in August . |
| 4 | Young lads gather round the car which looks as if it had been dead for days or weeks . |
| 5 | Every room in the house contained some form of Bible and I took up a large ancient looking one and opened it as if it had been a door into a cave . |
| 6 | It was dark with age and looked as if it had been coated with treacle . |
| 7 | He tried to scream the name but his throat felt as if it had been cauterized with a hot iron . |
| 8 | The children stared ravenously at her dress as if it had been spun out of sugar . |
| 9 | Remembered it VIVIDLY — as if it had been yesterday . |
| 10 | For that last half-hour of the day , the dunes became a deeper gold and were scored with the long shadows of palm trees , whose tops were so green that I fancied that if my arm had been long enough I could have plucked a leaf and eaten it as if it had been parsley . |
| 11 | The film cuts from the Black man writing on the blackboard to the grotesque ‘ nigger minstrel'-style head of a Guy , which , as if it had been lynched and hung , falls ominously to its chest . |
| 12 | At the end of one hour her back was aching as if it had been kicked all over by a mule ; but she went on doggedly , though it soon became absolute agony . |
| 13 | My dear , he was holding it exactly as if it had been a squashed blackbeetle , and I knew he 'd been criticizing me all evening . |
| 14 | Instead they acted as a brake on German economic power by milking the state of subsidy as if it had been set up for that purpose alone . |
| 15 | as if it had been swallowed up . |
| 16 | He took to the Cobra position as if it had been designed for him . |
| 17 | The Bill thus becomes unopposed and proceeds as if it had been unopposed throughout . |
| 18 | As such that undertaking was as obnoxious as if it had been contained in the articles of association , and was therefore unenforceable , being contrary to Art 131 of The Companies ( Northern Ireland ) Order 1986 . |
| 19 | ‘ The reader interprets the text as if it had been written in his own language , culture and time … . |
| 20 | He removed the stereo from his brother 's car , to make it look as if it had been stolen , before pushing it into a water-filled quarry . |
| 21 | Another surprise was that the helium-3 was not distributed uniformly throughout the metal , but appeared to be highly concentrated in small clusters as if it had been formed there . |
| 22 | The corpse looked as if it had been attacked by dagger-billed birds . |
| 23 | Her head felt as if it had been hit with a bag of cement , or replaced with one . |
| 24 | So he took it , and played something soft and sad , something plaintive and melancholy that rose up every third line as if it was going to shake off its sorrow and fly forward and free ; but then in the fourth it curled back on itself and fell again : reluctantly , sometimes , but always resignedly , as if it knew it was going to fall ; as if it had been striving and falling back again for hundreds of years . |
| 25 | The furniture , too , looked as if it had been gradually acquired over the years ; gifts , rejects , the unregarded remnants of long-forgotten jumble sales . |
| 26 | Her hair , which looked as if it had been inexpertly permed , was pulled back at the sides but frizzed over the high forehead in the poodle-like fashion of an Edwardian . |
| 27 | The house in California — it was in the Bel Air district of Los Angeles , I think — looked as if it had been flung by a giant hand against the side of a hill and had stuck . |
| 28 | The target may make the usual response just as if it had been charged in the normal manner . |
| 29 | This means that a premium paid during a tax year is treated as if it had been paid during the previous tax year ; or the tax year before that , if there were no relevant earnings in the previous year . |
| 30 | Rebecque suddenly sneezed again and , as if it had been a word of command , the French batteries resumed their cannonade . |