Example sentences of "[adv] as if [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they had reached St Matthew 's church he had followed her inside as naturally as if they had set out together that morning . |
| 2 | He had carried her in his arms as naturally as if he had been doing so for years , and she had felt right there . |
| 3 | Her garments were removed as swiftly as if she 'd done it herself . |
| 4 | He cleared the formidable Aintree fences as easily as if they had been hurdles . |
| 5 | That last bomb had taken out those houses as if it had come with a great grasping fist and scooped them up and crunched them into rubble as easily as if they 'd been made of matchsticks . |
| 6 | With a final darting glance to ensure that her appearance was in order she made her way as nervously downstairs as if it had been she herself about to marry . |
| 7 | Ray Shepherd looked up at them as coolly as if he had just driven in to work on a routine day . |
| 8 | ‘ Did you want me , Myra ? ’ she asked as calmly as if they had been discussing the weather and not within an ace of making either love or war . |
| 9 | It all looked delightfully cosy , with an en-suite bathroom , but Kate backed out of the room as quickly as if she 'd walked into a pit full of rattlesnakes . |
| 10 | Jessamy jumped back as quickly as if she had been shot . |
| 11 | It was long since Adam had thought of him so , and he gathered the warmth of their recollection to him as gratefully as if he had salved one bleached and solitary bone of the beloved right hand out of the Severn , and laid it back in holy ground . |
| 12 | There was ever-smiling Doctor Agrippa , hawk-visaged Carey , the thick coarsened face of Melford and , of course , Scawsby , his face sour as ever as if he had just broken wind and hoped no one would notice . |
| 13 | At the editorial conference Rain brushed aside Holly 's error of judgement as blithely as if it had been her own . |
| 14 | Complying with her appeal , Dada abandoned his kedgeree and , sucking his moustache inwards always with him a sign of annoyance he picked up the viburnum , still with its precious burden , opened the bottom sash of a long window , and flung out the double butterfly as viciously as if it had been a slug in the salad . |
| 15 | In a silence full of his broken intention , she caught the look , passing helplessly between him and Lalage — a look that joined her love and her friend as clearly as if she had found them in bed . |
| 16 | For Skaller saw everything again , as it had been then twenty-five years ago , as clearly as if it had been yesterday . |
| 17 | At once I can see Annexe B , Summerchild 's list of possible members of the Unit , as clearly as if it had just come out of the porridge oats box . |
| 18 | Apart from being baked hard by the heat of the lava , these sediments were quite undisturbed , and had been carried bodily as smoothly as if they had gone up in a lift . |
| 19 | And so it was as the " candidate " that he spoke to them , his accent so neutral by now that he could have come from anywhere and everywhere , his green broadcloth jacket still shabby but worn as jauntily as if it had been lined with ermine , his lean , dark face handsome enough to please the women and hard enough to reassure the men . |
| 20 | The demure Lily in her straw hat , a hat I could describe to you now , still , as well as if I had it here in front of me , the crown swathed in a pale tulle the colour of a summer haze … in a long-sleeved , high-necked , pink-and-white striped blouse … a dark-blue hobble skirt , beside whom I walked across Regent 's Park in the spring of 1914 . |
| 21 | She stayed in Danzig five or six weeks , to her daughter-in-law 's horror and embarrassment , since she had her cryings and roarings ‘ as well as if she had been at home ’ . |
| 22 | She saw it all as plainly as if it had been magically transported from Yorkshire and spread out on the quayside , the moors stretching away in the distance until they met the skyline . |
| 23 | They were uncertain of her , she could feel it as surely as if they 'd appointed a spokesman to stand up and tell her so . |
| 24 | Someone who knowingly touches another without his consent violates this personal right as surely as if he had taken his property . |
| 25 | More important , perhaps , he was in normal uniform , which grounded him as surely as if he had been chained to the nearest hangar door . |
| 26 | Just a frail little thing , was n't she , the wind could have picked her up and tossed her away , yet she had demolished him as surely as if she had wielded a pick-axe handle to his belly . |
| 27 | Drew her , as surely as if she had her on a string , unresisting , across the grass . |
| 28 | Through the brushed cotton of her sweater she could feel the pressure of his fingers , his touch scorching her as surely as if it had been on her bare skin . |
| 29 | The battery in your readers equipment could be a NiCad and it would be ruined if he had left it on , just as surely as if it had been a lead acid battery . |
| 30 | We shall see that , said I , and he answered unabashed , with the invisible instruments twanging and humming and jangling all over the room , ‘ You may see it , but you must not speak about this or anything that has passed here , for I have silenced you as surely as if I had cut out your tongue . ’ |