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Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] as if [pron] " in BNC.

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1	It was no wonder she 'd looked as if she 'd aged , she thought guiltily , and no wonder she 'd looked miserable ; the poor woman did n't have too much to look happy about .
2	She 'd looked as if she 'd seen the devil himself .
3	She 'd felt as if she 'd been fighting with Guy Sterne all her life !
4	He 'd sounded as if he really believed in Angelica 's death .
5	He 'd spoken as if nothing had happened , she realised , too stunned and distraught to retaliate .
6	He 'd spoken as if he thought she was in the habit of collecting fiancés and engagement-rings .
7	You 'd lived as if your time was infinite :
8	I waited , but he had stopped as if he thought he had said it all .
9	Or had looked as if he minded more .
10	He had never physically hurt her , although there had been more than one occasion towards the end of their short , fraught marriage when he had looked as if he were making a huge effort to stop himself raising a hand to her .
11	When he opened the scoring , it came as no surprise , for it had looked as if he 'd be the one to do it from the start .
12	At one point it had looked as if she might have been forced to live at home with her parents , and much as Rachel loved them she knew that arrangement just would n't work .
13	From what Wayne had been able to see of her left eye , it had looked as if it had a couple of drops of blood in it .
14	He had killed one girl and now , because another was missing , they had come as if he had called them , as if they were his slaves .
15	When I eventually did get home , though , I remembered most of those I had forgotten as if I had not been away .
16	So many times she had felt as if he had just steamrollered his way right over her , refusing to listen to her arguments , just using his overpowering physical and mental strength to get his own way .
17	Earlier I had felt as if I was being torn in two , but now the decision was made , I was floating on a warm tide of physical ease , as if I had just given birth .
18	In the scorching heat she had felt as if she would pass out ; now she wished she had .
19	In the first round of the championship , Miss Minoprio had frightened the life out of one , Miss Summerville , who later explained to the press that she had felt as if she were playing " a supernatural being " .
20	If MacArthur had acted as if he thought he was Napoleon , John Foster Dulles , a bleak , remote and charmless human being , acted as if he was , at least , another St Paul .
21	For fifty years Massachusetts had behaved as if its possession of its own charter made it into something very like an independent state , and the Stuarts set out to reduce its power .
22	At home they had behaved as if she were a toddler going to a first party in a party frock rather than a huge ungainly student eighteen years of age going to university dressed from head to toe in dark clothes .
23	She had behaved as if she was quite prepared to be Alain 's , and she could not think of any reply at all .
24	The pod and chutes had disappeared as if they had never existed .
25	Even Scouse 's latrine had disappeared as if it had never been there .
26	It was the first physical contact between them for four years , but for just an instant it had seemed as if it had only been yesterday when she had last touched him .
27	They had spoken as if I were n't there , which in a way I was n't , as other passengers were moving round me , all asking the same questions .
28	I was glad he had spoken as if he wanted to , but I felt I should apologize , once they had gone .
29	It was as if she stood in a noisy limbo ; all the yesterdays had gone as if they had never been and all the tomorrows were no more than a tantalising promise .
30	At Oxford he had gained a First in Greats , for which , according to a contemporary , he had worked as if he were taking a chartered accountancy exam .