Example sentences of "[vb past] as if they [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Alexei Sultanov , a nineteen-year-old from the USSR , was finally declared the winner , he rushed up on stage and lifted his trophy over his head and yipped with glee and the people of Fort Worth stood and clapped as if they had been seized with divine ecstasy . |
| 2 | The meal that accompanied it was a feast , cooked and served by the patronne with justifiable pride : tiny moules marinières , which tasted as if they had been cut from the rocks that morning ; bifteck , brown and crisp on the outside , perfectly rare within ; a platter of thin crisp sizzling hot pommes frites ; an excellent salad , served in a plain white bowl . |
| 3 | Next day we were visited by a pod of dolphins which behaved as if they had escaped from a circus . |
| 4 | No other manufacturer would be so profligate in their use of fabric but the Ashleys behaved as if they had fabric to spare . |
| 5 | Instead they took refuge in the weaker claim that agents , on average over time , behaved as if they possessed the correct underlying model for the purposes of prediction . |
| 6 | McConnell claimed that the cannibal worms behaved as if they remembered the conditioned response their food had learned , whereas worms allowed to cannibalize other , untrained worms showed no such change in behaviour . |
| 7 | Then , as if to break the spell , the sheep dogs began to bark frenziedly and the nearby sheep stampeded as if they sensed impending danger . |
| 8 | It seemed as if they 'd been wrong about one thing and only too right about the other . |
| 9 | I knew so little about who had held them and how they had got out , it seemed as if they had come from a different world , a different time . |
| 10 | The two Highlanders grinned as if they understood every word , Carey smirked whilst Scawsby gave that neighing laugh which made the blood beat in my temples . |
| 11 | All four blushed as if they had one heart . |
| 12 | There was a filthy taste in his mouth and his lips felt as if they had been stung . |
| 13 | My legs felt as if they had gone to sleep : I trod painfully on nothing . |
| 14 | Why he felt as if they had just agreed to an illicit liaison he did not know , unless it was the air of sexual invitation this woman wore as other women wore perfume , the practised composition of glance and gesture that she used to imply everything whilst proposing nothing . |
| 15 | After a spell in the line men felt as if they belonged to some exclusive monastic order whose grim rites were simply beyond the comprehension of the laymen at the rear . |
| 16 | Abruptly , the dark head was bent to hers again , the compulsive brush of his lips against the side of her neck so searing it felt as if they grazed her skin . |
| 17 | They felt as if they 'd been scoured out with a Brillo pad . |
| 18 | Isobel was ambitious , and had her sights set on the national news media ; unfortunately , so did every other young news-hustler in every backwater station in the country , and few of them were having to contend with sinuses that felt as if they 'd been stuffed with pillows . |
| 19 | Around the inner walls the Annamese soldiers of the imperial guard , who looked as if they 'd stepped out of the pages of one of his adventure-story books , stood sentinel with their muskets . |
| 20 | Down at the far end of the valley , there was still snow on the upper slopes of the mountains ; they looked as if they 'd been sugar-dusted , with stone walls showing like fine , black veins above the treeline . |
| 21 | It looked as if they 'd been having a party and had just taken off in the middle of it . |
| 22 | Only two or three of the terminals were occupied , by guys who looked as if they 'd been up all night and who were already on to their second pack of cigarettes . |
| 23 | As local residents packed a meeting of Nailsworth Town Council in Gloucestershire , it looked as if they 'd lost their battle to save one of the town 's landmarks . |
| 24 | Taking the initiative , I led the way , following three skiers who looked as if they knew where they were going — they did n't , and we found ourselves poling for quite a long way before a unanimous decision to have an early lunch was taken . |
| 25 | Mr Michael Lyons , duty administrator at Guy 's , said they looked as if they had ‘ gone a couple of rounds with Frank Bruno ’ . |
| 26 | Some of them looked as if they had only just risen from their beds , as if this was breakfast time to them ; others had the look of people who had n't slept for a week . |
| 27 | I looked more closely at his cheeks , and saw that they looked as if they had been rubbed to get them red . |
| 28 | They looked as if they had been dressed in a hurry and not very suitably for a long walk on the headland , even in a warm autumn . |
| 29 | Mind you some of them looked as if they had never seen a woman before . |
| 30 | On every side table were empty beer bottles sitting sadly in rings of beer ; two empty glasses decorated the mantelpiece , and the piece of petrified driftwood which usually graced it had been shoved to the back , to make way for some empty plates which looked as if they had held meat and cheese . |