Example sentences of "be as if he have " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be as if he had never been taken in treason . |
| 2 | He 's just not there any longer ; and it 's as if he 'd never been , for none of the things he said are heard any longer either ; it 's a bad dream , and the Leader does n't have to sleep through it any more . ’ |
| 3 | It 's as if he 'd just had a snort of it . |
| 4 | It 's as if he has heroically outlined himself , Lee thought , become the most significant member of the group . |
| 5 | It 's as if he has been drawn outside himself by indignation ; transcended himself ; literally risen into the air above his own head , so that he can see beyond the confines of his own life . |
| 6 | It 's as if he has just noticed an extra thumb . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's as if he 's been wiped off the face of the earth ! ’ |
| 8 | It is as if he had spent several weeks at the headquarters of MI6 learning the techniques of counter-interrogation . |
| 9 | Every moment then has significance and an aura of delight surrounds everything and it is as if he had found a rare wellbeing and joy . |
| 10 | When the human voyager has freed himself from his fears and accomplished all his physiological needs , it is as if he has climbed out of a deep pit and reached the top of a high hill from where he sees a vast land stretching in every direction . |
| 11 | It was as if he 'd made up his mind about something yet was not sure if it was the right thing to do . |
| 12 | The Forest boss said : ‘ I watched him in five-a-side training and it was as if he 'd never been away . |
| 13 | It was as if he 'd gone into a different world . ’ |
| 14 | It was as if he 'd never seen a naked woman . |
| 15 | He could remember the first time that he 'd stepped outside into country darkness and closed the door behind him ; it was as if he 'd been struck blind with the click of the latch , and he 'd begun to panic at his inability even to tell which way was up . |
| 16 | Rohmer smiled again , and this time it was as if he 'd just heard the best news of the evening . |
| 17 | It was as if he 'd moved through a layer of reality and into something older , a prewar world of poor light and brown paint and damp walls . |
| 18 | It was as if he 'd crossed one of life 's bridges ; there was no going back , and the view was n't the same any more . |
| 19 | It was as if he 'd known — as if he 'd somehow been alerted to the fact that she was about to cave in , to spill the beans on their bogus relationship . |
| 20 | It was as if he 'd had a sudden glimpse of a side of himself he did n't know , a side that was dark and uncontrolled . |
| 21 | It was as if he had conceived a latterday , visual version of the sonnet or the haiku . |
| 22 | It was as if he had returned to the pavilion to celebrate with lemon barley water after a half-century . |
| 23 | When he took up his pen again , it was as if he had assumed the annihilating impact of that wave : his books , he said , ‘ must be read as if they were the books of a dead man ’ . |
| 24 | It was as if he had been waiting there for me all my life . |
| 25 | It was as if he had spoken a line from the wrong play . |
| 26 | It was as if he had released some dark and terrible secret which had been boiling within him . |
| 27 | It was as if he had mounted the wrong protest in the wrong place , or was simply the wrong person to do it . |
| 28 | It was as if he had removed her skeleton . |
| 29 | It was as if he had n't really wanted freedom , only to assert his right to be free if he chose , which is quite a different thing and has something both sad and comical about it . |
| 30 | It was as if he had been running a high temperature or tripped out of his head on acid . |