Example sentences of "if [pers pn] have just [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big one looked down at me as if I 'd just crawled out from under . |
| 2 | ‘ I would n't be if I 'd just lost twenty million , ’ Plummer said humourlessly . |
| 3 | As I got up Terry looked at me as if I 'd just announced I had a private income . |
| 4 | Actually , I missed some good ones in the couple of days ' holiday I took ; if I 'd just bothered to look at a single fucking news-stand after I left Stromeferry I 'd have seen this story starting to break about this guy — ‘ The Red panther ’ the tabloids decided on eventually — murdering these right-leaning pillars of the community . |
| 5 | I made sure I looked as if I 'd just got out of bed and dressed in a hurry — hence no socks and the sweatshirt — and went down to front garden to wave them in . |
| 6 | I think the other thing also , I found it a disadvantage actually having it on the table , I think if I 'd just left it on the like that |
| 7 | " It 's as if I 'd just taken a photograph . " |
| 8 | ‘ The whole thing was a perfectly natural mistake , but , thanks to him , they went on as if I 'd just attempted to rob the Bank of England . |
| 9 | How can I face people when I must look as if I 've just gone ten rounds with an all-in wrestler ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Damn it , stop looking as if I 've just hit you again ! |
| 11 | He giggles a sudden twit-giggle as if I 've just farted and scrunches up his flipping funny face as if the stitches in some private part have just popped open , and at that moment he is the very image of a nervous comic wreak . |
| 12 | The letter announcing my visit lay unopened on the mat when she opened the door , and an hour later I came away believing that I admired a woman who could , under these circumstances and in some pain , treat me as if I had just stepped round the corner for a packet of tea ten minutes before , and talk to me about this and that , and nothing at all . |
| 13 | I felt as if I had just given birth . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Feeling as if I had just won a gold medal , I ran home , carefully examined my treasure to find that the ‘ bone ’ handle was only painted tin . |
| 16 | ‘ Fuck off and leave you alone ! ’ echoed Quigley , as if I had just taken pi to sixteen decimal places off the top of my head . |
| 17 | ‘ Sprechen kommandant , bitte , privaten , ’ I said very slowly , as if I had just learned these words and found difficulty in repeating them . |
| 18 | Though the landscape was flat , it seemed , both visually and from the effort it was taking to move the wheelbarrow , that I was continually walking up a hill , but when I looked back , it was as if I had just walked down one . |
| 19 | Her heart raced like a riptide ; her ears rang and lights fizzed at the back of her eyes as if she 'd just dived deep into the bosom of Ocean . |
| 20 | Charlie was dead keen on Lilian doing him credit and she always did , always looked as if she 'd just stepped out of a bandbox . |
| 21 | Bad enough to feel the way she did , let alone have to spend time with a man who treated her as if she 'd just crawled from under a stone . |
| 22 | Her prosecutor was looking at her as if she 'd just crawled from under a stone . |
| 23 | She felt as if she 'd just escaped a raging tornado , flung to one side just in time . |
| 24 | She asked , ‘ What was that ? ’ as if she 'd just failed to catch some remark that Luke had made . |
| 25 | Marc made her feel as if she 'd just had a battle with a steamroller — but she was mildly pleased with herself . |
| 26 | She felt as guilty about running away as if she had just robbed a lame beggar of his last groat . |
| 27 | Meeting his eyes , their expression now cool and shuttered , Luce wondered if she had just imagined that blazing look . |
| 28 | She looked as stunningly elegant , as poised and assured — because even her slight nervousness seemed professional — as if she had just stepped out of a cabine at Dior . |
| 29 | Not if she had just moved . |
| 30 | Sybil made a faint tutting noise and shuddered , as if she had just discovered an unpleasant insect on one of her flowers . |