Example sentences of "as if i had [be] " in BNC.

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1 He moved a leg to scratch — innocently ? — his bulging crotch , and the knee just touched mine beneath the table , as if accidentally , and I felt as if I had been touched by lightning .
2 It was as if I had been expecting visitors .
3 By the time I left his office , I felt as if I had been an established outside-left for years , ’ Bastin later recalled .
4 It felt as if I had been living in a room with closed curtains , and all of a sudden its windows had been thrown open and the sun had come bursting in .
5 I was feeling winded , as if I had been shot .
6 I felt my lip curl , and the inside of my mouth dry out and tighten as if I had been sucking lemons .
7 I felt as if I had been hit .
8 ‘ You did n't tell me you could ride , ’ she said , rather irritated , as if I had been keeping a secret from her .
9 I have sometimes gone into it when the King was absent from Delhi and once pretty far I thought , for the purpose of giving my advice in the case of a great lady so ill that she could not be moved to the outward gate ; but a Kachemire shawl covered my head , hanging like a large scarfe down to my feet , and a eunuch led me by the hand , as if I had been a blind man .
10 And now this feeling , as if I had been deftly
11 She simply tells me something , as if I had been there all the time .
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