Example sentences of "had [vb pp] as if [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I waited , but he had stopped as if he thought he had said it all . |
| 2 | Or had looked as if he minded more . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When I eventually did get home , though , I remembered most of those I had forgotten as if I had not been away . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In the scorching heat she had felt as if she would pass out ; now she wished she had . |
| 12 | 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 " . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She had behaved as if she was quite prepared to be Alain 's , and she could not think of any reply at all . |
| 17 | The pod and chutes had disappeared as if they had never existed . |
| 18 | Even Scouse 's latrine had disappeared as if it had never been there . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I was glad he had spoken as if he wanted to , but I felt I should apologize , once they had gone . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |