Example sentences of "as if [pron] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Matters in fact agreed at the winter meeting were kept secret and brought before the summer one " as if nothing had been previously worked out concerning them " . |
| 2 | In men , cats and rats , the prevention of REM sleep by selective awakenings results in increased amounts of this sleep stage on recovery , as if what had been " missed " was then being " made up " , suggesting that not only does this sleep stage have its own drive mechanism , but it may have an important function . |
| 3 | I f I shall feel as if we 've been from here cos when I was first married we lived up round the next road . |
| 4 | There was an immediate rapport , as if we 'd been friends for years , and that happens only rarely . |
| 5 | The driver seemed as concerned to show off his excessive acceleration as if we had been prospective buyers and he a salesman . |
| 6 | They were considered lawful game for these men as if we had been conquered . |
| 7 | Looking back , I find it interesting that our exchanges were consistently humorous , as if we had been rehearsing for a Wit and Wisdom contest . |
| 8 | Why , then , does a contemplation of his life and work leave us feeling zestful rather than discouraged , as if we have been brushed by someone with an incorrigible belief in happiness ? |
| 9 | They felt as if they 'd been scoured out with a Brillo pad . |
| 10 | They were soon strolling with me round the house as if they 'd been expecting me for weeks . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was as if they 'd been ordered not to be taken alive . ’ |
| 14 | The crushing weariness was a formidable enemy , though , and she felt her eyelids drooping as if they 'd been weighted . |
| 15 | It looked as if they 'd been having a party and had just taken off in the middle of it . |
| 16 | His jeans looked as if they 'd been slashed with a knife . |
| 17 | Davide threw himself on it to stop her pulling it off altogether with the bowl of fruit and the jug of water and glasses with it ; so they grappled , and in the contact something gave way , melted within them both and they clung together , aching in their heads and their bones as if they 'd been caught out on the mountains in the winter and been chilled to the marrow . |
| 18 | He 'd lost weight , his eyes were staring and red as if they 'd been rolled in grit , and his clothes hung on him like a scarecrow 's ; it was almost as if , in the course of the past few weeks , he 'd been drained of the zest and the energy and the sense of confidence that she 'd steadily been picking up . |
| 19 | Well when I was down at the er council that May , I told them there and then that er I 'm prepared to er let one of the council men come to our house , about eight o'clock in the morning , and then stop till ten and then come back again about two and wait till they come home from school which they would n't have come home from school , but they go across the road and come back again , double back as if they 'd been to school |
| 20 | Though his features looked as if they 'd been carved from stone , in the depths of his gaze something stirred . |
| 21 | The third she found broken , knocked over on to its side , the water dripping from a puddle on the windowsill on to a seat below and through that on to the floor , and the flowers scattered and brown-edged , as if they 'd been picked for their beauty and freshness by a little girl and then loosed regardlessly on the path from her sticky hands as she ran off to do something else . |
| 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 | She was wearing biker leathers and cowboy boots which all looked as if they 'd been applied with the aid of a shoehorn . |
| 24 | It seemed as if they 'd been wrong about one thing and only too right about the other . |
| 25 | Most of the flowerbeds that look as if they 've been there forever were in fact made after Peter 's death . |
| 26 | The graphics look as if they 've been ported directly across from a Spectrum . |
| 27 | It looks as if they 've been washed . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's almost as if they 've been told to keep their distance . ’ |
| 29 | Sometimes my tears are so hot they feel as if they 've been baking inside me , sometimes they feel bigger and wetter , sometimes rather lighter and not so salty . |
| 30 | Well do do n't look as if they 've been used does it ? |