Example sentences of "as if [pron] have [adv] happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are often advertised in the newspapers as ‘ bomb proof ! ’ ; no matter what occurs they will just continue their mild sweet way as if nothing had ever happened . |
| 2 | Then I washed and dried the two beer-mugs and the three vases , and put them back in their normal places , as if nothing had ever happened . |
| 3 | And for those people who are n't happy with what Stacker does anyway ( like our esteemed editor , for example ) , the package now comes with a useful Unstack feature so you can automatically return your system to its original state as if nothing had ever happened . |
| 4 | God , it was as if nothing had ever happened between them . |
| 5 | I mean someone who would just sit down and tell you things , as if they had just happened on the way home . |
| 6 | He saw himself , as in a mirror , lifting the black cloth from her white flesh , felt , as if it had already happened , the softness of her body closing around him . |
| 7 | The feeling almost wiped out that terrible year as if it had n't happened at all . |
| 8 | Sue 's skin , thought Marion , Sue 's skin , so why do I feel as if I 'm the one , as if it all happened in my room , as if it had all happened to me ? |
| 9 | Now , as if it had never happened before , Nicholas thanked the King , but not as the King wanted . |
| 10 | It was strange , the conversation Dad and I had , because when I saw him at home later and over the next few days he behaved as if it had never happened , as if he had n't told me he 'd fallen in love with someone else . |
| 11 | He did n't know the doctor and was very disorientated and frightened for the rest of that day and the next ; but on the following one it was as if it had never happened . |
| 12 | As they spoke , neither of them reminded each other of their passion a few hours earlier ; it was as if it had never happened . |
| 13 | All rich , strange and remote , as if it had never happened or had happened to another person . |
| 14 | as if it had never happened , he continued in the same tone : ‘ You are a foolish child , to come here with your toys . ’ |
| 15 | Obviously he was the kind of man who could expunge an unsatisfactory incident from his memory as if it had never happened , and get on with living in the present . |
| 16 | She could n't resist embroidering the description , seeing it all in her mind as if it had really happened . |
| 17 | We shall carry on as if it has not happened . |