Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] i [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do feel that this is necessary because we are allocating or just allocating our proposed budget er a substantial amount of extra resources through the rights of way which I am thoroughly in favour of but I do think we need to know how that money is going to be used and which of the items which are to appear in the report are going to be covered by that money and which is still going to need to be addressed next year when we have to book in time for it for next year . |
| 2 | ‘ I felt as if I had seen something unclean , ’ Cecil concluded , ‘ so fearful in its cold frenzy that one blanched , asphyxiated in so nauseous an atmosphere . ’ |
| 3 | It was nice , people were so kind , offering encouragement and congratulations for what had been achieved ; I almost felt as if I had done it all . |
| 4 | She nodded again , as if I had answered her . |
| 5 | At Oxford , it had often discomposed me , as if I had said something foolish or affected , unworthy of comment . |
| 6 | He laughed as if I had said something annihilatingly funny and kneaded my hand gently against his thigh . |
| 7 | Tessa looked at me as if I had said something odd . |
| 8 | Soon it was as if I had imagined everything . |
| 9 | He laughed softly , with pleasure , as if I had fed him the right cue . |
| 10 | They had people to do that for them half the time , there was no need for it , but it was as if I had to earn my keep , I had to repay what they 'd done for me , with the people that worked there laughing at me behind my back , wondering where I 'd come from , thinking maybe I was no better than them . |
| 11 | There was a silence , as if I had asked him a very profound question . |
| 12 | It was too absurd — the invitation , then this curt dismissal , as if I had exhausted his patience . |
| 13 | The events of the week-end seemed to recede , to become locked away , as if I had dreamt them ; and yet as I walked there came the strangest feeling , compounded of the early hour , the absolute solitude , and what had happened , of having entered a myth ; a knowledge of what it was like physically , moment by moment , to have been young and ancient , a Ulysses on his way to meet Circe , a Theseus on his journey to Crete , an Oedipus still searching for his destiny . |
| 14 | I felt awful , as if I had hurt him . |
| 15 | The idea struck him as somehow absurd , as if I had told him I did n't have a head or a heart . |
| 16 | Now I live in a painful planet , transparent as ice ; but it is as if I had learned everything in seconds … |
| 17 | The leader nodded as if I 'd said something deeply wise , confirming his faith in me . |
| 18 | ‘ Cretin ’ , he glared at me as if I 'd said it . |
| 19 | ‘ Tod Richardson , ’ I repeat , speaking flatly , nodding to Vinnie Dirkin as if I 'd guessed it all the while . |
| 20 | I tried to look as if this was perfectly normal , as if I 'd asked him to make the entry for me . |
| 21 | Whenever I smiled , he smiled back happily as if I 'd given him something . |
| 22 | Patterson 's eyes flickered as if I 'd given him a straw to grasp , but I pressed on . |
| 23 | I think that I was also over-confident when going into that river as if I 'd done it all before and was some sort of expert . |
| 24 | I felt as if I 'd handed him a loaded shotgun and said shoot . ’ |
| 25 | They behaved as if I 'd got something to do with the wretched man 's disappearance . |
| 26 | I snapped my fingers as if I 'd forgotten something . |
| 27 | ( He gawped at me as if I 'd told him to swim the Atlantic . ) |
| 28 | I just said it as if I 'd known it all along . |
| 29 | It seems , on looking back , one day I was outside and then the next day I was in , as if I 'd had nothing to do with it : I had been pushed or drawn or whatever you like . |
| 30 | It not as if I 've done anything wrong . ’ |