Example sentences of "[prep] [subord] [pron] [verb] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | And er video camera and lighting among them and er they look as if they 've been in place for hours . |
| 4 | The pressures of wedded bliss excluded Sadie as effectively from the life of her former friend as if they had been on different continents . |
| 5 | She asked him : ‘ What time is it ? ’ as if they had been in the middle of a conversation . |
| 6 | The corresponding amounts at the previous year end include its assets and liabilities at that date and show the shares issued by the group to acquire it as if they had been in issue then . |
| 7 | Tearing into the Instrument , some behave ‘ as if they had been in the schools , where each man had liberty to propose his own Utopia , and to frame commonwealths according to his own fancy … |
| 8 | The fittings here also looked as if they had been in service for a long time — probably salvaged from a demolition site . |
| 9 | It looked as if nobody had been to church that morning and she even began to wonder whether there would be any lunch . |
| 10 | It was as if she had been beyond the sky . |
| 11 | She felt as if she had been through a millrace , buffeted and whirled , but the one clear thought that ran through the inner tumult was the finally accepted fact that , with all her heart , she had wanted to say yes to Luke . |
| 12 | As she moved , her body ached as if she had been in a fight . |
| 13 | I think she thought I was crying at firs , I think I might have been , but then she started laughing too , with her face all twisted to one side as if she 'd been to the dentist , and she kept gasping and saying , " Ooh , it hurts ! |
| 14 | She appeared to have been holding a makeshift icepack to the side of her head and a couple of the cubes had skidded out of reach and begun to melt , almost as if she 'd been in too much of a hurry to stretch over for them . |
| 15 | But to her amazement he did nothing of the kind , but , shaking his head as if he had been under some kind of stress , ‘ I did n't think I could have got your innocence so completely wrong , ’ he stated gruffly . |
| 16 | His hair was grey , and his face lined and brown as if he had been in the sun for a long time . |
| 17 | She pushed herself back against the wall to avoid touching a man but as Owen pressed past her he was as conscious of her roundnesses and softnesses as if he had been in bed beside her . |
| 18 | He felt as if he 'd been inside a cell ever since his arrest , imprisoned within his own mind . |
| 19 | It took a long time to open it and when he drank , it tasted warm against his mouth , as if it had been in the sun ; only there was no sun , not even at fifteen thousand . |
| 20 | To Rachel that all now seemed as if it had been in another time , another world and it had only been in the last few days with the reappearance of David Markham that the memories had been revived . |
| 21 | Look — ’ he held aloft his battered , ink-bespattered copy — ‘ this one looks as if it 's been in use since the Boer War . ’ |
| 22 | It may seem as if it has been with us forever , but the ubiquitous American Express chargecard has , in fact , only been around for 35 years . |
| 23 | Elsie B graced me with a long chat which made me feel as if I 'd been in the presence of royalty , though I suspect not too many members of the Royal Family are at their desk as early as Elsie . |
| 24 | I can just hear your voice answering the phone , as if I 've been to the shop for some ciggies and I 'm back late . |
| 25 | A few sections of rail were lying on the bottom , several more were scattered on the ground and one was propped against the end of the trailer as if whoever had been in the act of loading or unloading had abandoned it in a hurry . |
| 26 | You look as if you 've been in a concentration camp you do ! and that 's the truth . |
| 27 | Am I to believe in it , that every response should come so neatly , as if you had been through the Gospels and marked all the places to trap each enquirer ? |
| 28 | He has been like that for since he 's been with her he has |