Example sentences of "[prep] if he have just [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 And here they were , nearly twenty-odd children , gaping back at him as if he had just asked them to run through the periodic table .
2 He stopped at the foot of the stairs as if he had just escorted her there and was off somewhere else .
3 There he stood leaning against it , his arms outspread , one cheek pressed on to the black wood , with his breath coming in gasps , as if he had just surfaced from drowning .
4 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 .
5 He was gazing forwards and he looked as if he had just stepped on a drawing-pin .
6 He looked as if he had just stepped out of a drawing room in the shires .
7 Of similar vintage I can recall Billy Lane turning up for an open match on the Swadlincote waters , looking as if he had just stepped out of a time warp .
8 He looked as if he had just stepped straight out of one of those bespoke tailors in Saville Row in London 's West End .
9 He cocked his head to one side as if he had just realised something awful .
10 He felt as if he had just run fifty yards , rather quickly .
11 He sat back , breathing deeply , taking in the elegance of the shapes the boy had made , recollecting the startling originality of the boy 's strategies — as if he had just re-invented the game .
12 He was beginning to feel as if he had just switched roller-coasters — from one set of emotional turmoil to another .
13 He looked across at me with watery , beseeching eyes as if he had just told me the entire , intolerable story of his life .
14 There was , anyway , an atmosphere in this shop , an unpleasant feeling , as if he had just walked through a gateway into a world parallel to our own , where huge and unpleasant moral choices are offered , fought over and discussed .
15 He was aware of a slow feeling of triumph , a sense of release as if he had just won some physical competition ; without the fear there would n't have been this strange sense of excitement and content .
16 Rohmer smiled again , and this time it was as if he 'd just heard the best news of the evening .
17 ‘ Steve ! ’ she cried in amazement as he let himself into the apartment , grinning all over his silly face as if he 'd just popped out for a paper that morning and found he 'd won the state lottery .
18 ‘ Yes , ’ he said slowly , as if he 'd just completed a mental calculation , ‘ that 's quite right .
19 He was a red-faced man with a pitted complexion who always looked exhausted , as if he 'd just completed a marathon .
20 In deck shoes , casual close-fitting denim Bermudas , and black polo-shirt , his hair tousled as if he 'd just jumped off a boat , he looked very large and male and intimidating .
21 Roman dropped his arm from her shoulders , faced her as if he 'd just returned , mentally , from some distant place .
22 It 's as if he 'd just had a snort of it .
23 Joe appeared , looking as if he 'd just finished knocking the Army into shape , and the Navy as well .
24 Singer 's face was flushed as if he 'd just got out of a hot bath .
25 It 's as if he has just noticed an extra thumb .
26 When I quip that he sounds as if he has just come round from anaesthetic , Eva says , ‘ He has . ’
27 If you are at all normal , you bypass the urge to throttle him , or to shake him by the head and shout : ‘ What 's that got to do with anything ? ’ , and find yourself nodding in agreement as if he has just proved something .
28 So it sounds as if he 's just renewed it after a while .
29 He pulls a face as if he 's just sat on a chicken , as Peter Cook has just asked him what 's the most boring job he 's ever had .
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