Example sentences of "[prep] [subord] he have [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't as if he had asked for a fee , he had gone to the school for nothing , out of the goodness of his heart . |
| 2 | His head was buried in the sand , hands and feet spread out , as if he had fallen from a great height . ’ |
| 3 | He made it seem as if he had gone to New Orleans drunk , got sober and wrote a book . |
| 4 | His face was unshaved and the hands , rigidly clamped together in his lap , were grubby , as if he had gone to bed unwashed . |
| 5 | He still looked as if he had escaped from a major car crash . |
| 6 | It was as if he had fainted in his sleep and the recovery from the faint made the level of sleep seem reality by comparison . |
| 7 | He all but bumped into the couple , but , just in time , he arrested his progress , drew back , seemed , for an instant , to seek for oxygen as if he had emerged from some physical deep of ocean , looked about him at the mundane world he had re-entered and then , with rapid dignity , collected himself . |
| 8 | He looked old and forlorn , in spite of the ferocious beard , as if he had hoped for something and been disappointed . |
| 9 | It was as if he had turned into a block of ice . |
| 10 | He felt as if he had walked for miles and knew that he had certainly had too much to drink . |
| 11 | My most abiding memory will not be of the joy of the French , but the terrible sight of Pete Sampras ' face at the prize giving ceremony which looked as if he had come into intimate contact with an atom bomb . |
| 12 | Then it was as if he had come to a decision . ’ |
| 13 | Then one day , just as if he had come upon her accidentally , he had said , ‘ You play very well . |
| 14 | It was as if he had put on the quality of maleness like a flamboyant cloak . |
| 15 | It was as if he had returned to the pavilion to celebrate with lemon barley water after a half-century . |
| 16 | For a month or so it looked as if he had succeeded in defusing the time bomb , but soon Catholic leaders were arguing that nothing was really changing . |
| 17 | as if he had triggered off a signal the doorbell rang . |
| 18 | He felt as if he had left behind forever the world of crime and hardship and poverty . |
| 19 | It was as if he 'd gone into a different world . ’ |
| 20 | Despite the casual modern clothes he wore , he looked as if he 'd stepped from some early-Renaissance painting . |
| 21 | It was as if he 'd moved through a layer of reality and into something older , a prewar world of poor light and brown paint and damp walls . |
| 22 | It seemed as if he 'd thought of everything . |
| 23 | When her sight cleared , she saw Adam on his feet , off balance , as if he 'd started round the table towards her . |
| 24 | Rayleen looked at him as if he 'd dropped from behind peeling wallpaper . |
| 25 | It was almost as if he 'd vanished into thin air . |
| 26 | Sachin Tandulkar , Yorkshire 's first-ever overseas player , does his best to look as if he has lived in the northern county all his life |
| 27 | ‘ But Harriet , it sounds as if he has gone into hiding again . |
| 28 | No amount of ingenuity with a bottle of Timotei is going to disguise the fact that , once out of the car , your average speedster looks as if he has reversed through a hedge . |
| 29 | It was rather like when he had gone to Paris for the first time when he was eighteen . |
| 30 | For the abrupt , hasty manner of Pound 's criticism seems to some readers to carry the implication ( to which Pound in fact did not subscribe ) that no critic is worth listening to unless he has laboured at the maker 's workbench ; that all worthwhile criticism of stories comes from story-tellers , that only poets are worth listening to about poems . |