Example sentences of "they [vb past] as if [pron] [verb] " in BNC.

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1	Some of them looked as if they had only just risen from their beds , as if this was breakfast time to them ; others had the look of people who had n't slept for a week .
2	Mind you some of them looked as if they had never seen a woman before .
3	Jim Smith 's Cup-fighters were hoping to rekindle a fading promotion play-off challenge and they were forced to put out what was , on paper , their strongest team , even though many of them looked as if they needed a rest after their efforts at Highbury .
4	They behaved as if I 'd got something to do with the wretched man 's disappearance .
5	‘ I believe they behaved as if he 'd had a fortunate escape — condemned Isabelle as an aventurière , and worse .
6	They grinned as if he 'd made a joke , and they walked him inside .
7	They felt as if they 'd been scoured out with a Brillo pad .
8	Mr Michael Lyons , duty administrator at Guy 's , said they looked as if they had ‘ gone a couple of rounds with Frank Bruno ’ .
9	I looked more closely at his cheeks , and saw that they looked as if they had been rubbed to get them red .
10	They looked as if they had been dressed in a hurry and not very suitably for a long walk on the headland , even in a warm autumn .
11	They looked as if they had been arranged by some cleaner who had been sent in to tidy up and who did not know that in this room Ernest Jarvis had hanged himself .
12	Down at the far end of the valley , there was still snow on the upper slopes of the mountains ; they looked as if they 'd been sugar-dusted , with stone walls showing like fine , black veins above the treeline .
13	They looked as if they needed alcohol , or perhaps a blood transfusion : they were cadaverous .
14	He had two or three minor cuts and grazes on his cheeks ; they looked as if someone had pulled a fork through the flesh .
15	They hesitated as if they expected to be dismissed , and then hurled themselves noisily on Kadan .

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