Example sentences of "if [pron] have just [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The letter announcing my visit lay unopened on the mat when she opened the door , and an hour later I came away believing that I admired a woman who could , under these circumstances and in some pain , treat me as if I had just stepped round the corner for a packet of tea ten minutes before , and talk to me about this and that , and nothing at all . |
| 2 | Jessamy felt the touch of his lips again and shivered deeply , as if someone had just walked over her grave . |
| 3 | Bad enough to feel the way she did , let alone have to spend time with a man who treated her as if she 'd just crawled from under a stone . |
| 4 | Her prosecutor was looking at her as if she 'd just crawled from under a stone . |
| 5 | Her blonde curls looked as if she had just come from a hairdresser rather than from the hand basin in her own bedroom which was where she had washed her hair this morning . |
| 6 | Her arms felt languorous , her flesh soft and relaxed as if she had just awakened from sleep . |
| 7 | She simply looks satisfied , as if she had just bitten into the most delicious slab of chocolate she ever tasted . |
| 8 | If you 've just moved to a new area a good way to break the ice for you and your child is a parent and toddler group . |
| 9 | If you 've just come down a hill with your brakes on , |
| 10 | ‘ Not at all as if you 'd just dismounted from a horse . |
| 11 | If you 'd just rung from Bryn 's place I could have at least made myself presentable , cariad ! ’ |
| 12 | as if something had just occurred to her , Bella turned her head to look at Marie : ‘ Must be a bit of a shock to you an ’ all . |
| 13 | Actors learn them off by heart and then they rehearse them masses and masses of times until it sounds as if they 've just thought of them . ’ |
| 14 | Why he felt as if they had just agreed to an illicit liaison he did not know , unless it was the air of sexual invitation this woman wore as other women wore perfume , the practised composition of glance and gesture that she used to imply everything whilst proposing nothing . |
| 15 | I mean someone who would just sit down and tell you things , as if they had just happened on the way home . |
| 16 | If they had just looked at the laws governing slavery , as had done both their contemporaries and more recent social scientists , they would have been unable to distinguish between slavery as a minor and rare form of exploitation , on the one hand , supplying occasional domestic and sexual luxuries , and slavery as the basis of whole economies , on the other hand , where most of production is carried out by slave labour . |
| 17 | ‘ Do you want to come over for dinner sometime ? ’ said Jay , as if it had just occurred to her . |
| 18 | We 'll pick her up when she goes for lunch — and we 've got something to say , now , even if it 's just Run for the hills , lady . ’ |
| 19 | If it 's just left like that I shall just take the whole lot and dump it in the dustbin ! |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He was gazing forwards and he looked as if he had just stepped on a drawing-pin . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |