Example sentences of "if [pers pn] had [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though the landscape was flat , it seemed , both visually and from the effort it was taking to move the wheelbarrow , that I was continually walking up a hill , but when I looked back , it was as if I had just walked down one . |
| 2 | It felt fragile at first , but it was as if I had finally come up for air after nearly drowning in a pool of lies . |
| 3 | ‘ And what if I had never shown up here ? |
| 4 | Now I was about to meet him again , it was as if I had suddenly woken up from a syrupy dream . |
| 5 | She looked as stunningly elegant , as poised and assured — because even her slight nervousness seemed professional — as if she had just stepped out of a cabine at Dior . |
| 6 | She opened the door before Massingham had time to ring , her handsome shield-shaped face composed under the light brown fringe , and looking in her shirt , slacks and leather jerkin as elegantly informal as if she had just come in from a country walk . |
| 7 | She looked as if she had just got out of bed , and McLeish had a sudden vision of a dark basement flat with greasy mugs on every surface . |
| 8 | But the tragedy is she could have known those blessings all through those years , if she had never left if she had never gone down to Moab . |
| 9 | We would n't look very smart if we had simply given up and allowed some precious Galapagos species to become extinct , by letting the introduced animals get out of control . ’ |
| 10 | We should not find it easy to go for a single currency if we had already moved down the federalist route in a dangerous way on foreign and defence policies . |
| 11 | We resumed conversation almost as if we had never left off . |
| 12 | His eyebrows looked permanently as if they had just shot up . |
| 13 | By resorting to a money-lender it became more difficult to conceal their embarrassment — than if they had merely run up bills with retailers . |
| 14 | He did not take his readers back into history so much as bring Thomas Paine , William Hazlitt , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , Sir Walter Scott [ qq.v. ] , and others forward , as if they had suddenly walked in from the street . |
| 15 | At once I can see Annexe B , Summerchild 's list of possible members of the Unit , as clearly as if it had just come out of the porridge oats box . |
| 16 | Then , when the horse is brought out of the stable , instead of just walking quietly along ( which it would if it had just come in from the paddock ) , it is jumping out of its skin , ready to spook and shy at anything , nostrils dilated , eyes bulging , and tail hoisted high . |
| 17 | At last the restoration was completed and R5868 looked as if it had just come off the production line , a fine tribute to F/L Peaple and his team . |
| 18 | The front of the jeep was as clean as if it had just come off the boat from Japan . |
| 19 | He looked as if he had just stepped out of a drawing room in the shires . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Ray Shepherd looked up at them as coolly as if he had just driven in to work on a routine day . |
| 22 | If he had indeed come up here determined to end his life , then he might have climbed over the guard rail , leaving a scrap of thread behind as he did so . |
| 23 | The Santerres were waiting for us with Bowyer who looked as if he had really settled in , shirt open at the collar , stubby feet enclosed in buskins whilst his fat face was flushed with drink and his breath smelt like a wine press . |