Example sentences of "as [conj] i had [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was nice , people were so kind , offering encouragement and congratulations for what had been achieved ; I almost felt as if I had done it all . |
| 2 | She nodded again , as if I had answered her . |
| 3 | He laughed softly , with pleasure , as if I had fed him the right cue . |
| 4 | There was a silence , as if I had asked him a very profound question . |
| 5 | The events of the week-end seemed to recede , to become locked away , as if I had dreamt them ; and yet as I walked there came the strangest feeling , compounded of the early hour , the absolute solitude , and what had happened , of having entered a myth ; a knowledge of what it was like physically , moment by moment , to have been young and ancient , a Ulysses on his way to meet Circe , a Theseus on his journey to Crete , an Oedipus still searching for his destiny . |
| 6 | I felt awful , as if I had hurt him . |
| 7 | The idea struck him as somehow absurd , as if I had told him I did n't have a head or a heart . |