Example sentences of "as [subord] [pers pn] have [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the hotel , Salah greeted us as if we had returned from the dead , pumping our hands and laughing , " Crazy English , crazy English . " |
| 2 | Then , as if they 'd recovered from the surprise , they began to laugh , snorting and giggling in delight at the water being thrown at them , like two children playing a game . |
| 3 | Next day we were visited by a pod of dolphins which behaved as if they had escaped from a circus . |
| 4 | The 18th-century mountain traveller John Macculloch described Sutherlands as containing ‘ mountains which seem as if they had tumbled from the clouds , having nothing to do with the country or each other . ’ |
| 5 | I knew so little about who had held them and how they had got out , it seemed as if they had come from a different world , a different time . |
| 6 | But now that computer animation looks so real , some advertising agencies are insisting that the images they pay For must look as if they have come from a computer . |
| 7 | She looked as if she had withered from within , and she was obviously disturbed . |
| 8 | His head was buried in the sand , hands and feet spread out , as if he had fallen from a great height . ’ |
| 9 | He still looked as if he had escaped from a major car crash . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Despite the casual modern clothes he wore , he looked as if he 'd stepped from some early-Renaissance painting . |
| 12 | Rayleen looked at him as if he 'd dropped from behind peeling wallpaper . |
| 13 | The Dome itself , designed by Ralph Tubbs , looked as if it had descended from Mars . |
| 14 | But if he had first dropped the razor , why should it be lying on top of the blanket and so conveniently close to his hand as if it had slipped from the opening fingers ? |