Example sentences of "as if he [verb] [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | His head was buried in the sand , hands and feet spread out , as if he had fallen from a great height . ’ |
| 2 | He still looked as if he had escaped from a major car crash . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Despite the casual modern clothes he wore , he looked as if he 'd stepped from some early-Renaissance painting . |
| 5 | Rayleen looked at him as if he 'd dropped from behind peeling wallpaper . |