Example sentences of "as if i [verb] [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 . |
8 | ‘ Cretin ’ , he glared at me as if I 'd said it . |
9 | ‘ Tod Richardson , ’ I repeat , speaking flatly , nodding to Vinnie Dirkin as if I 'd guessed it all the while . |
10 | I tried to look as if this was perfectly normal , as if I 'd asked him to make the entry for me . |
11 | Whenever I smiled , he smiled back happily as if I 'd given him something . |
12 | Patterson 's eyes flickered as if I 'd given him a straw to grasp , but I pressed on . |
13 | I think that I was also over-confident when going into that river as if I 'd done it all before and was some sort of expert . |
14 | I felt as if I 'd handed him a loaded shotgun and said shoot . ’ |
15 | ( He gawped at me as if I 'd told him to swim the Atlantic . ) |
16 | I just said it as if I 'd known it all along . |
17 | ‘ It 's ridiculous , I know , but I feel as if I should know her , as if I 've seen her before somewhere . ’ |
18 | Oh I never caught it , right enough , but I feel as if I 've caught it now . |
19 | ‘ You are treating this as if I have accused you of some crime . |
20 | I feel as if I want to it hurts and I feel as if I want to move it . |