Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [subord] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clinton behaved as if his first year at Oxford would be his only year . |
| 2 | And many of those who still have jobs get shorter breaks now than they used to as their firms struggle to survive in the recession . |
| 3 | The question , unanswered , reverberated as if her skull were a cavern full of a roaring sea . |
| 4 | I played as if my very life depended upon it . |
| 5 | CHARLES WOKE as if his body was being dragged out of a deep pit , and memory returned slowly to his pounding head . |
| 6 | I had n't noticed this picture much while she was alive , but now she was dead it seemed as if her eyes sparkled with the same vitality that they had appeared to possess when I had seen her lying cold on her straw mattress a few days earlier . |
| 7 | Aware of the loose board near the top of the stairs , she clung to the wall and then slipped down to the garden in shadow , barely a shadow herself , and making as little noise , though inside her head it seemed as if her heart would waken the dead with its pumping . |
| 8 | It seemed as if her silence at last unnerved her father because he turned to speak to her just before they were to walk together down the long aisle . |
| 9 | She wanted — needed him so much , in spite of everything , that it seemed as if her entire heart and soul were crying out to him . |
| 10 | Remembering the kiss he had given her after breakfast it seemed as if their relationship might at long last have changed . |
| 11 | It certainly seemed as if his friend had snapped the bones of both his wings . |
| 12 | Now it seemed as if his arms tapered all the way down to his fingertips where they lay lightly on the wheel of the Audi . |
| 13 | Hector 's head turned as if his eyes were seeking the abbot . |
| 14 | They had never met before , but as soon as Duroc was inside the Agency 's inner sanctum , the Chief Op looked up from his blondwood desk , flashed a monied piranha grin , and acted as if his visitor were an old college buddy who had happened to have walked in off the street . |
| 15 | Francie paused in rolling his cigarette and frowned as if his brother had said too much ; but Melanie did not notice . |
| 16 | Leeds began as if their miserable Anfield record was no more than a myth and Liverpool had the indignity of being pinned in their penalty area in front of an affronted Kop . |
| 17 | Her head was bent and her shoulders drooped as if her fears had been only partially allayed . |
| 18 | She felt as if her heart had turned into a fist and was trying to punch its way out of her chest . |
| 19 | She leaped up the track and ran until she felt as if her lungs would burst . |
| 20 | She felt as if her own emotions had been tossed brutally into a whirlwind . |
| 21 | She felt as if her heart were reflected there . |
| 22 | Meredith felt as if her nerves were strung on a line . |
| 23 | She felt as if her mind was detached from her body , she was light-headed , incapable of decisions . |
| 24 | Her eyes were on Theda 's in a look so compelling that Theda felt as if her mind were being dragged out to be read . |
| 25 | There was enough to crowd out all but the most persistent of memories , however , for rehearsals were absolute mayhem , and from day one until the opening she felt as if her feet scarcely touched the ground . |
| 26 | He felt as if his address was saying to Broch : ‘ Do n't be afraid , you have been afraid enough for us . |
| 27 | Willie felt as if his arms would surely come out of his sockets with the weight . |
| 28 | To Wishart , Minton said that in a hangover state he sometimes felt as if his eyeballs had been pulled out , tied in a very complicated knot and pushed back with the knots intact . |
| 29 | He felt as if his entire arm and hand were ablaze ; as if someone had turned a blowtorch on them . |
| 30 | Connelly , barely conscious now , felt as if his blood was boiling , as if his bones were calcifying under the incredible heat . |