Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [conj] i had " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you — especially when you are near me , as now : it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs , tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame . |
| 2 | Now I live in a painful planet , transparent as ice ; but it is as if I had learned everything in seconds … |
| 3 | It is as if I had made a small betrayal . |
| 4 | ‘ It was as if I had a vast chip on my shoulder . |
| 5 | Though the landscape was flat , it seemed , both visually and from the effort it was taking to move the wheelbarrow , that I was continually walking up a hill , but when I looked back , it was as if I had just walked down one . |
| 6 | It was as if I had been expecting visitors . |
| 7 | It felt fragile at first , but it was as if I had finally come up for air after nearly drowning in a pool of lies . |
| 8 | Now I was about to meet him again , it was as if I had suddenly woken up from a syrupy dream . |
| 9 | It was as if I had ‘ come home ’ to something familiar . |
| 10 | It was as if I had denied Daisy and Joszef . |
| 11 | Soon it was as if I had imagined everything . |
| 12 | It was as if I had committed a faux pas by referring to the singing . |
| 13 | They had people to do that for them half the time , there was no need for it , but it was as if I had to earn my keep , I had to repay what they 'd done for me , with the people that worked there laughing at me behind my back , wondering where I 'd come from , thinking maybe I was no better than them . |