Example sentences of "[v-ing] as if [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | My heart was thumping as if I had run a race and there was a pain in my back . |
| 2 | Nicolo had flung his head back ; he was laughing as if she had just told the world 's funniest joke . |
| 3 | Sue sat quietly and smiled while this was happening as if she had nothing to do with the incident . |
| 4 | At the end of one hour her back was aching as if it had been kicked all over by a mule ; but she went on doggedly , though it soon became absolute agony . |
| 5 | The Feldwebel had not moved and I looked all the way up his black leather jack-boots and the thin grey greatcoat with its cheap tin buttons looking as if they had come out of a Christmas pudding before I noticed that his eyes were slightly open and that he was watching me with an uncle 's amusement . |
| 6 | Then the inner office , even more discreetly sumptuous , and two more smooth bitches , secretaries this time , both looking as if they had starch in their well-bred pants . |
| 7 | Down they came , her two big sons , dark like their father , square and looking as if they had been manufactured by a toy firm to look like younger versions of a father in a game . |
| 8 | In the second panel the same people , considerably sobered and looking as if they had a serious hangover , were being led away by the classic medieval figure of Death , a grisly skeleton in a black robe and cowl , who rather reminded Preston of an old schoolmaster he had known called Mr Pilkington . |
| 9 | Once the lids of the outer case and the leaden shell had been removed , the workman prised off the lid of the inner coffin ; the slightly yellowed silk sheets were drawn back and there lay the body of the child , looking as if he had gone off to sleep but a few moments before . |
| 10 | Eric Verrico was the one who most frequently posed , for , looking as if he had stepped out of a Caravaggio , he was the most beautiful of Johnny 's Circus . |
| 11 | Of similar vintage I can recall Billy Lane turning up for an open match on the Swadlincote waters , looking as if he had just stepped out of a time warp . |
| 12 | Walker always looked at home until his move to Italy sapped his self-belief and left the normally swift-heeled defender looking as if he had feet of clay . |
| 13 | At the end of the ceremony she tottered off to the bus , looking as if she had every intention of popping in to the local when she got home and livening everyone up with a steady dropping of ‘ To think our ‘ Ilda should go before me ’ remarks . |
| 14 | Corbett took his seat , trying to ignore de Craon who was grinning as if he had suddenly found something amusing . |
| 15 | He was acting as if they had a settled relationship , but they had n't . |
| 16 | But , the layman may object , this does not mean that the communicating classes should be allowed to get an election wrong , and just carry on communicating as if nothing had happened . |
| 17 | ‘ It inspected me , ’ said Caspar , sounding as if he had found this amusing . |
| 18 | ‘ They beat me , ’ he said , his teeth chattering as if he had a fever . |
| 19 | Patrick , on the other hand , Ludens noticed , proceeded in the opposite direction , occasionally speaking as if he had been , when Marcus arrived , not just dying but actually dead . |
| 20 | ‘ What happened was surely not his fault , ’ he said , continuing as if she had n't spoken . |
| 21 | He took to pacing the streets of London , very often in the poorer areas , in all weathers , alone , seldom speaking to anyone but staring , staring as if he had never seen a poor person in his life before . |
| 22 | Now wide awake , and breathing as if she had been running , she put her hand up to her brow and knew that the cold wetness she felt was sweat not blood . |
| 23 | She stuck her chin in the air and glared — underneath shaking as if she had an ague . |
| 24 | But within two days she was back at school and behaving as if nothing had happened . ’ |
| 25 | Outside in the street , where she could raise her voice again , she almost shouted at him , telling him he was to stop behaving as if he had been right and she wrong — as if he believed she now shared his views and endorsed his ridiculous maunderings . |
| 26 | ‘ They were talking as if they had lost a £10 note . |
| 27 | ‘ Do n't look so wistful — there will be another time for Bamburgh , ’ he said quietly , and she wondered why he was talking as if they had a future together . |
| 28 | It seemed like a complete breakdown ; but after a few minutes he saw that they were playing as if they had always played this way . |
| 29 | It was a relief when Stephen Copley , the Senior Chemist , arrived just before ten , bustling in as usual , his rubicund face with its tonsure and fringe of black curly hair glistening as if he had come in from the sun . |
| 30 | The rest of the hens were roaming as if nothing had happened . |