Example sentences of "as [subord] i have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I collapsed back into the armchair , almost as exhausted as if I 'd been climbing the Eigernordwand . |
| 2 | It was not however , until I arrived in the country , and found myself surrounded by objects as strange as if I had been transported to another planet , that I conceived the idea of devoting a portion of my attention to the mammalian class of its extraordinary fauna . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I look as though I 've been on the wrong end of a Gestapo interrogation . |
| 4 | I feel as though I 've been asked to define , what is the length of a piece of string ? |
| 5 | When I see you I get a clenched feeling in the gut as though I 've been punched . |
| 6 | It was as though I had been deprived of my rights , as elder sister , to the first go at something . |
| 7 | I woke stiff and cold , feeling as though I had been scrunched up like a paper bag . |
| 8 | When I went through the Blackfriars underpass I felt as though I had been hit by a brick , ’ she said . |
| 9 | It was as though I had been caught in a wild torrent of a rampaging river . |
| 10 | Among the crowd of pedestrians I glimpsed a creature , whether boy or girl , and suddenly had the breath taken from me as though I had been punched , hard . |
| 11 | I felt as though I had been reincarnated in the same lifetime . |
| 12 | We are totally incompatible , yet after ten minutes in the same room as him I felt as though I had been plugged into the mains . |
| 13 | I felt a touch of the sinister that rules so many of the islands ; there was no reason to shiver in that warm spot , but I did , and experienced a slight sense of embarrassment , as though I had been intruding , thinking perhaps not of Tiare but of the great love all those years ago which had produced her : forty years ago when the water was cascading over the same cliff in just the same way as it had today , Princess Tiare 's mother and her lover had bathed in the same secret pool and later , perhaps , made love in the cave behind . |
| 14 | ‘ I feel as though I 'd been living under an anaesthetic for years and years . ’ |
| 15 | I return haggardly , as though I have been in a street fight , grotty from rushing and weeping and random taxicabs . |