Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [verb] just been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then drew back quickly , as if she 'd just been burned . |
| 2 | She wore a large white straw hat and looked as if she 'd just been to church . |
| 3 | She looked small , frail , and feeble ; her face was dazed and vacant , as if she 'd just been woken up and could n't quite remember where she was . |
| 4 | ‘ I beg your pardon ? ’ said Mrs Cramp again , reeling back as if she had just been slapped in the face . |
| 5 | as if she had just been in actual combat she dropped down on to the couch and sat gasping , drawing in long , shuddering breaths . |
| 6 | It is unquestionably a pleasure to see Paul Scofield wrap his voice round a sentence ; Vanessa Redgrave laugh as if she 's just been caught off guard ; and Daniel Massey inflect his expression just so , to suggest a man on the cusp between debonair and disintegrating . |
| 7 | I read the other day a well praised first novel in which the narrator — who is both sexually inexperienced and an amateur of French literature — comically rehearses to himself the best way to kiss a girl without being rebuffed : ‘ With a slow , sensual , irresistible strength , draw her gradually towards you while gazing into her eyes as if you had just been given a copy of the first , suppressed edition of Madame Bovary . ’ |
| 8 | Self-confidence can be at a low ebb if you 've just been told to p … off by an embittered pedestrian . |
| 9 | Then a friend asks if you 've just been chewing a clove of garlic . |
| 10 | These are the people to whom , for example , you write if you 've just been appointed liquidator of a company and want to get its VAT payments sorted out . |
| 11 | If you have just been told that your child has HIV , and if this was unexpected news , the shock will be overwhelming at first . |
| 12 | We 'd been discussing something else , and I said it out of the blue , but in my mind it was as if we 'd just been talking about Oliver , and the way she answered , as if she thought we 'd just been talking about Oliver too and there was n't any break in that conversation even though we 'd been through lots of different subjects in the meantime , made me feel very cheerful . |
| 13 | What 's the point of being aggressive with somebody when they 're gon na walk away feeling as if they 've just been walked all over , so you 've still got the same situation you 've got one person walking away feeling a little bit fed up and the other person not so if you talk about assertiveness in terms of aggression and in terms of submission i.e. there 's going to be a winner and there 's going to be a loser depending which way round you look at it then you still have n't quite grasped what we mean by assertiveness . |
| 14 | but , sort of like er , erm its like so , some of those paintings of the wraps and beautiful boat , they look as if they 've just been photographed , they looked as if they 're a photograph not a oil , oil painting . |
| 15 | Yeah , it looks as if they 've just been sort of put in in a heap |
| 16 | The lecture theatre resonates like a drum with the chatter of a hundred-odd students , all talking at once , as if they have just been released from solitary confinement . |
| 17 | This brings us to rule five : only ever praise somebody ( a ) in order to condemn someone else ( ‘ Danny Baker is genuinely witty and not childish like so many Radio 1 ‘ personalities ' ’ ) or ( b ) if they have just been sacked ( ‘ I found the previous presenters stylish , informed and witty , creating just the right atmosphere . |
| 18 | It looked as if it had just been brought home by Susan from Blackpool . |
| 19 | She noticed that his hair had scissor marks in it , as if it had just been dry cut . |
| 20 | Because no one could have found that brooch if it had just been a wilderness . |
| 21 | I stared stupidly at the bag in my hand as if it had just been dropped there from a helicopter . |
| 22 | The Z88 's line editor may then be used to edit the line as if it had just been typed in . |
| 23 | The line to be edited is now in the input buffer and may be edited as if it had just been typed in . |
| 24 | But if it 's just been brought out of the calf pens , fresh muck when it 's been spreaded in , and you know that tummy muscles , along mucking out the calf pens , they 'd been all the winter on this , getting tighter and harder , all through the winter . |
| 25 | If it has just been created using option 2.1.1 — Create DC , it should now be updated using option 2.1.2 — Update DC and then submitted for assessment using option 2.1.3 , whereupon no further changes will be possible . |
| 26 | He is ‘ a large , hard-breathing , middle-aged slow man , with a mouth like a fish , dull staring eyes , and sandy hair standing upright on his head , so that he looked as if he had just been all but choked , and had that moment come to ’ . |
| 27 | He had a half-beard and he looked dirty , as if he had just been working with hammers and bricks and wood and chisels . |
| 28 | Commentary : where an offender is dealt with for a breach of a community service order , he must be sentenced ( if the order is revoked ) in a manner in which he could have been sentenced by the court which made the order , if he is in breach of a probation order , the court may sentence the offender as if he had just been convicted of the offence concerned . |
| 29 | His expression was severe and disapproving as if he 'd just been sucking on a slice of lemon . |
| 30 | If he 'd just been trying to clear the hell out , then it meant there were probably other FAKINTIL escapers at large who had n't been able to make it back to the mountains either . |