Example sentences of "as [subord] i have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is as if I had made a small betrayal . |
| 2 | It was almost as if I had received a blow to the heart . |
| 3 | as if I had to ask why it should be that there is n't any fun any more . |
| 4 | ‘ I felt as if I had seen something unclean , ’ Cecil concluded , ‘ so fearful in its cold frenzy that one blanched , asphyxiated in so nauseous an atmosphere . ’ |
| 5 | It was nice , people were so kind , offering encouragement and congratulations for what had been achieved ; I almost felt as if I had done it all . |
| 6 | Like an actor in a Monty Python sketch , I suddenly fiddled with my fingers as though checking my nails and said , ‘ You 'd better get away , the police are coming ’ — as if I had run up specially to tell him . |
| 7 | My heart was thumping as if I had run a race and there was a pain in my back . |
| 8 | She nodded again , as if I had answered her . |
| 9 | At Oxford , it had often discomposed me , as if I had said something foolish or affected , unworthy of comment . |
| 10 | He laughed as if I had said something annihilatingly funny and kneaded my hand gently against his thigh . |
| 11 | Tessa looked at me as if I had said something odd . |
| 12 | They read somewhat strangely , as if I had imagined the whole thing , or cooked it up for an April Fool joke . |
| 13 | Soon it was as if I had imagined everything . |
| 14 | He laughed softly , with pleasure , as if I had fed him the right cue . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Feel as if I had lived a long time and done very little . |
| 17 | There was a silence , as if I had asked him a very profound question . |
| 18 | I had also agreed to load up out of sight , though within easy walking distance , of villages — it would be as as if I had gone into the villages for supplies , but this way meant that I would n't attract anyone 's attention . |
| 19 | It was as if I had denied Daisy and Joszef . |
| 20 | Then I saw his face in the driving mirror and felt ashamed , as if I had struck a child . |
| 21 | I write about Agnes , I try to imagine her , I let her sit on a bench in the sauna , walk around Paris , leaf through a magazine , talk with her husband , but the thing that started it all , the gesture of a woman waving to a lifeguard by the side of a pool , it must seem as if I had forgotten that . |
| 22 | Except that in that case Timmy would n't be Timmy , and the thought that there might be no Timmy , that there might be some other person altogether occupying his space in the world , fills me with terror , as if I had looked out of the bedroom window and found the solid earth beneath the house had disappeared . |
| 23 | It was too absurd — the invitation , then this curt dismissal , as if I had exhausted his patience . |
| 24 | He looked at me , as if I had talked of going to the North Pole . ’ |
| 25 | The events of the week-end seemed to recede , to become locked away , as if I had dreamt them ; and yet as I walked there came the strangest feeling , compounded of the early hour , the absolute solitude , and what had happened , of having entered a myth ; a knowledge of what it was like physically , moment by moment , to have been young and ancient , a Ulysses on his way to meet Circe , a Theseus on his journey to Crete , an Oedipus still searching for his destiny . |
| 26 | Bird noises faded up as if I had found another TV control . |
| 27 | Rachel daintily arched one eyebrow as if I had mentioned inviting her servants to some feast or revelry . |
| 28 | I felt awful , as if I had hurt him . |
| 29 | One of them kisses me as if I had won a prize for the most amusing and far-fetched story of the evening . |
| 30 | The idea struck him as somehow absurd , as if I had told him I did n't have a head or a heart . |