Example sentences of "as [conj] i have " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was as if I had a vast chip on my shoulder . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was almost as if I had received a blow to the heart . |
| 4 | He moved a leg to scratch — innocently ? — his bulging crotch , and the knee just touched mine beneath the table , as if accidentally , and I felt as if I had been touched by lightning . |
| 5 | I felt as if I had just given birth . |
| 6 | Feel as if I had lived a long time and done very little . |
| 7 | a very uncomfortable thing for me occurred — There were quite enough queens to register Casanova impotent , and yet every one of them shied away from me as if I had the plague . |
| 8 | The idea struck him as somehow absurd , as if I had told him I did n't have a head or a heart . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I 'm late , ’ I said , as if I had an appointment to keep . |
| 11 | When I eventually did get home , though , I remembered most of those I had forgotten as if I had not been away . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was as if I had been expecting visitors . |
| 14 | as if I had anything to do with it . ’ |
| 15 | By the time I left his office , I felt as if I had been an established outside-left for years , ’ Bastin later recalled . |
| 16 | Feeling as if I had just won a gold medal , I ran home , carefully examined my treasure to find that the ‘ bone ’ handle was only painted tin . |
| 17 | They read somewhat strangely , as if I had imagined the whole thing , or cooked it up for an April Fool joke . |
| 18 | I took long breaks away from training and would then reappear like the proverbial bad penny , as if I had never been away . |
| 19 | as if I had them every day — I 'd had one ! |
| 20 | I 'd swap my vest and plasters for a Marks and Spencer circle-stitched bra , a rigid , pointed contraption that made me look as if I had a couple of ice-cream cones up my jumper : I could never fill them to the end ( not even on a good day ) and the last waltz would result in dents in the ends . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I shivered as if I had an actual fever , smoked a dozen cigarettes and drank half a bottle of Cyprus sherry . |
| 24 | At Oxford , it had often discomposed me , as if I had said something foolish or affected , unworthy of comment . |
| 25 | He laughed softly , with pleasure , as if I had fed him the right cue . |
| 26 | He laughed as if I had said something annihilatingly funny and kneaded my hand gently against his thigh . |
| 27 | Then I saw his face in the driving mirror and felt ashamed , as if I had struck a child . |
| 28 | Earlier I had felt as if I was being torn in two , but now the decision was made , I was floating on a warm tide of physical ease , as if I had just given birth . |
| 29 | My heart was thumping as if I had run a race and there was a pain in my back . |
| 30 | 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 . |