Example sentences of "as if [pron] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking back , I find it interesting that our exchanges were consistently humorous , as if we had been rehearsing for a Wit and Wisdom contest . |
| 2 | They were soon strolling with me round the house as if they 'd been expecting me for weeks . |
| 3 | It looked as if they 'd been having a party and had just taken off in the middle of it . |
| 4 | Sometimes my tears are so hot they feel as if they 've been baking inside me , sometimes they feel bigger and wetter , sometimes rather lighter and not so salty . |
| 5 | Then , hoping he could remember enough of the ancient language of chivalry and selecting his words with extreme care , he said , ‘ Good Trees , we ask your assistance , ’ and saw the Elms nod to one another meaningfully , as if they had been expecting all along to be asked to do something for the Humans . |
| 6 | She had seen so many of the students set out from her door , awkward and anxious , and after a few weeks it was as if they had been studying there all their lives . |
| 7 | Almost as if they had been awaiting the signal of an extra moon , they now took their prancings into a more intense phase . |
| 8 | In Arequipa I had watched women in the church of Santo Domingo giggle happily as they dressed the Virgin for a procession ; , behaving much as if they had been preparing a girl for a wedding , not a poor girl though , rather one Velasquez might be called upon to paint . |
| 9 | When we have breakfast , on the 8th floor , we can look down on the river , and watch all the river traffic , including large passenger vessels , big merchant ships belching smoke , strings of wooden barges , and big and small old-fashioned junks , which look as if they have been sailing for a 100 years at least . |
| 10 | Most travellers will explain , like the writer and traveller Paul Theroux , that unless the journey has been difficult they do not feel as if they have been travelling . |
| 11 | It looked as if somebody had been giving the place a pretty thorough airing , and it was n't too hard to guess who . |
| 12 | She shook her head as if she had been swimming , and complete consciousness came back to her . |
| 13 | Right leg bent double , knee red from impact , a scatter of dark soil across her calf , as if she had been trying to run even as she fell . |
| 14 | Gina went down the stairs feeling as if she had been reading someone 's letters , or had been forced to eavesdrop on a conversation she did n't want to hear . |
| 15 | Sophie 's voice dipped in disappointment , as if she had been hoping for a graphic account of overturned furniture and blood on the walls . |
| 16 | She crouched forward in the chair , her muscles stiff , as if she had been sitting in the cold for a long time . |
| 17 | All their eyes were turned on Rose but she , with just a glance at Moran , took up the Second Mystery as if she had been saying it with them all the nights of their lives . |
| 18 | When she had finished , her whole body throbbed , ached , was raw , as if she had been cutting up small pieces of herself . |
| 19 | It felt as if she had been travelling for days instead of only one , on and off , and she arrived as dusk was falling . |
| 20 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
| 21 | It was as if she had been waiting for this moment for four years or more . |
| 22 | It was as if she had been waiting all her life to find this man , this moment . |
| 23 | Unbelievable as it seemed to him , she almost looked as if she had been crying . |
| 24 | ‘ The Seraglio complex is through there , ’ her guide croaked , with as little drama as if she had been showing the way to the bathroom . |
| 25 | It was as if she had been having a nightmare — terrible , perhaps , but still only a dream in which the money could vanish like fairy gold — and woken up to find it was true . |
| 26 | At once it opened , as if she had been standing there waiting for the summons . |
| 27 | And then a sound , as if she had been standing next to a huge thunderclap . |
| 28 | It was as if she had been playing a part with all her might for several months , but it had sapped her energy . |
| 29 | As the shop door closed behind her , Miss Belle , speaking breathlessly as if she had been running , said , ‘ We 've been on the look-out for you . |
| 30 | 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 . |