Example sentences of "as if he had just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And here they were , nearly twenty-odd children , gaping back at him as if he had just asked them to run through the periodic table . |
| 2 | He stopped at the foot of the stairs as if he had just escorted her there and was off somewhere else . |
| 3 | There he stood leaning against it , his arms outspread , one cheek pressed on to the black wood , with his breath coming in gasps , as if he had just surfaced from drowning . |
| 4 | So many times she had felt as if he had just steamrollered his way right over her , refusing to listen to her arguments , just using his overpowering physical and mental strength to get his own way . |
| 5 | He was gazing forwards and he looked as if he had just stepped on a drawing-pin . |
| 6 | He looked as if he had just stepped out of a drawing room in the shires . |
| 7 | Of similar vintage I can recall Billy Lane turning up for an open match on the Swadlincote waters , looking as if he had just stepped out of a time warp . |
| 8 | He looked as if he had just stepped straight out of one of those bespoke tailors in Saville Row in London 's West End . |
| 9 | He cocked his head to one side as if he had just realised something awful . |
| 10 | He felt as if he had just run fifty yards , rather quickly . |
| 11 | He sat back , breathing deeply , taking in the elegance of the shapes the boy had made , recollecting the startling originality of the boy 's strategies — as if he had just re-invented the game . |
| 12 | He was beginning to feel as if he had just switched roller-coasters — from one set of emotional turmoil to another . |
| 13 | He looked across at me with watery , beseeching eyes as if he had just told me the entire , intolerable story of his life . |
| 14 | There was , anyway , an atmosphere in this shop , an unpleasant feeling , as if he had just walked through a gateway into a world parallel to our own , where huge and unpleasant moral choices are offered , fought over and discussed . |
| 15 | He was aware of a slow feeling of triumph , a sense of release as if he had just won some physical competition ; without the fear there would n't have been this strange sense of excitement and content . |