Example sentences of "as [conj] [noun] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her face seemed puffy to her as if tears had been drenching it while she had been unconscious . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's as if people have been waiting for the Autumn Statement . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It seems as if John had been waiting for them to leave . |
| 4 | Floy got up , not furtively , but quite openly and naturally , so that if Balor should open his eyes it would not seem as if Floy had been trying to run away . |
| 5 | The bruise was a dull , greenish sickle of shadow just under the cheek-bone and then a comma of purple on the side of the nose , as if Culley had been wearing ill-fitting glasses . |