Example sentences of "as [conj] [pers pn] have [verb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was with a certain sense of foreboding — as if we had seen an omen — that we descended from this mountain fastness to the domain of the Bugis , where we knew we had just two months left to find a prahu to carry us eastwards before the monsoon set in … |
| 2 | So when I stumbled against him and threw my arms round his neck he just stood there , unmoving except for a slight step backwards to keep his balance — though I thought I felt his hands touch my waist for just an instant as if they had made an automatic move to hold me which he had cancelled . |
| 3 | She felt as if she had taken an extremely exacting examination . |
| 4 | She was smiling , she knew ; oh , this was the opposite of " her look " , when she felt like this , as if she 'd drunk an extra-fine distilled essence of danger , and could have stepped out among the stars or run thirty miles . |
| 5 | It is as if she has to create an impervious beauty , a mask to conceal the painfully damaged body beneath the clothes , just as her lips are always closed in these photographs to conceal her decayed teeth . |
| 6 | Even in anger , it was rich and deep — with a tone of natural authority that made the policeman behind her tense involuntarily , as if he had to fight an urge to stand to attention . |
| 7 | It was as if he has caught an infection which was moving around all men but as yet lighting on few , something which would grow to cause fever where there had been force . |
| 8 | He jerked his hand back as if it had received an electric shock : a cheek nerve had quivered . |
| 9 | ‘ I know it 's ridiculous , but it felt as if I 'd taken an enormous jump into the dark , that night with you … ’ |
| 10 | I look as if I 've made an about-turn but in terms of simple logistics it 's getting itself out of all proportion . ’ |
| 11 | I am chickening out cos I do n't feel as if I 've learnt an awful lot . |
| 12 | After the pubs are closed , on the off-chance , I mean , cos if you get here what the hell do you do if not as if you 've got an alternative is there ? |