Example sentences of "as [subord] she have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She shook her head as if she had been swimming , and complete consciousness came back to her . |
| 2 | Jessamy knew her words were cruel , but she felt as if she had been pushed very near to her limit . |
| 3 | She slipped off the edge of the bed as if she had been injected with new life . |
| 4 | And when she said , ‘ I might need to , and then I 'd just walk out , ’ Agnes was round the table as if she had been shot there and , holding her sister by the shoulders , she cried at her , ‘ Do n't do that , Jessie ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And it looked as if she had been stabbed with a weapon that had a central rib ; the wound gaped quite a bit in the middle . |
| 7 | It was perhaps less a prayer than a wish , in its final form ; but by the time the Queen went to bed that evening , it looked almost as if she had been heard . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Valerie Cass sank back into a chair as if she had been slapped . |
| 10 | She was as much a part of this murky landscape now as if she had been born here , every step of the way between Miss Gemma Dallam 's cloistered corner and her own — in spirit a universe apart — being so familiar to her that it seemed she had always known them , or had known them before , in another place , a dozen other places ; another life . |
| 11 | Yet Gemma had shown no more than a polite interest in Almsmead while Linnet , who was very dear but not Gemma , after all , had positively thrown herself into all the excitements of housebuilding and furnishing , taking to Far Flatley as if she had been born there . |
| 12 | She stripped it angrily off again , and put back the sweat shirt , and with it a feeling of appropriateness and even virtue , as if she had been tempted briefly by the forbidden . |
| 13 | Feeling as if she had been dismissed , Lindsey watched as he sat on the bed and reached for his stethoscope . |
| 14 | All in all , she felt as if she had been ravaged ! |
| 15 | Yet she had timed her appearance so exactly that it seemed as if she had been forewarned of the train 's arrival . |
| 16 | Sophie 's voice dipped in disappointment , as if she had been hoping for a graphic account of overturned furniture and blood on the walls . |
| 17 | Breeze sat as if she had been turned to stone . |
| 18 | It was as if she had been cordoned off from it . |
| 19 | Then she kissed Auntie Lou on the cheek and said , ‘ Thank you , oh I do thank you , ’ and Auntie Lou smiled and blushed as if she had been given a present . |
| 20 | She looked as if she had been kissed thoroughly — her fair hair was tangled , her lips full and red , and even her own blushing made the point clearer . |
| 21 | It was again as if she had been struck , her hands barely moving along the surface of the dresser she had been wiping clean of dust , her head going low , and when she finished she went to put the damp cloth carefully beside the sink , moving a simmering saucepan from the hotplate . |
| 22 | Anne stepped back as if she had been struck . |
| 23 | When she finally reached the scribbling engine , she felt as if she had been broken in two and glued back together again all wrong . |
| 24 | She felt as if she had been kicked in the stomach . |
| 25 | ‘ I noticed , ’ she said , reaching out to touch him — and pulling away as if she had been stung as the telephone rang inside the house . |
| 26 | She crouched forward in the chair , her muscles stiff , as if she had been sitting in the cold for a long time . |
| 27 | But her jaw had locked , as if she had been bitten by an animal that kills its prey by robbing it of the ability to eat or hunt , pant or lick , or even howl . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | When she had finished , her whole body throbbed , ached , was raw , as if she had been cutting up small pieces of herself . |
| 30 | She looked as if she had been attacked . |