Example sentences of "if [pron] had just " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt as if I had just given birth . |
| 2 | Though the landscape was flat , it seemed , both visually and from the effort it was taking to move the wheelbarrow , that I was continually walking up a hill , but when I looked back , it was as if I had just walked down one . |
| 3 | Feeling as if I had just won a gold medal , I ran home , carefully examined my treasure to find that the ‘ bone ’ handle was only painted tin . |
| 4 | Earlier I had felt as if I was being torn in two , but now the decision was made , I was floating on a warm tide of physical ease , as if I had just given birth . |
| 5 | The letter announcing my visit lay unopened on the mat when she opened the door , and an hour later I came away believing that I admired a woman who could , under these circumstances and in some pain , treat me as if I had just stepped round the corner for a packet of tea ten minutes before , and talk to me about this and that , and nothing at all . |
| 6 | ‘ Sprechen kommandant , bitte , privaten , ’ I said very slowly , as if I had just learned these words and found difficulty in repeating them . |
| 7 | ‘ Fuck off and leave you alone ! ’ echoed Quigley , as if I had just taken pi to sixteen decimal places off the top of my head . |
| 8 | Jessamy felt the touch of his lips again and shivered deeply , as if someone had just walked over her grave . |
| 9 | His chest hurt and he felt sick , as if someone had just kicked him in the gut . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh no , ’ she said , ‘ oh no , ’ in a shocked , incredulous way as if someone had just slapped her in the face . |
| 11 | He looked as if someone had just hung a mop on his nose . |
| 12 | She looked as if she had just got out of bed , and McLeish had a sudden vision of a dark basement flat with greasy mugs on every surface . |
| 13 | ‘ I beg your pardon ? ’ said Mrs Cramp again , reeling back as if she had just been slapped in the face . |
| 14 | Tina looked guilty , as if she had just betrayed a secret . |
| 15 | Her blonde curls looked as if she had just come from a hairdresser rather than from the hand basin in her own bedroom which was where she had washed her hair this morning . |
| 16 | She opened the door before Massingham had time to ring , her handsome shield-shaped face composed under the light brown fringe , and looking in her shirt , slacks and leather jerkin as elegantly informal as if she had just come in from a country walk . |
| 17 | Not if she had just moved . |
| 18 | Her arms felt languorous , her flesh soft and relaxed as if she had just awakened from sleep . |
| 19 | She looked as stunningly elegant , as poised and assured — because even her slight nervousness seemed professional — as if she had just stepped out of a cabine at Dior . |
| 20 | She felt as guilty about running away as if she had just robbed a lame beggar of his last groat . |
| 21 | Sybil made a faint tutting noise and shuddered , as if she had just discovered an unpleasant insect on one of her flowers . |
| 22 | ‘ You do want something to eat ? ’ she asked , turning to Loretta as if she had just remembered her manners . |
| 23 | as if she had just been in actual combat she dropped down on to the couch and sat gasping , drawing in long , shuddering breaths . |
| 24 | She simply looks satisfied , as if she had just bitten into the most delicious slab of chocolate she ever tasted . |
| 25 | Meeting his eyes , their expression now cool and shuttered , Luce wondered if she had just imagined that blazing look . |
| 26 | Nicolo had flung his head back ; he was laughing as if she had just told the world 's funniest joke . |
| 27 | But , anyway , if you had just killed a man and taken his pocket-book , would you quietly go through it there ? |
| 28 | I read the other day a well praised first novel in which the narrator — who is both sexually inexperienced and an amateur of French literature — comically rehearses to himself the best way to kiss a girl without being rebuffed : ‘ With a slow , sensual , irresistible strength , draw her gradually towards you while gazing into her eyes as if you had just been given a copy of the first , suppressed edition of Madame Bovary . ’ |
| 29 | Particularly if you had just had a row with your wife , and rather suspected that you were in the wrong . |
| 30 | How could something that felt so right make you look like this , as if you had just committed the worst crime in the world ? |