Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] if a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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1 | He just looks as if a puff of wind would blow him away , ’ George finished . |
2 | Looking back , it almost seems as if a policy of ‘ build 'em up , knock 'em down ’ was being formally instituted . |
3 | I feel as if a bit of me had been chopped off . |
4 | He must have been about seventeen and was so-pale and thin he looked as if a gust of wind might blow him away . |
5 | There was a time , at the end of summer , a hopeful time , when it looked as if a lot of would-be railway companies would simply vanish , like the mushrooms they were . |