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 .
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