Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] if the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looks to me as if the situation was that the Inquisition would have liked to do nothing but was forced to do so by the detailed and documented evidence claiming that Galileo was in fact a heretic . |
| 2 | It looks to me as if the Doctor manipulated Paula Engado 's feelings with a faked message from her adulterous lover Cheryl Russell to the effect that Cheryl would n't leave her husband , Sam . |
| 3 | Suddenly it seemed to her as if the whole world wanted to know about every detail of her life . |
| 4 | My eyes were drawn to it as if the Officer had left part of himself here on the grass . |
| 5 | Holly seemed to look at him as if the matter of a fire that destroyed the office of the Commandant was neither of occasion nor note . |
| 6 | It had sounded to him as if the shot had come from somewhere near the pools . |
| 7 | From what you said about reconnaissance equipment it rather sounds to me as if the tornado D R one A is likely to be replaced by in this reconnaissance role . |
| 8 | While he and Charlotte went steadily ahead making their preparations , Ruth rushed at hers as if the summons to depart might arrive the very next day . |
| 9 | Members of clinical teams which manage attempted suicide patients should be familiar with the special problem of patients who deliberately injure themselves , and not just deal with them as if the behaviour was the same as self-poisoning . |
| 10 | They did n't come haring towards them as if the mere sight of them was the best thing that had happened all day . |
| 11 | He looked at me as if the answer was obvious . |
| 12 | He turned to glance at her as if the sound of her laugh was quite pleasant to his ears . |
| 13 | Perhaps other people do n't suffer from my nightmares or waken in a cold sweat in the middle of the night , confronting fragmented episodes from their distant past , floating by them as if the detritus of a forgotten shipwreck in an Arctic sea . |