Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] if [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruthven suddenly rose as if to suppress some excitement inside him . |
| 2 | The Doctor frowned as if having second thoughts , then stepped aside as promised . |
| 3 | The southern Italian peasant , he said , acts as if following this rule : ‘ Maximise the material short-run advantage of the nuclear family ; assume that all others will do likewise . |
| 4 | He sat on the edge of the bed and began to recite all he knew as if memorising some poem : ‘ Buckingham dies , the agents die , garrotted to death . ’ |
| 5 | The debate over academic freedom has been structured as if attaining academic freedom is part of a zero-sum game . |