Example sentences of "[prep] if [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He describes the reformation in faith , secured at baptism and by penance , leaving the soul as if on the very brink of a pit from which it has been rescued but into which it is in imminent danger of falling back . |
| 2 | He simply exaggerated it , bringing the ball wide round the tree on the wind as if on the proverbial piece of string . |
| 3 | Then their mood would change , and they would languorously intertwine and writhe as if to the stately music of a sarabande . |
| 4 | ‘ It was a conversion experience , ’ he says , ‘ I had seen his carvings in a vague sort of way already [ Esterly was then a post-graduate student at Cambridge and surrounded by some of Gibbons ' best work ] but I found myself looking at them there in St James 's as if for the first time . |
| 5 | I felt myself falling , falling , as if for the first time , deeper and deeper into mysterious pits of passion and anxiety , longing and despair . |
| 6 | She admired his hands , seeing the slender curled fingers and pink palms as if for the first time . |
| 7 | And then he smiled at her as if for the first time , a smile that made her think that he had been touched by God . |
| 8 | For Lee everything was being spotlit and she was seeing the people around her as if for the first time . |
| 9 | And yet , in spite of the fatigue , he felt , good , as if for the first time in his life he had really stretched himself and grown up . |
| 10 | It is all very well expounding the theory that an artist should cultivate an innocent eye , seeing things as if for the first time . |
| 11 | In which case the non-verbal concomitants of the various utterances are improvised as if for the first time , and in the best of all possible productions an unforeseeable Lear , Macbeth or Rosalind emerges in performance , and the speeches come across expressing meanings which would have been hard to foresee from reading the bare text . |
| 12 | Then one July evening , just before the war , he suddenly noticed the roses as if for the first time . |
| 13 | Affection , melancholy , and other emotions that eluded classification , surged and slopped inside her as she noted each detail as if for the first time — or as if for the last . |
| 14 | Helped by Vladimir Riha 's reedy , unhoneyed tone , this performance comes over with irresistible rustic pungency and vigour as if in the open air rather than the Beaux Arts ' drawingroom . |
| 15 | Back from the great plains of Central Canada comes the brief response , as crisp and neutral as if from the other side of the airwell , ‘ Treacher . ’ |
| 16 | She looked at the singer and his wife as if from the wrong end of a telescope . |
| 17 | It is as if within the wider panorama particular topics become a focus of especial attention . |