Example sentences of "[prep] if [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leni smiled quickly , then just sat , very upright as if setting a good example , and seemed to be thinking something out . |
| 2 | Now you have castles grim towering to heaven ; again , a storm-beat wall of cliff , the mist surgings beneath imitating the motions of the waves of ocean ; now you seem to get a peep of fairyland , and think you see the dwellers in a city of light : again , the veil seems as if hiding a very abode of woes , dark places of gloom . |
| 3 | The man leans forward , grasps the paper as if to take a closer look at it , and removes the small white packet of cocaine from behind my thumb . |
| 4 | He pulled his overcoat about him , shivered exaggeratedly and , as if resuming a friendly conversation , complained mildly : ‘ It 's cold in here . |
| 5 | This doubt of not quite knowing so worried me that I sometimes approached my visualization as if addressing a public meeting . |
| 6 | It sent her backing nervously towards the casement window as if to set a safer distance between the two of them . |
| 7 | My partner almost ran across the traverse as if to depart a potential trouble spot before it was aware of his passage . |
| 8 | As always , she carefully split a word into two distinct parts , dropping her voice in a conspiratorial way , as if uttering a mild obscenity . |
| 9 | MacMillan has made this last song a welcome to the future as the three protagonists quietly and slowly come forwards , their hands linked , gradually raising their heads as if greeting a new day . |
| 10 | The second part of the poem was written at Stockburn-on-Tees in 1799 , and by the end of that year the two-part poem was transcribed into fair copy as if considered a completed work . |
| 11 | Sometimes Sebastian was there , sometimes he was n't , but , whichever way Rosemary 's conscience pulled , she — sometimes late , as if having a last-minute tug-o'-war with her upbringing — was always there . |
| 12 | And just as they were about to leave , as if to make a grand exit of it , O kissed Boy again , very publicly . |
| 13 | He looked at it suspiciously , and almost as if contemplating a sly kick at one of the wheels , as he unloaded the food parcels the diminutive and cheery Mrs Binkworthy thought Fenella needed . |
| 14 | ‘ You — ’ Then , as if making a supreme effort to block out any fury from his voice , he said , ‘ Yes , that is a condition of employment , but I wo n't hold you to it . |
| 15 | Two men dressed in long underwear would shake hands and then bend forward as if making a deep bow to each other . |
| 16 | He bent his head to her breast again , still nuzzling through the thin cotton , as if finding a perverse pleasure in delaying the moment when his lips would trail their way across her flushed skin . |
| 17 | Now what 's happened , what would happen if we were to follow the same type of line there would be that the airfield would stay open as if needed a small commuter airfield . |
| 18 | He listens , and sometimes he inclines his head sympathetically , as if to get a better purchase on what I am saying . |
| 19 | Of modern poets , I had of course spoken to the boys — and to the masters for that matter , for most had ventured no further than Hardy and Houseman , like the Brasenose dons — of Eliot , Pound and the later Yeats ; and I discovered that they lapped this up as if slaking a mental thirst . |
| 20 | She achieved the crest of the road and saw it spill over , and the village in the bottom of the valley , silent as if drowned a hundred years beneath a lake . |
| 21 | He rolls the word around his mouth , as if savouring a good malt . |
| 22 | Benjamin smiled as if savouring a secret joke . |
| 23 | She sat down on the roses-and-castles chair with a ludicrous sense of formality , as if paying a polite call in a tailored suit and a small , veiled hat . |
| 24 | She took his wrist between thumb and forefinger , and held his hand up between them as if gripping a putrid fish by the tail . |