Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] if [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bastard smiled evilly at me as if he would have loved to have put a noose round my neck and had me swinging on a branch of the overhanging elm tree . |
| 2 | A small , dark , intense man with a beard and drooping moustache , who is probably looking at me as if he would like to put daggers in my back ? ’ |
| 3 | I asked about the baby and she looked at me as if I should know . ’ |
| 4 | My feet got so hot and sweaty I took my trainers and socks off and walked along in my bare feet till I saw a traffic warden looking at me as if she 'd get me arrested . |
| 5 | He seemed fascinated by his hands ; he was flexing the fingers rhythmically and gazing at them as if they could tell him something important about himself . |
| 6 | She felt the steel strength of his arms around her and her skin quivered from the warmth of his breath on her cheek before he released her as if she might contaminate him . |
| 7 | He loved her like a woman and he ran his hands lightly over her as if she would respond to his touch . |
| 8 | Rosa laughed and looked at her as if she should know . |
| 9 | The girl had a way of looking at her as if she could read her mind and Ida did n't like it . |
| 10 | He treated her as if he would love and defend her under any circumstances . |
| 11 | FitzAlan was holding her as if he would make her part of himself , as if he could not bear to be separate from her . |
| 12 | But then she realised that the customer in question was looking at her as if he could read her thoughts — and found them highly amusing . |
| 13 | The Poet evidently wants to detach himself totally from the Friend , stand away from him as if he might suffer corruption or contagion by going any nearer . |
| 14 | Then words , distant and unknown to him , began to form in him and to speak through him , and a name loomed before him as if he could feel the place it represented ; and the name was Callanish . |
| 15 | Her eyes followed him as he unpacked the bike , and she wondered if he was just going to take it for granted that she would sleep with him of if he would offer her the choice . |
| 16 | He held out his leather tobacco pouch : the young man looked at it as if it would bite him who touched . |
| 17 | She had a glass of gin in her hand , but she was not drinking it , just holding it as if it might offer her the cheer and support that she might not otherwise find elsewhere . |
| 18 | His hands left her shoulders as he breathed a sigh of relief , and his gaze locked with hers as if he could read her soul in its depth . |