Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] if a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had apparently felt as if a burden had been lifted from them and why tempt fate by attempting to get her back ? |
| 2 | Dalgliesh wondered why it was that , when walking towards the sea , there came a moment when its roar suddenly increased as if a menace , quiescent and benign , had suddenly realized and gathered up its power . |
| 3 | He just looks as if a puff of wind would blow him away , ’ George finished . |
| 4 | The norm of institutional patriotism lost its force with senators no longer speaking as if a seat in the Senate was the very height of their ambition |
| 5 | This is a Southern Asian fish which can reach lengths well over 24in ( 60cm ) , with a base colour of gold/brown , it then looks as if a tyre has run along the length of the body leaving dark brown tread markings all along the eel . |
| 6 | Looking back , it almost seems as if a policy of ‘ build 'em up , knock 'em down ’ was being formally instituted . |
| 7 | Admittedly , we do sometimes talk as if a person could have a pain in his foot and be unaware of it , perhaps while his attention is on something else , but this is explained by there being different levels of consciousness , or self-consciousness , in the mind ; it does not require our saying that pains have the same sort of mind-independent existence as tables . |