Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] if [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proposition that fax was invented by a Scot in the middle of the 19th century sounds rather as if it might come from the repertoire of E. L. Wisty , a companion piece to such wisdoms as " Did you know that Leonardo da Vinci invented the compact disc ? " |
| 2 | He swept his hat from the dresser and crushed it on his head and went outside as if he might break down the doors in his way . |
| 3 | He sought her out with his hands but she pushed him away as if he would hurt her and no reassurance satisfied her . |
| 4 | With eyes fixed on me as if I was hypnotisin' him , he takes the papermate out of the tray and moves away as if I might bite . |
| 5 | The river immediately floated my free legs away as if it would have them , and I had to grab the wire fiercely to avoid going with the current . |
| 6 | It had a sort of changing-room summer house , and a brick building that looked hopefully as if it might have something to do with heating the water . |
| 7 | What was at best a speculative investment six months ago by five of the six major accountancy bodies , the BBC and accountancy trainers BPP , looks now as if it could turn into a roaring success . |
| 8 | Some reason why he was watching her cautiously as if she would erupt with anger . |
| 9 | Almost as if we can go on forever if that 's how it 's got to be . |
| 10 | It seemed almost as if she would have to side with Ianthe against the anthropologists , and this was not at all what she had intended . |
| 11 | She spoke almost as if she could read his mind . |
| 12 | ‘ When Señor Mitchell gets back I would like us all to have a nice little trip , ’ she announced , sitting and smiling round almost as if she could see them . |
| 13 | Len , however , had his gaze fixed on David 's face and almost as if he could read his mind , and ignoring the other two , he said roughly , ‘ They 're not taking the case , are they , Doc ? ’ |
| 14 | She flushed , almost as if he could have known the part he 'd played in her extraordinarily sensual dreams . |
| 15 | It was almost as if he 'd hit some kind of a block . |
| 16 | [ I was ] so oppressed by a sense of sin that I felt almost as if I should die ! |
| 17 | And when Cadfael came slowly back to her across the empty court , she stood in his way great-eyed , fronting him gravely as if she would penetrate into the most remote recesses of his mind . |
| 18 | But then he se he seemed then as if he 'd think twice before he 'd do anything when he used to come in you know I er I said to him I said look we used to call him in them days you know , now what did you that for ? |
| 19 | Maxwell 's face had darkened and his wife was looking at him anxiously as if she would like to interfere . |
| 20 | Sure , there are no working clocks in the entire flat , just one lively broken green thing that ticks happily as if it could tell the time , though the second hand only pulses and stays in one place . |