Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] if [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though he noticed there were some who spoke to the superintendent and were completely ignored , while others looked as if they would have preferred to creep past unknown . |
| 2 | The Blues looked as if they might struggle to punch a hole in a paper bag , let alone score . |
| 3 | Cheltenham had lost their last five games and despite creating some excellent chances , looked as if they might lose their sixth . |
| 4 | The quality of the ball suffered accordingly and although Biarritz scored two tries to Toulon 's one they never looked as if they could win the game . |
| 5 | Hopeful Bid looked as if he would win easily but was taken on by the Clive Brittain-trained Braveboy inside the final furlong . |
| 6 | ‘ Danzig ’ , called my mum , as I disappeared into the house , ‘ looked as if he might do it . |
| 7 | He was gormless , spoke in a funny nasal accent and looked as if he could do with a kick up the backside . |
| 8 | Archie shuffled his feet and looked as if he 'd like to vanish up his parlour chimney . |
| 9 | At the cadenza , she stumbled down the keyboard with something that had elements of a flourish but ended up sounding more like a digital coronary , an awful , shaming collapse of the fingers that , at the last minute , recovered itself and looked as if it might turn into something like the chord of A minor . |
| 10 | The peseta 's devaluation on May 13th looked as if it might help the right-of-centre opposition People 's Party , but the party 's leader , Jose Maria Aznar , failed to exploit the opportunity and polls taken after the devaluation showed the ruling Socialists nosing ahead . |
| 11 | Suddenly my short journalistic career looked as if it would stay short . |
| 12 | And this party looked as if it could go on for hours yet ! |
| 13 | Maybe what I did was an act of complicity , or looked as if it could have been . |
| 14 | At one point it had looked as if she might have been forced to live at home with her parents , and much as Rachel loved them she knew that arrangement just would n't work . |
| 15 | The little girl hesitantly offered the bowl to Marion , who for a moment looked as if she would snatch it and throw it at her . |
| 16 | The girl looked as if she could do with a fairy godmother , or perhaps just a mother . |
| 17 | In the scorching heat she had felt as if she would pass out ; now she wished she had . |
| 18 | The best new piece of equipment at the Royal Welsh Show this week suitable for upland farming conditions sounded as if it should have four legs rather than four wheels . |
| 19 | I think she got expelled from if I can remember . |
| 20 | His arms tightened as if he would absorb her completely , grinding her into himself in a desperate assuagement of an age-old hunger . |