Example sentences of "as if [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I feel as if we failed that man somewhere , ’ she said a little later as together with David and Martin Foulds she watched the ambulance leave the factory . |
| 2 | So we sat there in the silence as if we knew each other well and had no need merely to talk ; and as a matter of fact it seemed in a way to suit the stillness of the day . |
| 3 | First , we all have to live and act as if we were sure and as if we had reliable knowledge . |
| 4 | ‘ We were sticking our necks out further and further but once we got to the South Col we had the same chance to get to the top as if we had 20 Sherpas helping and a brick-built house up there , ’ said Harry . |
| 5 | It was like climbing a waterfall , but there was a warder at the top , clinging to a railing and yelling to us at the top of his voice to hurry — as if we needed such encouragement . |
| 6 | Indeed , when Jessica had locked her car with all the others at the Moira roundabout — travel-sharing , she assumed , hardheaded Ulstermen saving on the petrol — Rory had walked up to her and kissed her lightly on the mouth as if they owned each other . |
| 7 | The road cut a swath through the centre of the belt of trees , and as the gig passed between them they seemed to menace , arms grotesquely waving , as if they resented this intrusion through their territory . |
| 8 | All four blushed as if they had one heart . |
| 9 | It was about how to deal with a road accident and I arranged for a smashed-up car to be towed into the studio , and for actors to sprawl around , made-up to look as if they had appalling injuries . |
| 10 | Figure 9–3(b) illustrates the special ease where A and B have identical utility functions or , alternatively , where it is accepted that A and B ought always to be treated as if they had identical utility functions . |
| 11 | It was n't as if they had some sort of relationship ; he had taken her out only to help her with her search . |
| 12 | The rest were a maze of villages with names that sounded like the refrain for a pantomime song , villages whose lives were as far removed from those Manchester lives he had known for so long that it was as if they inhabited another planet . |
| 13 | Hyam also deplores the recent ‘ willingness of Third World governments to adopt the peculiar Purity laws and conventions of Britain in the 1880s as if they represented ultimate truths about human civilisation ’ . |
| 14 | Then , as if to break the spell , the sheep dogs began to bark frenziedly and the nearby sheep stampeded as if they sensed impending danger . |
| 15 | He had decided to act as if they liked each other ; he did n't know how he affected her and he was n't going to know . |
| 16 | She used to ring Otto at his office , rather as if she felt this experience had some professional interest to Otto . |
| 17 | ‘ It sounds as if she wanted this house more than she wanted him , ’ Lucy mused , knowing that if she herself loved a man she 'd be happy to live in any humble abode . |
| 18 | She looked as if she needed that weekend away . |
| 19 | Midnight briefly intercepted his look , then turned to the side table , exchanging a platter of carved meats for cheesecake , as if he rejected any attempt to penetrate his wall of reserve . |
| 20 | Only Zed Juron was wholly uninjured — that slab of a man was so nimble at dodging , as if he had second sight — though a ricocheting shuriken had smashed his communicator . |
| 21 | He is a man of about fifty-five , with a quick ‘ nervous manner , as if he had pressing engagements elsewhere , which seems unlikely : the university has run out of steam and its faculty members are all jumping ship , if they can . |
| 22 | Sometimes it felt as if he had less substance than the images in this room . |
| 23 | He could imagine Galland , a small man who looked as if he had permanent indigestion . |
| 24 | ‘ I should think so , ’ he said severely , and paused , and swallowed as if he had some constriction , and then asked , ‘ Where were we ? |
| 25 | Meredith spoke as if he had some power over his cousin . |
| 26 | ‘ And it 's not as if he had any convictions of his own , ’ said his Auntie Ethel . |
| 27 | He looked at Huy half-apologetically , cringing , as if he feared another blow . |
| 28 | Edouard looked at him , red in the face with indignation , reaching for the brandy-bottle , glancing towards his brother uneasily , as if he feared more self-justification would be needed . |
| 29 | He walked slowly , not daring to look at the drop on his right and becoming ever more aware of the cold , biting wind and eerie sense of loneliness , as if he hung half way between heaven and earth . |
| 30 | It was as if he exerted some kind of gravitational pull over her . |