Example sentences of "as if [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were n't hurting anyone or upsetting anyone , it was n't as if we stood in the corridor kissing and cuddling . |
| 2 | He spoke very shrewdly and at alarming speed , in a low voice that seemed to come from elsewhere ; though his lips might be moving in front of Arthur , the shafts of help would sound as if they came from the wings or the orchestra pit . |
| 3 | In response , however , Polycarp turns to the crowd in the amphitheatre and shouts out the words which the Proconsul has invited him to repeal as if they applied to the audience in the arena . |
| 4 | ‘ Contemporary writers , ’ she said , as if they bordered on the unmentionable . |
| 5 | ‘ These words are not included in section 1(1) of the Theft Act , but the appellant contended that the subsection should be construed as if they were , as if they appeared after the words ‘ appropriates . ’ |
| 6 | She stared at him a moment , her eyes narrowed slightly , as if she saw through the flesh to the bone itself , and while he met her staring eyes unflinchingly , something in the depths of him squirmed and tried to break away . |
| 7 | Christie sat in the dock yesterday gently nodding as if she agreed with the judges ' decision to increase her sentence by 80 per cent . |
| 8 | Up there on the top step , looking down on Lucenzo 's bright fair head , she felt as if she stood on the brink of a great change in her life . |
| 9 | It 's almost as if he paces in the corner of the office waiting to get his hands on me — and he gets jealous when I 'm writing about someone else . ’ |
| 10 | Then as if he had on the spur of the moment decided to take her into his confidence , he added , ‘ But she was always a tiny bit sad . |
| 11 | The Office remarks that " he desired rather to be imbued more fully and deeply with the theological doctrines of Holy Scripture than with the study of physical and secular science " which looks as if he left after the trivium . |
| 12 | Candace Rainford was clinging to his arm and he did not look as if he minded in the slightest . |
| 13 | Jake spoke ; his voice was different , deeper and more echoing , as if he spoke in the language of the half mortals . |
| 14 | It flashed on me that it was also the smile that Conchis sometimes wore ; as if he sat before the head and practised it . |
| 15 | Howard Barker is described in the programme as a playwright ‘ known for his robust stance ’ — feet apart , biceps raised ? — ‘ against the tide of TV obsessed populist drama , ’ but the dialogue in A Hard Heart sounds as if it came from the violet-ink-filled pen of Oscar Wilde . |
| 16 | It seemed to Carolyn that there must be a vividly speeded up life flitting through the infant 's dreams , as if it skimmed in the air like a bird over the facts of its life and they were reflected as changingly and as unknowingly on its face as the moving bird would be in seas , rivers , lakes , in stagnant puddles on flat roofs , and silted-up canals . |
| 17 | So that it looked as if it belonged to the house . |
| 18 | This type of noise is often from a diff and travels down the tubular propshaft to sound as if it comes from the gearbox and gets louder as the roadspeed increases . |
| 19 | The shock seemed to travel through the entire tree , as if that drop , that weight , that terrible dry snap became a tremor in the tap root , as if it bled into the sap . |
| 20 | and there was a girl on and she said what is a bolster case and when I tried to explain to her she looked at me as if I lived in the ark and that was going back twenty years ago . |
| 21 | And this is of course , as if I agree with the view that you expressed yesterday in a general context , although it was made specifically then in relation to one village , any recommendation I make in relation to that village , if it is based on the general principle , must apply by analogy also to Skelton , and I would have little choice but to recommend to the councils that they may wish or indeed they should , reconsider this question of washing-over or insetting elsewhere . |