Example sentences of "as if it [verb] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a black and white picture , superficially scratched , and curling at the edges , as if it had received much handling . |
| 2 | The most striking feature of his appearance was a sheepskin jacket which looked as if it had seen better days , sometime in the late nineteen seventies . |
| 3 | ‘ The Libyan desert has become an inferno where the front line moves continuously as if it had gone mad , ’ wrote Monelli , an Italian war correspondent . |
| 4 | But repeat the procedure often enough and the response will diminish and eventually the animal will no longer curl itself into a ball when touched — as if it had become accustomed to the stimulus and no longer regarded it as dangerous . |
| 5 | A flicker of rebellion stole into her mind and , as if it had needed that impetus , one clear thought struggled free . |
| 6 | But where Paula 's hair had shone and bounced as if it had caught some of the morning 's sunlight her own was straight and mouse coloured , where Paula 's eyes were the clearest , sharpest green hers were muddied to a very ordinary shade of hazel . |
| 7 | And , as this post here , with , whatever it is , it looks as if it 's got some paddings on the ground , maybe a , a boat sometimes gets moored up to it and that 's just to stop the boat er banging up agai maybe the tide comes in that far , I do n't know . |
| 8 | I do n't know , it looks as if it 's got some grit in it for when it gets icy I suppose you have to put he grit down there . |
| 9 | ‘ It seems as if it has become fashionable to suggest that Manchester United might suddenly become nervous . |
| 10 | The Damsel certainly sounds as if it has gone blind through an undetermined infection . |