Example sentences of "[prep] if [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made as if to say something , but I just beamed at him and he had to let it go . |
| 2 | Jenkins turned as if to say something and Werewolf waved a hand at him . |
| 3 | as if to refute everything that Celia had been thinking , Dr Shalcross suddenly said , ‘ Many women fight shy of motherhood for one reason or another . |
| 4 | He looked round the table as if daring anyone to smile . |
| 5 | Though , ’ he added slowly as if thinking something out , ‘ I did n't leave there for , oh , about twenty , perhaps thirty minutes , I should n't wonder . |
| 6 | She paused at the head of the stairs , as if expecting someone to ascend ; the house remained silent save for the creaking of settling timbers . |
| 7 | Bertha Cohen spoke slowly , as if recounting something by rote , her hands intent on the job of scooping out each piece of fish without breaking the enclosing skin . |
| 8 | Gebrec began expostulating and pointing in Fernand 's direction ; Bonard patted his arm and wagged a finger , glancing towards the bus as if saying something like ‘ Not in front of the children ’ . |
| 9 | She now flapped her hand as if shooing something away , then went out of the kitchen and onto the landing , and here , as she had before , she stopped , but only long enough to raise her eyes to the whitewashed ceiling as her mind said , Dear God , do n't let anything come of this . |
| 10 | And he had turned , his sweet face alive with devilment , one arm outflung as if presenting someone on stage to an audience . |
| 11 | as if that solves everything , as if to hate something means it ca n't have affected you . |