Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] if the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looks to me as if the situation was that the Inquisition would have liked to do nothing but was forced to do so by the detailed and documented evidence claiming that Galileo was in fact a heretic . |
| 2 | He looked at me as if the answer was obvious . |
| 3 | It looks to me as if the Doctor manipulated Paula Engado 's feelings with a faked message from her adulterous lover Cheryl Russell to the effect that Cheryl would n't leave her husband , Sam . |
| 4 | From what you said about reconnaissance equipment it rather sounds to me as if the tornado D R one A is likely to be replaced by in this reconnaissance role . |
| 5 | You know the steep hill at , at erm between Martlesham and Woodbridge , you know as you left Martlesham you went down that steep hill down to the erm the pub at the bottom of the hill where you came out on the looks to me as if the new road misses that altogether |
| 6 | And once they climbed so high they entered the clouds and there was nothing but a great whiteness around them as if the world had been erased by a giant rubber . |
| 7 | Members of clinical teams which manage attempted suicide patients should be familiar with the special problem of patients who deliberately injure themselves , and not just deal with them as if the behaviour was the same as self-poisoning . |
| 8 | Instead he fixed his eyes on his hands , which were clasped together on the desk , studying them as if the words he must say were written on his bony fingers . |
| 9 | They did n't come haring towards them as if the mere sight of them was the best thing that had happened all day . |
| 10 | Perhaps other people do n't suffer from my nightmares or waken in a cold sweat in the middle of the night , confronting fragmented episodes from their distant past , floating by them as if the detritus of a forgotten shipwreck in an Arctic sea . |
| 11 | He slammed a fist up at her as if the force of his gesture could throw her the last five feet , and screamed at her although he knew that she could n't hear . |
| 12 | Suddenly it seemed to her as if the whole world wanted to know about every detail of her life . |
| 13 | He turned to glance at her as if the sound of her laugh was quite pleasant to his ears . |
| 14 | It had sounded to him as if the shot had come from somewhere near the pools . |
| 15 | Holly seemed to look at him as if the matter of a fire that destroyed the office of the Commandant was neither of occasion nor note . |
| 16 | My eyes were drawn to it as if the Officer had left part of himself here on the grass . |
| 17 | The way the poem is ordered allows us momentarily to read it as if the juxtaposition was just that of eye and Canaletto , for the eye appears at first as an independent entity . |
| 18 | For Millie , the lesson needed no thinking , for the sister had practically told them what to say , but she wove a story round it as if the incident were happening in Benton Fields at the present time . |
| 19 | While he and Charlotte went steadily ahead making their preparations , Ruth rushed at hers as if the summons to depart might arrive the very next day . |
| 20 | The only difference then was the weather for it turned cold and hard , the clouds massing thick above us as if the sky intended to fall and crush out all life on the face of the earth . |
| 21 | It looks to many of us as if the Government are using the helmet issue to divert attention from spending money on real facilities for cyclists . |