Example sentences of "[prep] if [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He paced up and down between the scullery and the living-room as if on the deck of a ship . |
| 2 | One must talk to people physically present as if on the telephone , where frequent interjections and verbal responses must be given if only to assure the other party that one is still paying attention . |
| 3 | When at last he came to his senses , rather ashamed of his lapse into sensitivity , the floor around him was thickly carpeted with tiny discarded wings , as if with the residue of his own aerial poetic thoughts . |
| 4 | The slow sliding drift towards five o'clock on a Friday afternoon would fill me with panic , as if at the presence of life ebbing . |
| 5 | Of the three , that showing John Tradescant is the finest , for neither corpse in the other two paintings is shown in shrouds , both women having been painted as if at the moment of death rather than after the laying-out . |
| 6 | All the problems that we have been wrestling with over recent years in attempting to formulate a set of principles for communicative language teaching suddenly vanish as if at the waving of a wand . |
| 7 | He rose and then dived within her , starting slowly as if to the beating of a primal drum . |
| 8 | ‘ And so it comes to me , ’ he said quietly , as if to the painting . |
| 9 | A lofty and spacious carriage , the G slips from rough country into a more courtly role as if to the manner born . |
| 10 | Still twitching and shuddering , as if to the beat of the wrong pulse , the dhāmi looks at the child , willing his eyes to focus , be still . |
| 11 | Nessie found herself reacting as if to the parish priest or the headmaster of the school . |
| 12 | The famous late figurine of a goddess found in a small rural shrine at Gazi wears a diadem embellished with three carefully depicted poppy seed-heads , and they have been cut as if for the extraction of opium . |
| 13 | As the aircraft continued over the wood it started to fly erratically , described by a second witness as ‘ swaying from side to side as if under the control of a novice ’ . |
| 14 | The crutch of the jumpsuit shot forwards as if under the impetus of some mighty erection . |
| 15 | He was wheezing now , as if in the grip of an asthma attack . |
| 16 | An eminent psychologist has remarked that a man in a mood is almost as if in the grip of a small psychosis , and can find himself helpless in the face of it , unless he has trained himself not to identify with it too strongly . |
| 17 | Her sapphire-blue eyes wide with shock , her whole body shaking with tension as if in the grip of a raging fever , Laura stared across the room at her husband . |
| 18 | Often she is a small figure appearing , as if in the distance , behind or above a group of ecstatically dancing priestesses . |
| 19 | I saw him glance involuntarily upwards , as if in the direction of Heaven or , possibly , the floor above . |
| 20 | If Henry offered him a drink , Donald would compress his lips , lower his eyes , as if in the middle of a difficult diagnosis , and nod , slowly , responsibly , like a man burdened with some ghastly secret about the state of Henry ’ s insides . |
| 21 | Druid 's Bottom was a long way below them : a doll 's house with tall chimneys , tucked in a fold of the valley as if in the crook of an elbow . |
| 22 | Her voice sank tiredly , as if in the absence of her daughter 's goading all energy had left her . |
| 23 | Dream in unison with her , as if in the womb , |
| 24 | It was nice and cool here in the bowels of the earth and the sounds muffled as if from the bottom of a swimming pool . |
| 25 | Finally a man began to sing in the muffled distance , as if from the bottom of a lake . |
| 26 | And the faintly ghoulish Earthquake ride gives us a juddering inkling , as if from the inside of the special effects of that now forgotten movie . |
| 27 | But the words were not said as if from the mind of a child but from that of an adult who had experienced many things . |
| 28 | Braque sensed , too , that by dismissing the conventional , single viewpoint perspective it was possible to synthesize into the depiction of the head a variety of information ; thus in a three-quarter view the knot of hair at the back of the head is seen clearly , as if from the side . |
| 29 | As priests and choir chant the story of the resurrection one priest is instructed to move away as if from the tomb , and then to turn back when another sings in Latin ‘ Whither goest thou ? ’ |
| 30 | Momentarily undecided as to whether to go on looking or to give up the chase there and then , her eyes lingered on the stranger 's face , and for a heart-beat , or less , his features blurred , and in their flux , caught as if by the sun off a wing in the stratosphere , she saw Gentle , his hair swept back from his high forehead , his grey eyes all yearning , his mouth , which she 'd not known she missed till now , ready to break into a smile . |