Example sentences of "[verb] as if [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It now looks as if the first commercial versions will be brought to market soon after CD-I is made generally available worldwide . |
| 2 | Alice Wilson 's cellar dwelling with its brick floor ‘ so damp that it seemed as if the last washing could never dry up ’ would not be far distant from the Davenports ' if the nature of that ‘ dampness ’ were defined . |
| 3 | Midnight 's head drooped as if the last of his energy had deserted him , and when he spoke his voice was muffled : ‘ You forget I am a slave . |
| 4 | The thir it sounds as if the sixth should be bigger does n't it cos it 's got a six in it . |
| 5 | ‘ It is a truth not generally acknowledged ’ Burrows points out ‘ that in most discussions of works of English fiction , we proceed as if a third of our material were not really there . ’ |
| 6 | He felt as if every last drop of feeling had been sucked out of him . |
| 7 | He does manage carefully prepared appearances in public , he does see journalists ( this interview was conducted by telephone , still his chief channel of communication ) , it does sometimes seem as if every second person on the London meeja circuit has sat next to Rushdie at some dinner party . |
| 8 | It was already beginning to feel as if the last four years had never happened ; as if she were still the confused , angry , raw-nerved girl she had been when he had finally walked out on her . |