Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] if [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He imagined for a moment that he was still in short pants , until she turned to him and added , ‘ What I mean is , I would have still recognised you , ’ and as if to soften her first statement she added further , ‘ Of course , you 've grown much taller . |
| 2 | The conservative leaders wanted a Prince Consort not a Prince president , and as if to underline their determination to keep Louis-Napoleon in check , the same group refused a request for the restoration of universal suffrage by the abrogation of the law of 1850 . |
| 3 | ‘ Have a cigarette , ’ he says , and as if to persuade me he lights one himself in the corridor . |
| 4 | Gothic he stated was not the national style its exponents claimed , but a foreign importation and as if to counter his own question to Scott , he recited a long list of classical public buildings in Britain and Ireland . |
| 5 | I ca n't take my eyes off this beautiful woman and as if sensing my gaze she hurries off to the adjoining room to get dressed . |
| 6 | Fear sliced through her and she tried to close her ears to the sound , but as if to mock her it was joined by another and another until the air was filled with a shaking roar . |
| 7 | ‘ Did you have a — ? ’ good trip , Leith might have said , but as if thinking he 'd given them enough time to sort themselves out , Naylor was butting in , and positively flabbergasting her by what he chose to interrupt with ! |
| 8 | She shrugged , not dismissively but as if to say she was helpless . |
| 9 | The meteorologists would prove to be right about the sun , but as if to prove their fallibility at four eleven a steady drizzle began . |
| 10 | But as if to prove his powers of condensation in the autobiography , Sisson exercises remarkable reticence on matters of personal and family sentiment . |