Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] if the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lady Eden once remarked that she felt as if the Suez Canal was flowing through her drawing room . |
| 2 | It was a sensible policy , but it looked as if the Thatcher Government had simply executed a U-turn and baled out a loss-making nationalized industry . |
| 3 | It looked as if the Saunders-Atkinson partnership had done the trick for Villa again in the 77th minute . |
| 4 | From the outside it looked as if the NAMIBIA players surrounding their coach-cum-manager-cum-union President , Henning Snyman , had gathered for the ritual pre-match huddle . |
| 5 | In moral America , it looked as if the Clinton campaign was over before it had begun . |
| 6 | When it looked as if the Danzigers would not oblige the Nazis with an overwhelming vote of confidence , the Nazis set out to help themselves . |
| 7 | These are the hairs that appear to cause the allergic response in human sufferers , so it looked as if the Rex would become the ideal breed for such people to own . |