Example sentences of "if [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She made as if to poke him in the eye . |
| 2 | Coombes leaned out of the window and shouted ‘ Come on then , this time ’ as if to pull me off the road . |
| 3 | The old woman settled back in her chair and shook her shoulders as if to free them from the burdens of the present . |
| 4 | He and his sister stood on either side of the bed , bending over her as if to protect her from the perils of the night with their own flesh and bone . |
| 5 | These icy cold droplets seemed to cut through to the bone as if to punish him for the way he was . |
| 6 | Moreover , they choose to disregard the ordinary law governing the transfer of title , calling it the civil law , as if to contrast it with the criminal law and thus render it surplus to requirements . |
| 7 | as if to remind him of the past , Controller Macdonald had a large video print of that moment on one wall of his office , which was in the basement . |
| 8 | Before Mungo and Emily could focus on it , Vic made as if to throw it into the air . |