Example sentences of "as if [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | and walked around as if we owned the place . |
| 2 | They 're not building that runway at Potosi so that we Bolivians can travel , as if we had the money ! |
| 3 | As we enter more and more into the transcendent , the material world recedes and it is as if we mount the carriage of the transcendent and speed through a blurred landscape of the mundane , seeing it only as scenery , not as something threatening or important to us . |
| 4 | It is not as if we NEED the money , just another case of the directors lining their pockets . |
| 5 | They were just wandering about as if they owned the place . ’ |
| 6 | Michael and Geoffrey walked into the spacious hallway as if they owned the house . |
| 7 | The assassins had walked in here as if they owned the place and destroyed everything . |
| 8 | The boatman cursed , telling them to sit down and keep still , and then , puffing and sweating , he pulled his craft out midstream through the flocks of swans who arched their wings in protest as if they owned the river . |
| 9 | Beyond the crowd , almost out of the Market Square altogether , two male riders waited as if they mistrusted the milling crowd . |
| 10 | And she was so toffee-nosed as if they said the curtains . |
| 11 | I have subsequently discovered in them something which is not easy to admit even to myself : it is as if they anticipated the present . |
| 12 | And you do n't fall asleep , as you are inclined to do if you try to be an absorbent sponge , soaking in what the authors say as if they had the last word . |
| 13 | They 'd just been told the George Hotel was n't important enough to be listed , but the protestors vowed to physically stop the demolition team if necessary and it looked as if they had the backing of the Planning Authority . |
| 14 | This is achieved by treating highly selective versions of experience and life as if they covered the whole range of experiential processes and forms of living , which , in fact , excludes the normal experiences and lives of the vast majority of the population . |
| 15 | Athelstan was always surprised at-the effect he caused ; here he was in a place where man died for the price of a few coins , but at the sight of the lighted wax candle , the sound of the small tinkling bell and him swathed in a cope , the coarsest men and women stood aside as if they acknowledged the great mysteries he carried. , |
| 16 | McConnell claimed that the cannibal worms behaved as if they remembered the conditioned response their food had learned , whereas worms allowed to cannibalize other , untrained worms showed no such change in behaviour . |
| 17 | The leeches look as if they have the faces of the bodies they have burst from , and they are capable of rearing up and attacking with a cluster of teeth around a central sucker . |
| 18 | Instead they took refuge in the weaker claim that agents , on average over time , behaved as if they possessed the correct underlying model for the purposes of prediction . |
| 19 | In this context penalties are implicitly treated as if they gave the exact decrease in objective function when a variable is branched on ( as opposed to just a bound ) . |
| 20 | Both Prince and policeman , their hands clasped confidently behind their backs , move as if they own the world . |
| 21 | There 's such sad unenthusiasm , on the other hand , about the way Stanford confuses personal doubt with the existence of mystery , as if one engenders the other , and , in doing so , must be assuaged by performance of some farcical rites . |
| 22 | The phone rings , though , so it looks as if somebody pays the phone bills . |
| 23 | She , like other woman-centred psychologists , does not pursue this question , but she manages to write as if she knew the answer . |
| 24 | It was hard , when a man worked as hard as he did , making money for her — yes , and with an ache in his heart — that she should sit there , looking — as if she saw the walls of the room closing in . |
| 25 | She romps around St Mungo 's shelter in City Road , N1 , as if she owns the place . |
| 26 | She behaved as if she owned the place . |
| 27 | FitzAlan turned on her , flinging her off as if she carried the plague . |
| 28 | She was about the same age as his own daughter but she looked as if she had the troubles of the world on her . |
| 29 | She scraped her chair away from her desk and stared at it as if she expected the spider to jump through the lid . |
| 30 | She was more relaxed now , her shoulders less hunched , as if she realised the interview was coming to an end . |