Example sentences of "as if [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if to seal off the barbarians and leave them to their own devices , Hadrian 's Wall was built from Solway to Tyne between AD 122 and 127 . |
| 2 | Energy radiating from one focus is reflected by a hyperbola as if to radiate from the other focus . |
| 3 | Finally , when his hand was on her shoulder , she half-turned , slapped his arm away , and made as if to burst inside the tower for sanctuary . |
| 4 | as if to escape from the great pool of light , the destroyer gathered speed , but it moved with her , red , green , and orange tracer streaming into her sides . |
| 5 | Now he linked corroboree , intichiuma of spring , and Crucifixion , as if to find beneath the ‘ stony places ’ of the Bible the ‘ stony places ’ of the Australian desert photographed by Spencer and Gillen and presented in The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life . |
| 6 | She lowered her head , as if to look at the floor . |