Example sentences of "as if [pers pn] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I feel as if we failed that man somewhere , ’ she said a little later as together with David and Martin Foulds she watched the ambulance leave the factory . |
| 2 | Co-producer Robert Relea hit back : ‘ It 's not as if we like working nights . ’ |
| 3 | The partial pressure of component a is given by the ideal gas equation as If we repeat this for all the components and substitute these expressions into equation ( 7 ) we obtain By combining equations ( 8 ) and ( 9 ) we obtain The quantity is known as the mole fraction of component a . |
| 4 | " It does n't look as if we 've any choice , Mr Montgomery , " they young woman grinned . |
| 5 | That may make it seem as if we thought each had specific dates and a definite content . |
| 6 | So we sat there in the silence as if we knew each other well and had no need merely to talk ; and as a matter of fact it seemed in a way to suit the stillness of the day . |
| 7 | First , we all have to live and act as if we were sure and as if we had reliable knowledge . |
| 8 | ‘ We were sticking our necks out further and further but once we got to the South Col we had the same chance to get to the top as if we had 20 Sherpas helping and a brick-built house up there , ’ said Harry . |
| 9 | It was like climbing a waterfall , but there was a warder at the top , clinging to a railing and yelling to us at the top of his voice to hurry — as if we needed such encouragement . |
| 10 | Remarks ( i ) On the face of it , it looks as if we have six results to prove , namely : |
| 11 | It is as if we have two pairs of eyes , one pair inside and another outside the blinkers : without this , Golding 's technique would not produce its ironic effect of dual vision . |
| 12 | as if we have enough droughts without we it , people like |
| 13 | We act and will continue to act as if we have free will , whether our actions are determined or not . |
| 14 | Much talk with friends of what result we would ‘ settle for ’ — as if we have any choice . |
| 15 | Indeed , when Jessica had locked her car with all the others at the Moira roundabout — travel-sharing , she assumed , hardheaded Ulstermen saving on the petrol — Rory had walked up to her and kissed her lightly on the mouth as if they owned each other . |
| 16 | It 's not as if they get much study done the last week or so anyway . ’ |
| 17 | The road cut a swath through the centre of the belt of trees , and as the gig passed between them they seemed to menace , arms grotesquely waving , as if they resented this intrusion through their territory . |
| 18 | When the last penitent left I strolled to the back of the chapel and was surprised to see three young contra soldiers gazing rather wistfully in through the door — as if they felt unworthy to set foot inside . |
| 19 | The predatory spirits , on the other hand , are described as if they bore actual malice toward humans . |
| 20 | All four blushed as if they had one heart . |
| 21 | His kiss was leisurely as if they had all the time in the world to explore each other , and he could afford to wait for her response , confident in his own powers of arousing it . |
| 22 | He kissed her again , his lips lingering on hers as if they had all the time in the world . |
| 23 | It was about how to deal with a road accident and I arranged for a smashed-up car to be towed into the studio , and for actors to sprawl around , made-up to look as if they had appalling injuries . |
| 24 | ( Or : At first it did n't look as if they had much in common . ) |
| 25 | Figure 9–3(b) illustrates the special ease where A and B have identical utility functions or , alternatively , where it is accepted that A and B ought always to be treated as if they had identical utility functions . |
| 26 | It was n't as if they had some sort of relationship ; he had taken her out only to help her with her search . |
| 27 | The rest were a maze of villages with names that sounded like the refrain for a pantomime song , villages whose lives were as far removed from those Manchester lives he had known for so long that it was as if they inhabited another planet . |
| 28 | Hyam also deplores the recent ‘ willingness of Third World governments to adopt the peculiar Purity laws and conventions of Britain in the 1880s as if they represented ultimate truths about human civilisation ’ . |
| 29 | Then , as if to break the spell , the sheep dogs began to bark frenziedly and the nearby sheep stampeded as if they sensed impending danger . |
| 30 | A particular sanctity was attached to victims of the river , as if they embodied some terrible truth . |