Example sentences of "if [v-ing] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes in the night he cried out in a hoarse voice and moaned as if struggling to escape the grip of a bad dream . |
| 2 | She made no sound but the tips of her taut and bloodless fingers dug into her temples as if seeking to sever the nerves that carried the message from ears to brain . |
| 3 | Ahead were the fountains and Nelson 's Column , jabbing upwards towards the overcast heavens as if threatening to tear the low cloud and release the torrents of rain that seemed to be swelling in them . |
| 4 | But if , having served a term in purgatory , if having had the chance to try his arguments on other philosophers , Hegel was not unrepentant , he might agree that there was perhaps something in the alternative view : that each of the factors affecting historical development does have its own authenticity ; that they act upon and react to one another ; that from time to time this or that factor will take on a greater or lesser importance ; that of course — with a nod in the direction of Marx — at least since the neolithic age and the development of agriculture the mode of production has been a major factor ; and that the actions of particular men , Marx among them , have in fact been formative , changing not merely the degree of development of a kind already prescribed by a programme of social evolution , but the kind of development itself . |
| 5 | ‘ Miss Havisham asked me to send , ’ said Joe , as if trying to remember the exact words , ‘ her — best wishes , was it , Pip ? to Mrs J. Gargery … ‘ |
| 6 | as if trying to pinpoint the exact difference between them . |
| 7 | Her hands covered her mouth as if trying to hold the screams in . |
| 8 | Ryker knelt beside her , shook her , rubbed her arms as if trying to restore the circulation . |
| 9 | He gestures at the building behind him , as if trying to distract the animal 's attention . |
| 10 | Individuals and small parties join together in the open water outside the kelp beds , where they swim up and down as if trying to get the courage to attempt the last lap . |
| 11 | In both cases , the pupils will enlarge more than normal , as if trying to increase the input of information from the exciting stimuli . |
| 12 | Then he saw the hand , its fingers curled , as if trying to drag the sprawled body that was attached to it across the room . |