Example sentences of "if [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look straight ahead as if gazing at a place on a wall . |
| 2 | A woman , on the other hand , is used to moods and can often change them at will , as if stepping into a new outfit of clothes ( Robert A. Johnson , He — Understanding Masculine Psychology ) . |
| 3 | Boswell feared vermin ; Johnson anticipated the chill as if stepping into a cold bath , and tied a coloured handkerchief around his head . |
| 4 | On the top of the cart , as if resting on a bed of cushions , a young boy with breeches cut high above the knee lay fast asleep . |
| 5 | There was a narrow alley with dustbins in it at the bottom of the garden and , beyond that , the rude and unkempt backsides of a row of tenement houses with blind , curtained windows and washing ( long pants , vests , sheets , shirts ) limp in the windless air , strung out on high lines running from pulleys at far-up windows.Tin baths , like giant snails , stuck half-way up the walls as if resting in a trip to the top . |
| 6 | Mosley , as if capitulating to the iron logic of Fascism , confronted the question of race at a final Albert Hall rally on 28 October 1934 . |
| 7 | In the presence of a Norman magnate of such power and dignity this other Norman Robert , monastic though he was by choice , harked back to his own heredity , and blossomed as if preening before a mirror . |
| 8 | ‘ as if contending with the elements were not enough , ’ Matthau recalled , ‘ Barbra kept asking Gene whether he did n't think it would be better if I did this on this line , and that on the other , etc , etc- and I told her to stop directing the fucking picture … |
| 9 | Googol fiddled ostentatiously with the bandana round his brow as if toying with the idea of removing what masked his third eye , the warp-eye , a hostile glare from which could kill , as was widely known though seldom tested . |
| 10 | Peckle , Throgmorton and others joined us , though I was surprised to see Millet , the effeminate clerk , dressed as if returning from a visit to the city . |
| 11 | But if disposing of the waste generated by the Hinkley C reactor during its normal operation was a problem , what about the waste that would result from the eventual shutdown and dismantling at the end of its hoped-for forty years of operational life — the process described as ‘ decommissioning ’ ? |
| 12 | She clapped her hands together , as if dusting off the flour . |
| 13 | He pondered gloomily for a moment , then with an effort stretched himself as if climbing into an uncomfortable Sunday suit , and gave judgement . |
| 14 | Rather — for years — he had denied himself banality , as if disbelieving in the possibility of such physical transcendence . |
| 15 | Hence , if stripping of the anal mucosa with encoanal anastomosis is used in older patients , we think that it is more likely to lead to lower anal pressures and faecal leakage after operation than the technically simpler alternative of end to end anastomosis . |
| 16 | Inspector Blakelock half turned away from her and bent his head conspiratorially over the mouthpiece as if listening to a confidence . |
| 17 | She raises her eyes to the wonder of its beauty , sometimes tilting her head as if listening to the music echoing round her . |
| 18 | If a response to selection occurs , and if ageing in the original base population were attributable entirely to the presence of more or less age-specific deleterious mutations , then no immediate drop in survival or fertility would be expected to occur earlier in life . |
| 19 | John Harbour , as if looking into a mirror , leaned chummily against Babs Osborne and stared adoringly at the camera . |
| 20 | Clive searched his pockets , as if looking for a train ticket . |
| 21 | Its engine is missing badly and it 's circling round as if looking for a landing-place . |
| 22 | as if looking for a quarrel he went on to exaggerate the uncompromising nature of his position . |
| 23 | Mounce held the note up to the light , as if looking for a watermark . |
| 24 | The blackjack tail as if looking for a target , |
| 25 | Fortunately , Nevil was n't looking in his mirror , he had his head out of the driver 's window as if looking for a street name . |
| 26 | She examined her hands , white with chalk , as if looking for the source of some small pain , then gave up on that and began to dust herself down . |
| 27 | If Looking on the Bright Side ( 1932 ) is sometimes spoilt by the fact that the director , Basil Dean , seems to be under the impression he is making a sophisticated Hollywood musical , the scenes in the tenement block where Fields and her songwriter lover first meet are genuinely stirring . |
| 28 | The drawback is that both the sender and the recipient , if living outside the US , are at the mercy of prevailing exchange rates and foreign banks may charge a commission . |
| 29 | The drawback is that both the sender and the recipient , if living outside the US , are at the mercy of prevailing exchange rates and foreign banks may charge a commission . |
| 30 | The drawback is that both the sender and the recipient , if living outside the US , are at the mercy of prevailing exchange rates and foreign banks may charge a commission . |