Example sentences of "[prep] if [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Lord Chancellor 's Practice Direction of 17 March 1987 provides that clear photographic copies ( of all documents ) will be accepted as if printed or typed . |
| 32 | The fingers were clamped solid as if sewn into the material . |
| 33 | He does this by moving away from the shoal of fry and then thrashing about in the water as if injured . |
| 34 | The skylight in the ceiling looked as if covered by a dark purple cloth . |
| 35 | Even now I 'm struggling to stop myself going for a jaunt around the room though I know this will inevitably lead to me lying on my bed or sitting on the floor in a mesmerised , trancelike way and staring into nothingness as if stoned . |
| 36 | standing stiffly as if boxed by shadow : |
| 37 | The smallest of the British gulls , it lay dead in the snow , pale grey and white plumage , grey cheek patch , greenish bill , short black legs ; quite frozen and in near-perfect condition — as if stored in an open air deep-freeze . |
| 38 | Each phrase followed on from the next as if stored for an age and waiting to be spoken in just this way . |
| 39 | The advantage of the method of analysis suggested here is that these international influences are not treated as isolated and exogenous instances , as if operated by deus ex machina , but are explicable and connected within the context of the workings of the world economic system . |
| 40 | At that moment , emerging from the saloon below as if propelled from a circus cannon , there appeared a distinctly grotesque figure . |
| 41 | My jaw hurt , my teeth were locked in an instinctive bite , and when released they chattered as if propelled by clockwork . |
| 42 | The words came out as if propelled irresistibly from a well of compressed emotion . |
| 43 | He studied her for several seconds , as if baffled . |
| 44 | He was black , too , as if coated with a layer of paint . |
| 45 | He turned , looking at the child , seeing how the boy 's chest now rose and fell gently , as if soothed by his voice , then turned back , smiling , beginning to mop up the spill . |
| 46 | He was in black — a thick high-necked sweater and , she noticed when he got up and came round the side of the desk , a pair of black corduroys that moulded his thighs as if tailored specially for him , as indeed they probably had been . |
| 47 | I looked slowly in that direction , as if instructed . |
| 48 | They walked to the lake where there were two pairs of ducks , mallards with feathers as if painted in iridescent green , and from which a heron rose on gaunt wings , its legs dangling . |
| 49 | According to David Hume , Locke was not alone in thinking that visual perception involves something two-dimensional : ‘ It is commonly allowed by philosophers that all bodies which discover themselves to the eye appear as if painted on a plain surface . ’ |
| 50 | This triggers chemical changes in your body , which reacts as if threatened by a foreign substance . |
| 51 | Where it had covered Forster 's face , his neck , chin , mouth , nose and one cheek , the skin and lips had gone , as if etched away by acid . |
| 52 | The fixed duration , the stereotypy , of the growth phase , makes it possible for particular things to happen at particular times during embryonic development , as if governed by a strictly observed calendar . |
| 53 | My hand sprang away as if electrified . |
| 54 | All at once , I sat up as if electrified , for we had driven into a large corrugated iron compound , and there were British soldiers everywhere ! |
| 55 | According to his biographer , Henry Bordeaux , even when he landed he remained in a trance ‘ as if electrified by the fluid still passing through his frame ’ Though through so many dogfights he seemed to bear a charmed life , this kind of nervous impulsiveness seemed bound to lead to disaster . |
| 56 | Twist our arms and we 'll plump for his brilliantly-executed diatribe against the somewhat larger rock acts currently doing the rounds : ‘ Gim me something small and poisonous , with teeth , born out of the gutter , ’ oozed The Ig , eyes bulging as if strapped to the electric chair . |
| 57 | There were heads hanging from branches in these places , which gleamed as if oiled . |
| 58 | Every white hair seemed visible on the pink , painted skin , as if brushed in separately , and you could see the grainy texture of the nose . |
| 59 | Her face looked rough-hewn , as if carved from a cliff . |
| 60 | Behind them , as if carved in stone , were their two secretaries , Cosmas and Damien , who sat pulling their horses ' reins , eyes fixed intently on Mandeville . |