Example sentences of "[prep] if [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wilde ( 1988 ) does accept that like physiological arousal feelings of subjective risk are not necessarily focal in the driver 's consciousness but he claims that there is continual level of subjective risk which the driver will become aware of if asked to report on it or if there are sudden changes in level . |
| 2 | as if weighted by dreams or water |
| 3 | We shoot down into the rapid as if fired out of a cannon . |
| 4 | It must have taken Summerchild at least an extra minute in each direction ; as I recall it from those evenings fifteen years ago , he walked at a much more reflective pace , as if slowed by some inner weight . |
| 5 | And then , even while she was making valiant efforts to control herself , because for certain he was going to set about strangling her at any moment , after some seconds of looking at her as if staggered , suddenly , and to her amazement , he was seeing the funny side of it also — and he was laughing too ! |
| 6 | Then he stiffened as if sandbagged by a sudden recollection , gave a small yelp of terror and dashed into the gloom . |
| 7 | Suddenly then though her attention was taken by a red squirrel which darted from nowhere and , effortlessly it seemed , bounced over the grass and then , as if jerked up on a string , shot up a tree . |
| 8 | Well , we shall seem to back off , as if discovered , but in reality we shall continue with our scheme . |
| 9 | So it has been held that a provision in a statute that regulations made under the statute will take effect as if enacted in the statute ( that is , they will be unchallengeable as if they were made by Parliament ) does not prevent the courts holding the regulation to be ultra vires . |
| 10 | as if summoned by that anger , Tom Carey rounded a bend in the path , rod in hand . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , like lemmings who have smelt the sea , the noble lords streamed out of their chamber in a body to appear , as if summoned by telepathy , when Dungannon 's speech drew to its close . |
| 12 | as if summoned by the music , a pang assaulted her heart . |
| 13 | It floats above us , gleaming in the darkness as if supported on a cloud of talk and booze while the people below swarm and chat and roar Andy on ; the champagne — already dripping down off the edges of the table onto the temporary matting beneath from spillages — is almost overflowing the second-last level of glasses . |
| 14 | They went to big hotels as if determined never again to experience anything like this house wedding in all their mortal lives . |
| 15 | Arsenal started the 1932–3 season as if determined to erase the unhappy memories of the previous spring . |
| 16 | as if determined to seize the initiative , Natasha said as soon as the maid had gone : ‘ I was shocked to hear of Sam 's abduction . |
| 17 | Davide caught his start when she leant over to give him a clean plate , how he set his chair straight and then , after a falter , flowed on , hammering the air with his clenched hands as he made his points , as if determined not to notice her . |
| 18 | Then he stroked her lightly , soothingly , as if determined not to make any sudden movements that would startle her . |
| 19 | However the gem is surely the Third Ballade with the opening pages played as if improvised on the spot , the figuration commencing at 3′34″ foaming and cascading with a freedom and liberality unknown to most players . |
| 20 | She switched on the electric fire , the room was freezing as if hung with icicles . |
| 21 | Limeking went down as if shot , and his rider Pat Buckley desperately tried to get him to his feet as the horse , flanks heaving , lay in a mess of thorn and fir and mud . |
| 22 | Thus the illustration contributes nothing to the text , which runs ‘ Edward [ actually Edgar ! ] lightly sprung aside and avoided the cut aimed at him , and then delivered a blow with all his force just in front of the ear , and the man dropped again as if shot . ’ |
| 23 | At five to seven she decided that her long gold hair needed another combing — and jumped up from the dressing-table as if shot when a minute later the phone in her room rang and the receptionist told her that a car had come for her . |
| 24 | But as if fixed to a wall there . |
| 25 | Small and forlorn , as if exorcised . |
| 26 | It has been noted that on occasions the cremated bones are found in the urns in a small cluster as if placed there in a small bag . |
| 27 | He looked round the little nursery with a puzzled frown , as if disconcerted not to find a chair . |
| 28 | In one of a series of flashy special effects that often intrude rather than enhance the action , Streep 's upper and nether regions instantaneously tighten as if bolted into an invisible vice . |
| 29 | As his hand closed on the rubber border , the man appeared to steady , staring fixedly as if fascinated by the spectacle . |
| 30 | Mr Hobbs gazed at me as if fascinated . |