Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] if [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was at best a speculative investment six months ago by five of the six major accountancy bodies , the BBC and accountancy trainers BPP , looks now as if it could turn into a roaring success . |
| 2 | Her hair was messed up as if she 'd come straight from bed , and her cheeks despite the coolness of the day were flushed as if she 'd recently made love . |
| 3 | It seemed almost as if she would have to side with Ianthe against the anthropologists , and this was not at all what she had intended . |
| 4 | But then he se he seemed then as if he 'd think twice before he 'd do anything when he used to come in you know I er I said to him I said look we used to call him in them days you know , now what did you that for ? |
| 5 | The proposition that fax was invented by a Scot in the middle of the 19th century sounds rather as if it might come from the repertoire of E. L. Wisty , a companion piece to such wisdoms as " Did you know that Leonardo da Vinci invented the compact disc ? " |
| 6 | It sounds almost as if it will be too agonizing for them . |
| 7 | Nor did Gillian , who talked just as if she 'd only just run to the signpost and back . |
| 8 | I feel really as if I ought to start flying through this awful mess ! |
| 9 | The puppets clung together as if they would never part . |
| 10 | In a feeble effort at self-preservation , I put up one arm to ward off a blow , but the arm fell down as if it would have nothing to do with such an idea . |
| 11 | He swept his hat from the dresser and crushed it on his head and went outside as if he might break down the doors in his way . |
| 12 | It had a sort of changing-room summer house , and a brick building that looked hopefully as if it might have something to do with heating the water . |
| 13 | [ I was ] so oppressed by a sense of sin that I felt almost as if I should die ! |
| 14 | With eyes fixed on me as if I was hypnotisin' him , he takes the papermate out of the tray and moves away as if I might bite . |
| 15 | She spoke almost as if she could read his mind . |
| 16 | Table 22 of Appendix 1 shows that when people have recently bought a major item for cash rather than credit , half did so either because they never use credit or because they prefer not to if they can avoid it . |
| 17 | It 's a trick you fall back on if you ca n't really do any original thinking — you devise a new research procedure to ‘ confirm ’ an already established theory . |
| 18 | He behaves exactly as if I ought to be ashamed . |
| 19 | In spite of the clammy heat , shoppers began to hurry , but the rain which fell so readily when rainy days preceded it , now , after a fortnight 's drought , held off as if it could only be squeezed out as a result of some acute and agonising pressure . |