Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] if he [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone who did n't know him would turn up their nose , looking down on him , but Clary would only laugh as if he enjoyed it . |
| 2 | I waited , but he had stopped as if he thought he had said it all . |
| 3 | If he publishes untrue defamatory matter recklessly , without considering or caring whether it be true or not , he is in this , as in other branches of the law , treated as if he knew it to be false . |
| 4 | Even Gerard , whom she probably suspected the least , looked as if he had something to hide . |
| 5 | ‘ It has failed , ’ he said , then suddenly looked as if he wished he had bitten his tongue . |
| 6 | He looked down at her , and for a moment looked as if he regretted his actions . |
| 7 | ‘ Looks as if he took it off . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , it looks as if he did what he was told after all . |
| 9 | Certainly looks as if he did I mean he did n't give any other indication . |
| 10 | The poor industrialist had said that the minimum wage would put him out of business , only to be told by the noble academic that it would not need to if he ran his company properly . |
| 11 | But Patrick was acting as if he lived her kind of life , which indeed he had once . |
| 12 | He did not look as if he meant it . |
| 13 | ‘ He does n't look as if he likes us very much . ’ |
| 14 | I make it sound as if he finds it easy … . |
| 15 | If MacArthur had acted as if he thought he was Napoleon , John Foster Dulles , a bleak , remote and charmless human being , acted as if he was , at least , another St Paul . |
| 16 | He had shown interest in her work and talked as if he took it seriously . |
| 17 | ‘ Good Lord , he wrote books too : Foreign Debt : A Paupr 's Promise , not exactly a snappy title but it sounds as if he saw something the New York banks did n't and The Credit of Faith . ’ |
| 18 | The performances are conducted by the Brazilian Roberto Duarte ; it sounds as if he knows his jungle , too , for his interpretations are full of life , pointed rhythms , striding basses ( Villa-lobos has in common with Havergal Brian that his textures often inhabit the bottom end of the orchestra , with free and easymoving bass lines ) . |
| 19 | He 'd spoken as if he thought she was in the habit of collecting fiancés and engagement-rings . |
| 20 | His gaze was very direct , but somehow managed to encompass her whole body , make her feel as if he saw her semi-naked again , vulnerable and furious , the way he had last night … |
| 21 | I felt as if he felt I was a stranger . |
| 22 | He says he felt as if he knew her from a previous life — of course he did . |
| 23 | He felt as if he needed it . |
| 24 | The boy laughed as if he knew something Gina did not , and his teeth gleamed white in the dark hallway . |
| 25 | His eyes danced as if he guessed what she really had thought . |
| 26 | Sheridan looked as if he thought he was slumming . |
| 27 | He looked as if he thought I was deliberately sabotaging his modern dress Paul et Virginie . |
| 28 | She even had to struggle to answer him and he looked as if he knew it . |
| 29 | Bill looked as if he had something else to say . |
| 30 | The last three words were uttered under his breath and he looked as if he hated her , she saw , made fully aware of his resentment . |