Example sentences of "[prep] if [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Each laugh , observes Howard , looking chiefly at the laughter emerging from himself , is rounded and polished , as if cast in weathered bronze . |
| 3 | as if damned to perpetual motion — decay |
| 4 | as if struck by invisible lightning , she felt her whole body tense and prickle with reaction . |
| 5 | You waited outside in the street for up to two hours , and then , when you got to the box office , the passes were heaped in no known order , and Tory office girls scrabbled through piles of them as if digging for hidden bones . |
| 6 | Usually he would choose the next direction without hesitation , but sometimes he would wait , head cocked , as if listening for far-off sounds . |
| 7 | Angled away from the path of the hurricane , the concrete tube had become a giant organ pipe across the mouth of which the hurricane moaned and howled as if driven into enraged dementia by their evasion of its savagery . |
| 8 | The smell of damp and rot seemed to waft from the doorway as if expelled from putrid lungs . |
| 9 | But my bit had yet to come ; I had no idea if we had sustained damage to the undercarriage , although we had three greens burning bright , I motored in as if to land on new-laid eggs ; all the crew , including Jock the engineer , were at crash stations and we landed " soft as a mouse 's instep " , as Spike used to say . |
| 10 | as if seized with prophetic fire he raised his eyes to the ceiling , and said : |
| 11 | The people of Forth Worth clapped as if seized with divine ecstasy |
| 12 | Presently , as if seized by sudden revelation , Flavia put down her knife and fork . |
| 13 | Its eyes can discern very small intervals of time ( it can respond to a falling hand in less than one hundredth of a second ) , and our clumsy attempts to kill it must appear ponderously slow , as if filmed in slow motion . |
| 14 | Likewise , a path of sand and stones leading up to a triptich centred on a long industrial corridor with female figures int he images either side battling as if caught within transparent plastic , their head hidden behind their arms , is marked by a continuous figure-of-eight swirl on the sand . |
| 15 | Soft lights glowed on the mountains as if reflected from stained glass . |