Example sentences of "[prep] if [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if summoned by that anger , Tom Carey rounded a bend in the path , rod in hand . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Rainbow , looking towards my mirror as if hoping for some kind of guidance , is pulled backwards through the kitchen door . |
| 4 | Across the street , beyond a wide stretch of frost-laced gravel , there was a huge triumphal arch on which were four horses driven by a goddess of peace , over whom , in turn , hung two flags , both enormous as if vying with each other and both striped red , orange and black , the far one with those stripes alone , but the near one bearing the wreath , hammer and dividers of the German Democratic Republic , and under it all , cutting the avenue in half , halting it with the abruptness of Finis at the end of a book , and behind a fragile metal fence , snow on its top giving it an odd , festive look , there was a drab grey wall made of concrete blocks . |
| 5 | Each laugh , observes Howard , looking chiefly at the laughter emerging from himself , is rounded and polished , as if cast in weathered bronze . |
| 6 | He stared down at her for a few seconds , almost as if searching for some clue hidden in her expression . |
| 7 | as if damned to perpetual motion — decay |
| 8 | The group sat quite still as if bound by some secret . |
| 9 | Sometimes , when I made a move towards the cottage door , as if to leave on some errand , he called me back . |
| 10 | And when it was over and their tears had dried , they lay like spoons , curved together as if made for each other , and slept . |
| 11 | as if struck by invisible lightning , she felt her whole body tense and prickle with reaction . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Usually he would choose the next direction without hesitation , but sometimes he would wait , head cocked , as if listening for far-off sounds . |
| 14 | When the man saw this , he began to walk more quickly , then to run , as if triggered by some vulnerability in Nicola that he had n't found before . |
| 15 | as if plunging from 160 feet with a bit of elastic tied to an ankle was n't frightening enough , the jumps took place in the dark [ hence no successful photography ! ] . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Two thoroughbred stallions panted heavily as if driven at some pace . |
| 18 | Anton though , as if waiting for this opening , Parker 's panic , caught him for his best bite yet , a chunk : with all of his teeth , his werewolf mouth , from high inside of a beefy thigh . |
| 19 | The smell of damp and rot seemed to waft from the doorway as if expelled from putrid lungs . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | as if seized with prophetic fire he raised his eyes to the ceiling , and said : |
| 22 | The people of Forth Worth clapped as if seized with divine ecstasy |
| 23 | Presently , as if seized by sudden revelation , Flavia put down her knife and fork . |
| 24 | There was a moment 's silence ; then Fand clasped her hands to her face , as if seized by more dismay than she could bear . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It was a strong baby , bedraggled and bloody , as if pulled from some ruin . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Soft lights glowed on the mountains as if reflected from stained glass . |
| 29 | They stopped their howling , eyes fixed on Corbett , and again , as if controlled by one mind , threw themselves against their iron cage , the leader of the pack standing on his hind legs and pounding his muzzle against the grille . |