Example sentences of "[prep] if he [be] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like an unearthly cross between Paul McCartney , Gerry Sadowitz and someone you beat up every day at school , Louis is Kinky Machine 's trump card , illegally bad leather jacket cast aside to reveal bare chest within seconds , silly guitar played above the head on all-too-many occasions , halfway-house haircut shaken at the crowd as if he 's trying to violently throw off a wig . |
| 2 | I went to see my doctor and he wrote everything down and listened with his head on one side and a finger in his ear as if he was listening to folk music . |
| 3 | The little boy leaned his face to one side as if he was listening to some signal inaudible to mere mortals , and he whispered , ‘ I am going to destroy Malik . |
| 4 | At first he sounded distant , as if he was calling to her from the basement of a big house , but he came nearer very quickly and suddenly he was shouting in her ear . |
| 5 | He was staring at the floor , keeping very still as if he was trying to be part of the wall . |
| 6 | as if he was singing to someone he loved . |
| 7 | He stopped speaking and gazed hard at Corbett and then continued quietly , almost as if he was talking to himself . |
| 8 | He interrupted Michael as if he was talking to a little child . |
| 9 | Athelstan snorted with laughter and leaned forward , his arms crossed , as if he was talking to himself and had forgotten the coroner sitting beside him . |
| 10 | He was so extraordinarily quiet and self-possessed , it was almost as if he were chatting to us confidentially about it all instead of making an elaborate speech . |
| 11 | His tone had been matter-of-fact , as if he were reporting to a committee . |
| 12 | There seemed no stopping her and he felt as if he were listening to some of the most important information he had ever heard . |
| 13 | He shouted , so the doctor told Dexter , as if he were crying to someone a great distance away . |
| 14 | He stared at the table as if he were talking to himself . |
| 15 | ‘ No Villanuova has ever had a job , that 's why , ’ he replied as if he were talking to a child . |
| 16 | Golding 's voice sank to a murmur , as if he were talking to himself rather than Derek . |
| 17 | It was as if he were going to the edge again of something fresh and new . |
| 18 | His other neighbour 's child-bride kissed her boy hero each morning , in her floating web dressing gown , as if he were going to the Falklands for three months . |