Example sentences of "[prep] if he [be] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know if he starts throwing up or well you , you think he seems he looks as if he 's in pain or something . |
| 2 | His own voice sounded rather odd , as if he was under strain . |
| 3 | Colebrooke marched up and down as if he was on parade whilst Mistress Philippa leaned against the wall , looking sorrowfully down at Tower Green . |
| 4 | He raised the Browning automatic as if he was at target practice , levelled the sight at the thing 's one remaining monstrous yellow eye — and pulled the trigger . |
| 5 | Jesus , the man looked as if he was in mourning . |
| 6 | Marie had in her mind an image of the laughing man in the car : a big man , who looked sure of himself , as if he was in control of his life . |
| 7 | He began to rub his jaw as if he was in pain ; his normally pale face had turned white . |
| 8 | They faced each other , Harry standing with his hands on his hips , Sir Gregory forcing back his shoulders as if he were on parade and trying to reassure himself of his own rank and standing . |
| 9 | The lecture had kept her mind occupied all through breakfast , and had contained a great deal of sound advice on the best method of dealing with fitzAlan , which had not included embracing him as if he were in truth her husband . |
| 10 | She had no desire whatever to stay and become enmeshed in the affairs of Alain Lemarchand and his mother , but he had simply gathered her in imperiously as if he were in charge of her life . |
| 11 | The document states that Richard Walter Jenkins shall ‘ absolutely renounce and abandon the use of the surname of the parent and shall bear the surname of the adopter and shall be held out to the world and in all respects treated as if he were in fact the child of the adopter ’ . |