Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] as if [pron] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's as if he knows one bad performance will result in him being dropped by Graham . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's as if he 's been wiped off the face of the earth ! ’ |
| 3 | It 's as if he has heroically outlined himself , Lee thought , become the most significant member of the group . |
| 4 | It 's as if he has been drawn outside himself by indignation ; transcended himself ; literally risen into the air above his own head , so that he can see beyond the confines of his own life . |
| 5 | It 's as if he has just noticed an extra thumb . |
| 6 | ‘ Sometimes , it 's as if it takes a breathing space . ’ |
| 7 | It 's as if it 's always been . |
| 8 | It 's as if she taps into something greater , and acts with no reservation . |
| 9 | ‘ I told you Claudia would know , she always does ; it 's as if she lives in my head . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It is n't that Constance is naughty , or has tantrums , ’ she said to her cousin on the telephone , ‘ it 's as if she has just turned her back on me . |
| 11 | ‘ In some areas it is as if nothing has changed , and in other areas there are some quite bizarre decisions . ’ |
| 12 | It is as if he glimpses absolute Truth in and through particular instances of truth . |
| 13 | Campbell is not saying that Christ takes our sin upon himself but he identifies so closely with us that it is as if he makes our confession and is thus separated from the presence of God for us . |
| 14 | When a poet is nearing the creation of a new image , it is as if he stands with stout Cortes : |
| 15 | When the human voyager has freed himself from his fears and accomplished all his physiological needs , it is as if he has climbed out of a deep pit and reached the top of a high hill from where he sees a vast land stretching in every direction . |
| 16 | This perhaps represents Owen 's line of thought with him becoming more and more emotional to the middles of the verse , reaching climaxes and then , as it is as if he questions this freely running thought process , and he limits himself to so much emotion by the end of each verse . |
| 17 | There is the social acquaintance you do not feel comfortable being near , for it is as if she sucks something out of you and you come away feeling tired and dispirited . |
| 18 | It is as if she has to create an impervious beauty , a mask to conceal the painfully damaged body beneath the clothes , just as her lips are always closed in these photographs to conceal her decayed teeth . |
| 19 | In her decoration ‘ Lilith ’ ( Museum Boymans-van Beuningen , Rotterdam — watercolour sketch at the Tate Gallery ) it is as if she has taken one of these nudes and stood her against a tree , where , with arms wrapped around her head and one leg twisted into the other she writhes provocatively for the pleasure of the viewer . |
| 20 | It is as if she has opened herself up and not lied but she has still timed her ‘ coming out ’ . |
| 21 | It was as if he has caught an infection which was moving around all men but as yet lighting on few , something which would grow to cause fever where there had been force . |