Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] if she [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Christie sat in the dock yesterday gently nodding as if she agreed with the judges ' decision to increase her sentence by 80 per cent .
2 Natalie just smiled as if she had n't heard .
3 His mother always looked as if she had dressed up for the occasion , which indeed she had .
4 Charlie was dead keen on Lilian doing him credit and she always did , always looked as if she 'd just stepped out of a bandbox .
5 This state she spontaneously pictured as if she had become small , about the size of a jar of marmalade ( this image appeared with a kind of authority ) and had put herself away in a small square recess in a wall , just large enough to hold her .
6 She was deathly pale , her face almost swollen as if she had spent her life in tears .
7 Just a , I find that she almost looks as if she 's been out in the sun and that it sort of looks like very strong sunlight on her face which is a shame really .
8 Unbelievable as it seemed to him , she almost looked as if she had been crying .
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