Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] if [pron] [verb] [not/n't] " in BNC.

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1 They all wait for him to go on , while appearing as if they do not care whether he goes on or not .
2 The film , a polished study of the early days of Lucky Luciano and his fellow hoodlums , is not so much The Godfather as The Godchild , as Christian Slater — looking as if he has n't started shaving yet — sets out with three cherubic buddies to conquer New York 's Lower East Side .
3 A scrawny boy , his hand wrapped up in a bloodstained rag , his clothes caked in mud , who looked sicker than some of her patients , and the pale , sullen girl who stood over by the teatrolley , shifting awkwardly from one foot to the other and looking as if she did n't have a brain in her head .
4 This machine should have run out of petrol many hours ago , ’ said the Doctor , sounding as if he did not want to be interrupted .
5 And er the question of the grants as well , I 'm opposed to the fact that they they 're going to if we do n't hurry up er , these two sites in Harlow will not , never be completed !
6 ‘ What happened was surely not his fault , ’ he said , continuing as if she had n't spoken .
7 His mouth was open and drooling and his tongue lolling between his lips and his eyes staring as if he did n't see her and everything about him red , and his hands bruised her skin where he tugged at her to move her where he wanted her , and he was making awful noises and pushing at her and pushing at her without the slightest gentleness almost as if he did n't realise it was her .
8 Silence hung on the air , and when he turned back he saw that Suragai was still watching as if he did not understand what had occurred .
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