Example sentences of "the [noun] as if [pron] did " in BNC.

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1 Your treating the question as if it did n't exist is no help to you , no one ever got away by playing the ostrich . ’
2 But you ca n't wipe out the past as if it did n't exist , Ruth thought .
3 Gran had noticed it three evenings ago , when they were getting the breakfast things ready , and had pushed it behind one of the geraniums as if she did n't like the sight of it .
4 He held the gun as if he did n't know what it was , and looked at her .
5 Nails spun the mini through the traffic , heading out of town , flicking up and down through the gears as if he did it every day .
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