Example sentences of "the [noun] as if they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , when Jessica had locked her car with all the others at the Moira roundabout — travel-sharing , she assumed , hardheaded Ulstermen saving on the petrol — Rory had walked up to her and kissed her lightly on the mouth as if they owned each other . |
| 2 | Lou spat out the words as if they had turned rancid in her mouth . |
| 3 | Instead , it is hospitalised in a museum , to be visited by the public , who pretend to relate to the work as if they recognised in it something of eternal value . |
| 4 | It might not have been a very long missive , but it brought Aubrey into the room as if they had not been apart for two whole years . |
| 5 | The transactions just referred to of the executors , his assignees , in relation to the lease bind him , in my judgment , in a question with the plaintiff as if they had been carried out by himself . |
| 6 | Many viewers were ‘ structuring their lives round it ’ and spoke of the characters as if they knew them well ( BBC , 1986 ) . |
| 7 | It might be thought reasonable to treat all cases of NSU so diagnosed when they initially present to the clinic as if they had a sexually transmitted disease and prescribe appropriate antibiotics , and , indeed , this is common practice in most clinics . |
| 8 | Diamonds and rare jewels were strewn across the floor as if they had been there for millennia . |
| 9 | Their houses , the tall , crumbling tenements with their cracked roof tiles and their creaking balconies huddle together round the church as if they want to shoulder it out of the way . |
| 10 | ‘ Mrs Asmoyah , ’ added Lisabeth politely , and she pointed to the flowers as if they explained everything . |
| 11 | Ipswich re-emerged five minutes after the end as if they had made certain of promotion . |
| 12 | Sticking straight up out of the sea as if they 'd grown there . |
| 13 | They were soon strolling with me round the house as if they 'd been expecting me for weeks . |