Example sentences of "as [subord] [pron] is [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's as if she is away staying somewhere , and we are waiting for her to come back , we can not do anything until she returns . |
| 2 | If you put someone on a second floor balcony , for instance , to deliver an address , it looks as if he is simply haranguing his listeners . |
| 3 | When Disllokey nods to me this morning it is with a distant seriousness , as if he is already bracing himself to lose his identity in the harshly impersonal world across the water . |
| 4 | But he always leaves it as if he is n't expecting to come back in the morning . " |
| 5 | After about five minutes you may need to change the blotters but , eventually , when it looks as if it is not going to curl , you can remove the weight and let it air dry . |
| 6 | Though at any given amount it looks as if it is n't going anywhere , it 's always on the move , lumbering from crisis to crisis . |