Example sentences of "as if [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 | He smokes at it as if he 's just a-digging ’ in his own garden ! ’ |
| 5 | He looks as if he 's always having dreams . |
| 6 | Sometimes it 's as if he 's constantly rejecting the first idea that comes into his mind , and plays the second instead . |
| 7 | ‘ It looks as if it 's just starting up , ’ he said as the sound of pop music drifted towards them . |