Example sentences of "as if you [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You look as if you 're not haunted any longer ; there 's a strange quality of — of repose about you . |
| 2 | They come complete with full battle briefings , thought-provoking commentaries , films and realistic audio effects that make you feel as if you 're almost witnessing the battle scene . |
| 3 | it 's not as if you 're like selling them at cost and making a few pence because |
| 4 | Do you feel as if you 're really expressing something |
| 5 | Or you could try out the flight simulator techniques at ‘ Star Wars ’ where you feel as if you 're really taking part in a full scale intergalactic battle . |
| 6 | You look as if you 're about to cut someone 's heart out . ’ |
| 7 | You look as if you 're about to butcher a carcass . |
| 8 | They occupy the time that seems vacant , as if you were just hanging around doing nothing — but where in reality the well is filling up , where you are gathering together the material that will make up your narrative ; rearranging it , transforming it . |
| 9 | So when you first go down to the beach , no matter how brown your skin , you should treat it as if you were n't suntanned . |
| 10 | In the bottom of the pit there is a corresponding calm — it is the still centre of the spiral — and an odd sense of hollowness , as if you were about to drop into the deeps of the earth 's psyche ( and of your own ) like a stone down a mineshaft . |
| 11 | There you 'll be interviewed just as if you were actually going for the job . |
| 12 | My parents were the type of parents who always seemed faintly disappointed by whatever it was you did , as if you were constantly letting them down in small ways . |