Example sentences of "as if [pron] [adv] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Events in our own lives take on a pattern , as if we really were walking with God in our midst , guided continually by his presence . |
| 2 | She had fur-backed gloves and high brown-polished boots , not shoes but boots , and from what she could see of them they looked serviceable , as if they really were worn for walking . |
| 3 | The way it looks now as if somebody else is getting the material that was the lumps maybe that 's going to er what 's his name Technology and we 're getting the crap , we 're getting dust . |
| 4 | She saw her mother 's face draining as if she too were bleeding to death , heard his panting voice . |
| 5 | She stood still for a moment and looked up and down the street ; it seemed to shine ; the light the sun had poured onto the packed dirt of the road glowed back pewter under the stars ; there was no longer any moon , it had set earlier that night , and the dimensions of the scene had expanded , creating a vacancy which made Rosa feel her pulse quicken , as if she too were growing , becoming less stubby , less compact , stretching upwards and turning silvery herself like the leaf of an olive when the breeze lifts it and shows its metallic underside . |
| 6 | Roman sounded as if he too was battling for restraint , as well as controlling a degree of amusement , which made her fists clench in despair . |
| 7 | Hua paused , frowning , as if he too were troubled by something . |
| 8 | I found myself formalizing my speech , as if I too was pretending to be in a drawing-room of forty years before . |