Example sentences of "if [pron] [adv] [verb] be [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | as if nothing else had been said , he added : ‘ I know he 's unbalanced . |
2 | She had a way of looking slightly obliquely at me , as if she knew something I did not — not anything to do with the role she was playing , but about life in general ; as if she too had been taking lessons from the stone head . |
3 | Those deemed to have ‘ immigrant tendencies ’ ( the phrase used by the Chinese officials ) such as single people' or those married but without children or people with close relatives already settled abroad were simply refused passports even if everything else had been arranged . |
4 | Flora sat in the kitchen , laboriously practising chain stitch on a rag torn from an old shirt of Peter 's , and Anna , who was in charge of the cleaning-rota , went off to the church to see if it actually had been cleaned . |
5 | He let her go as if he too had been dragged down by past memories . |