Example sentences of "as if i [modal v] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just want to phone Steve and find out what he and Maria Luisa were doing all night — as if I ca n't guess . ’ |
| 2 | It 's as if I ca n't feel any more . |
| 3 | Once again his arm , brown and corded , swept silencingly towards the sea and the mountains and the south , as if I might not have properly appreciated it . |
| 4 | I feel as if I 'll always have somewhere to come home to . |
| 5 | Sometimes I feel as if I can nae stand it |
| 6 | He got straight back on to the divan and lay with his eyes shut , as if I should n't have come and I felt I ought never to have come ( especially without telling C ) , and I felt as well that it really was a bit much , a pose . |
| 7 | It was as if I could n't act on my own behalf . |
| 8 | ‘ as if I could n't see for meself . |
| 9 | I felt as if I could not go on . |
| 10 | ‘ Do n't look at me that way , ’ she said , ‘ as if I 'd suddenly become senile . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It 's not as if I 'd ever touch on … ’ |