Example sentences of "as if it be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It acts as if it is looking after all our interests in ways too subtle and refined for us to understand . |
| 2 | The furniture stands around listlessly , as if it is waiting to be sold . |
| 3 | It is as if it is walking through a minefield . |
| 4 | Does n't look as if it 's moving at all to me . |
| 5 | Mm , see one of the dangers of just reading the bible is that you have to be careful you do n't fall into the pitfall of just reading it when if you do then it 'll all look as if it 's pointing towards the only way out is heaven |
| 6 | as if it 's gon na pour out there is n't it ? |
| 7 | Graham says that if the set-up is a success — and it certainly looks as if it 's going to be — he may take on more charity tanks in the future . |
| 8 | But these days , if it looks as if it 's going to be nasty , I take the easy way out . |
| 9 | Does n't look as if it 's going to be dry to me . |
| 10 | It looks to me as if it 's going to blooming rain again . |
| 11 | Yes please , is the helicopter sounds as if it 's going to the hospital , oh yes , look there it is , ever so close , can you see it Tim ? |
| 12 | There 's actually a very different difficult problem with sexual harassment , which is that erm there are occasions when it looks as if it 's going to be difficult for a college not to go ahead , even when the victim has withdrawn her or his complaint . |
| 13 | She swayed , and the colour felt as if it was draining from her face . |
| 14 | The brain was throbbing rhythmically , looking as if it was trying to well up out of the hole in the scalp . |
| 15 | I never said that — Jess thought , the ground feeling as if it was weakening under her feet . |
| 16 | The fire looked as if it was laughing at her troubles . |
| 17 | It looked as if it was laughing at them . |
| 18 | Even if you are running Windows there is nothing stopping you from using your machine as if it was working under MS-DOS . |
| 19 | Now Kathy seems to me should be checked checking the assessor , just as if it was going over the telephone |
| 20 | This college seemed as if it was going to be the best thing that happened to me . |
| 21 | ‘ It made it seem as if it was going to be superficial . |
| 22 | It was more like the noise dogs make sometimes — a see-sawing musical phrase , as if it was talking to someone you could n't see . |
| 23 | Here as if it was gon na . |
| 24 | This means that food ‘ exported ’ ' to the Vatican ( from a Roman abattoir , say ) is treated as if it were going to a ‘ third country ’ . |
| 25 | Simon had n't inherited yet ; the house was entailed of course and as there was no direct male heir ( my being what I am ) it looked as if it were going to some cousin overseas , only later it became known that Mary had had a posthumous son : he 's still a minor — here 's another member of my family whom I have n't met , I seem to have an assortment . |
| 26 | So we share his horror as he observes in himself , experiences almost passively — as if it were happening to someone else — the emergence of the tempting desire to murder Duncan ( ‘ suggestion ’ still had the sense of diabolic temptation ) : There , with amazing speed , and as if parenthetically ( ‘ whose murder yet ’ ) we become privy to the secret that sets him apart from the others on stage , the goal to which all his energies will ultimately be directed . |
| 27 | It seemed as if it were coming from a long distance and he waited for a moment , and the moment went into a full minute , and then slowly he opened the door . |
| 28 | The supple gold of her swimsuit felt as if it were melting under the heat generating between them . |