Example sentences of "as if it [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shrug and look away , as if it does n't matter . |
| 2 | " You speak of the OTC market as if it does n't exist . |
| 3 | Where the statute looks as if it does not cover certain forms of conduct the courts have sometimes read the statute widely to convict the " manifestly guilty " . |
| 4 | And so far , with our results , it looks as if it does not seem to have a major impact on our patients , so we may be doing something that does n't er particularly help the patients , and this is very important since we spend a lot of time doing these sorts of er procedures in our patients . |
| 5 | Delaney stood with one foot on the hull of the craft that looked as if it owed more to space technology than to marine engineering . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , that , ’ said William , as if it had completely slipped his mind and he 'd have been quite happy talking about Satan and Hell and related matters for the rest of the afternoon . |
| 7 | He saw himself , as in a mirror , lifting the black cloth from her white flesh , felt , as if it had already happened , the softness of her body closing around him . |
| 8 | Susan felt the gesture as if it had barely lapsed — felt his hand on the nape of her neck , the gentle pull that turned her face up to his — and she cried out , almost as if she hoped to be heard . |
| 9 | Even her heart : she felt as if it had barely room to beat . |
| 10 | In either case , a court which revokes the order following a breach will be empowered to sentence the offender as if it had just convicted him of the original offence . |
| 11 | At last the restoration was completed and R5868 looked as if it had just come off the production line , a fine tribute to F/L Peaple and his team . |
| 12 | ‘ Do you want to come over for dinner sometime ? ’ said Jay , as if it had just occurred to her . |
| 13 | The feeling almost wiped out that terrible year as if it had n't happened at all . |
| 14 | He seemed surprised as if it had not occurred to him that literature might let him down in this way . |
| 15 | Charlie Singer appeared in front of the hotel and went towards the railway station , moving fast as if it had suddenly started to rain . |
| 16 | There was a spaciousness and simplicity of line that made a perfect foil for the few touches of vibrant colour that drew the eye , and yet the whole effect was completely uncontrived , as if it had all come together naturally . |
| 17 | Sue 's skin , thought Marion , Sue 's skin , so why do I feel as if I 'm the one , as if it all happened in my room , as if it had all happened to me ? |
| 18 | His dark hair was thinning on top , but he had bushy side whiskers as if it had all slipped downwards , and his chin was a dimpled mound seeming to support an ever-smiling mouth . |
| 19 | His face was smooth , almost feminine ; it looked as if it had never felt the touch of a razor . |
| 20 | The reporter , Mick Brown , followed this story with exemplary tact , or , put it another way , as if it had never struck him that he was talking to loonies . |
| 21 | She was a strange , skinny woman always dressed in dark clothes , and her face looked as if it had never seen the sun . |
| 22 | It had been seen nine years before at Kangaroo island and in 1840 came to us in thousands — running about the streets and Gardens and into the houses as if it had never seen man before . |
| 23 | But if the child is never born alive , things will remain as if it had never existed . |
| 24 | The effect of a decree of nullity , broadly speaking , is that the marriage is treated as if it had never existed . |
| 25 | For Jane , that slice of life evaporated as if it had never existed . |
| 26 | But after the settlement of the dispute Danzig-Polish co-operation lapsed as if it had never existed . |
| 27 | Somehow his mother could shut out the unpleasant from her mind as if it had never existed and she had shut out the Worm as successfully as she had shut out everything else . |
| 28 | The first is where it is set aside , in which case it is treated as if it had never existed . |
| 29 | The stonework covered it completely , as if it had never existed . |
| 30 | The smile was still on his face as if it had never left . |