Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] if [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quick as a flash the doctor had cut the cord , passed the child to Matilda Jenkins , and was stitching away at Sarah as if his own life depended on it . |
| 2 | But , ‘ No , ’ Lubor replied , every bit as if her question was an everyday one . |
| 3 | Guy found his gaze moving slowly over Isabel as if her body held the answers to the questions in his mind . |
| 4 | All are announced at great speed as if their names were actually French . |
| 5 | Caroline tugged at the thin straps that held the red silk up over the generous curve of her breasts , then smoothed down the skirt as if her touch might somehow magically make it extend beyond her thighs . |
| 6 | She helped pack the hamper , avoiding his eyes as if her life depended on it . |
| 7 | The red light grated on Jaq 's eyes as if his own eyes were bloodshot , dazed with the blood of billions . |
| 8 | Callinicos is concerned to give weight to the proposition advanced by Franco Moretti in respect of Carl Schmitt , that it is not the task of Marxism to defend Modernism as if its devices were ‘ inherently subversive of the existing social order ’ ( p. 48 ) . |
| 9 | Her eyes fixed on his lips , drawn to the wide mouth as if its imprint was but a breath away , then with an effort she dragged her glance from them , half turning to avoid the intensity of his regard . |
| 10 | ‘ Mmmm , I wonder , ’ she replied , her gaze moving to the window as if her thoughts were miles away . |
| 11 | She looked almost demure , she thought disparagingly , glaring at her reflection as if her dilemma were all the mirror 's fault . |
| 12 | Adam looked ashen , sick , gripping Undry as if his life depended on it ; and Ruth knew he 'd almost killed her just then . |
| 13 | Pericles ' position is ( almost everywhere : see p. 126 on finance ) described by Thucydides as if his authority depended solely on charismatic qualities of leadership , but this can not have been the whole of it . |
| 14 | An attack may begin with the sensation as if their back were breaking , great shivering all over , a congestive headache and flushed face . |
| 15 | Mostly they have a dry hacking cough with morning expectoration , increasing to a most violent , gagging cough with vomiting and a sensation as if their head would burst or fly to pieces . |
| 16 | Well in the last 2 days Firmin and Antonio have been getting more and more hostile ( which is n't hard to do given how Charlie and Matt are currently feeling about one another ) and you could really sense the Indians getting involved , following it all from their part of the raft as if their lives depended on it — which in a way they did I suppose because we were arguing about whether they had the right to be baptised and have their souls saved or not . |
| 17 | Lady , I 've seen you scuttle from the room as if your butt were on fire simply because I 've walked in . ’ |
| 18 | She thumbed towards the wall as if her mother were just beyond and not at the far end of the corridor . |
| 19 | Suddenly she sat upright in bed as though pulled by strings , her brain clearing as if her head had been pushed into a bucket of water . |
| 20 | He held his head as if his brain was exploding . |
| 21 | The clarinet lay dusty on a shelf beside a Lamb 's Tales from Shakespeare , a sheep 's jaw from which she had meant to begin a study of anatomy , and a rough tangle of embroidery wools with which she had resolved to emulate Penelope , stitching and stitching as if her life and virtue depended upon it . |
| 22 | The Germans have had to accept some unpleasant facts such as French posession of nuclear weapons that are stationed on German frontiers as if their main purpose was to prevent a repeat of 1870 , 1914 , and 1940 . |
| 23 | I do n't know if you know what it is to work every day as if your life depended on it , to work until you feel you are going to bust a gut , until you want to cry or howl at yourself because your own body is so stubborn . |
| 24 | He grew large and plump and round-cheeked , but he was without kittenish ways as if his sad experience had robbed him prematurely of his youth , yet when he sat on Lyn 's lap in the evenings he gave himself up to a drowsy and contented purring . |
| 25 | ‘ You know why I really came here , ’ he said , and the words might well have been memorised because he stared up at her in rather an abstracted manner as if his mind were on something else . |
| 26 | If it had been a Peter Reid type , someone who battles and fights his way through every game as if his very life depended on it , I might have sat up and took a little bit more notice . |
| 27 | Then he just brushed the very tips of his fingers against hers and plunged the offending hand deep in his pocket as if his fist were on fire and the pocket was a bucket full of sand . |
| 28 | In nineteen eighty six treat people as if their labour is worth nothing you know those men have given their lives to the quarry industry and there 's no doubt that there is money to be made from slate at the moment and people are people that have the money to invest are making a lot of money okay they 're inves they 're risking the money but er people are risking their lives as well and giving their lives . |
| 29 | you go or the person who has been hypnotized so that in the most extreme cases , as we know , the hypnotized person lapses into a kind of trance , whether a kind of sleeping automaton with no ego and their decisions are now being made for them by the hypnotist who tells them what do to and they , they act as a kind of a , a puppet as if their ego ha has been turned off al al al altogether and clearly there 's a parallel here with what Freud 's going on in the group . |
| 30 | Franca , looking at him , felt the old familiar rush of feeling as if her body advanced and entered his body . |