Example sentences of "[adj] as if they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter Naulls and he , searching for the hole into the mine , had got as suntanned as if they had been on the kind of holiday they never had , on the beaches of Spain or Italy . |
| 2 | And the buildings looked as derelict as if they had all been lifted by some force and dropped again . |
| 3 | It was as simple as if they 'd asked him if he knew a good plumber . |
| 4 | These appear to be the valid wordings for trusts which are in most common use : ‘ I request ’ , ‘ I ask ’ , ‘ I wish ’ , and ‘ I entrust ’ , which are individually just as effective as if they were all used together . |
| 5 | They were talking rationally now , as adults , just as she had asked , but underneath the façade of civilised behaviour her heart was still doing funny things , and the electricity between them was as powerful as if they had been making love . |
| 6 | Housing estates are the modern monument of municipalism , more typically than the new civic centres and town halls , and yet they often look improvised or makeshift , as temporary as if they were plains of prefabs . |
| 7 | Customers clamour at the counter as thick as if they were handing out free tickets to Dublin . |
| 8 | The emotions of like and dislike are just as broad as if they had arisen from a total survey of the car . |