Example sentences of "[det] [prep] if [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Men spoke of that as if it was a heroic thing , but it was Thorkel Fóstri , he found , who had done the actual killing , and his father would n't speak about it at all . |
| 2 | And now murder has been done , and you are as guilty of that as if you had struck the blow yourself ! ’ |
| 3 | Next thing they know , all hell breaks loose upstairs : they find their best brass candlesticks snapped in half as if they were toothpicks , and the pot where their dinner is cooking on the hearth fills up with ashes . |
| 4 | She closed her eyes as we did this as if she could not bear the spectacle of herself , a helpless , groaning hulk , being rolled about the bed . |
| 5 | For example , an adult may focus on a non-social action , such as tongue-poking or arm-waving , and interpret this as if it were , in fact , performed as an expression of some kind of social intention . |
| 6 | He said this as if it were obvious , as if he were explaining something self-evident to a small child . |
| 7 | He knew that Grainne was gentle and strong and sensitive ; he knew this as if it was something he had been born knowing ; even so , he found himself remembering that the Wolfline were said to have old enchantments in their blood , and that the old enchantments were tinged with the dark sinister magic of the first sorcerers , and that the descendants of those long-ago Wolfkings could still spin their own bewitchments and weave their own spells . |
| 8 | Yet , as the Cambridge evacuation survey commented wryly , hosts presented this as if it were ‘ an entirely unknown phenomenon in the past , and that evacuation produced a Niagara all over English and Scottish country beds ’ . |
| 9 | Boy watched all of this as if he was seeing fragments of one , continuous and baffling programme . |
| 10 | He did not say this as if he was asking Caspar as if six Humans might be possible or even negotiable . |
| 11 | He had said this as if he was doing us all a big favour . |
| 12 | ‘ You are treating this as if I have accused you of some crime . |
| 13 | They clung to one another as if they could never be parted again . |
| 14 | The entire text and formatting of one document can be inserted into another as if it were a block of text being inserted from elsewhere in the same document ( see Task 12 ) . |
| 15 | We see it in its most obvious form in the interactions between species when one species manages to control the behaviour of another as if it were a puppet . |
| 16 | You pass the chosen card and then finger another as if you feel it is going to be the right one and then say ‘ How much do you bet me that the next card I turn over is the chosen one ? ’ |
| 17 | So every pitchfork used to come out er one after another as if you had numbers on them you know . |
| 18 | First , we should not necessarily measure different kinds of information media against one another as if there was a competition taking place to find the most powerful way of communicating with people . |
| 19 | Keep a light moisturiser in your hand luggage too , and put some on if your skin starts to feel tight . |
| 20 | Yeah , what would multiply twelve and a half by if you wanted |
| 21 | If sociobiologists have tended sometimes to describe higher societies ( such as man 's ) too much as if they were simpler ones , some entomologists have been guilty of the reverse . |
| 22 | The Luttrell Psalter of 1338 illustrates a watermill complete with eel traps which look very much as if they have been made out of pliant willow stems . |
| 23 | After the event it looks very much as if his campaigns overstrained the resources of his empire and made it impossible to hold together , but at the time he was seen as the greatest of conquerors . |
| 24 | It felt too much as if she was shunting him off for her own convenience , even though she knew that it was the only sane and sensible thing to do . |
| 25 | If I went to Bristol it looked very much as if I would have to go without my prop . |
| 26 | It pays out three times as much as if I check out overseas . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ It sounds very much as if you were the one who was smitten , ’ Cora-Beth laughed . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , it looks very much as if he was able to help young Ben out a bit : probably by employing him as a commercial traveller in his own drapery business . |
| 29 | And it looks very much as if he will not just be his mother 's champion — but also Britain 's , and maybe even the world 's . |
| 30 | particularly erm , and one of things that I did find in Gaugin 's painting of Von Gogh was that erm , er , erm , depression really , I , I could see it there and the des desolation very much as if he was looking in on somebody who was in that position er , although at the time I do n't thing Gaugin and , er Von Gogh himself knew it |