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Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [prep] if [pron] " in BNC.

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1	She 'd snatched them away as if they were in danger , and afterwards burst into Quentin 's study to have her scene .
2	Its not as if everything 's done for you here .
3	The front of the hurricane tore at the lower flanks of the mountains , rending great trees from the rain forest and tossing them aside as if they were little more than sticks .
4	Cabrera Infante , among others , repeatedly draws attention to his role as author , while the narrator of Alfredo Bryce Echenique 's A World for Julius not only maintains a running dialogue with the reader , but also involves himself with his characters , putting himself in their shoes , addressing them directly as if they were there alongside him and , like a supporter at a sporting event , siding with some against others .
5	It looks to me more as if he wanted them to push off and abandon him .
6	Students should fill out applications forms , visit the work place for interview and experience the interview itself just as if there were a real job .
7	I sha n't be able to treat you now as if you were my foster sister , Jenny .
8	He had taken over her affairs again , picked them up as if he had never been away , and she could do nothing about it unless she began to create a great fuss .
9	She made a gesture with a graceful hand that shut me up as if it had turned a tap .
10	‘ I 'll take you upstairs to your room , ’ he said , raising me up as if I weighed nothing .
11	They then hauled me up as if I were injured .
12	I sat there silent for a moment while he went on looking at me sympathetically as if I 'd been telling him a hard-luck story .
13	In the words of one user , ‘ they were giving them out as if they were going out of style ’ .
14	He felt the moistness , felt the narrow aperture , then slowly , her eyes never leaving his , she lowered herself down as if she were impaling herself on his flesh .
15	It , it 's a case of what she 's letting herself in for if we strike this out .
16	I let her share my house because she could only afford a tiny flat of her own , and she bosses me around as if she 's the one with the money .
17	Urian cut him down as if he were a child .
18	I pulled her to the side where Otley dragged her up the bank and began to dust her down as if she were not wet but dirty .
19	‘ I would n't get any ideas about running if I were you , ’ he said , looking her over as if he were contemplating buying .
20	Jenna began awkwardly , and he suddenly gave a shout of laughter , vaulting the fence and then reaching to lift her over as if she weighed nothing at all .
21	He sought her out with his hands but she pushed him away as if he would hurt her and no reassurance satisfied her .
22	" Oh , David , " she said pushing him away as if he were a small boy , which indeed he seemed .
23	He was breaking her on his wheel of fire , forcing her with him to a high-point of surrender , then casting her away as if her touch were a contamination .
24	Her pride had taken a hell of a beating at his hands because he was treating her exactly as if she were a sometimes tiresome younger sister .
25	FitzAlan turned on her , flinging her off as if she carried the plague .
26	He stopped in front of her , and nodded , in salute.Then , addressing her formally as if she were a grown woman , he asked to accompany her .
27	Preston stumbled out of bed and tried to give her a hug , but she fought him off as if it was an attack .
28	Picking her up as if she were a doll , he placed her on to unsteady feet .
29	Some reason why he was watching her cautiously as if she would erupt with anger .
30	For the present , in the daytime , he was abruptly fed up with the lot : himself , his insufficiency , the toll that his financial state seemed to be taking of his wife , and the colossally polite head of his stepson , hanging over him now as if it had a miniature keg of brandy around its neck .