Example sentences of "[adv] as if i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do it without premeditation , as naturally and wearily as if I did it every night . |
| 2 | ‘ The whole thing was a perfectly natural mistake , but , thanks to him , they went on as if I 'd just attempted to rob the Bank of England . |
| 3 | I have no compass to tell me what I am destined for ; and yet , when I look back , everything seems to fit as well together as if I 'd been following a benevolent daimon all along … |
| 4 | I 've been banned from the rest of the house — just as if I had some awful contagious disease ! ’ |
| 5 | I mean , it 's not as if I owned property there . |
| 6 | And it 's not as if I 've gone off it within myself . |
| 7 | It not as if I 've done anything wrong . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It 's not as if I done anything wrong . |
| 9 | It 's not as if I gave you much choice . |
| 10 | It is not as if I abandoned her . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It 's not as if I wanted to . |
| 12 | ‘ It was not as if I needed the money . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's not as if I do n't love Sam , because I do . |
| 14 | I do n't know why ; it 's not as if I do anything wrong . |
| 15 | ‘ It was was partly my own fault , ’ said Gookey , ‘ but it 's not as if I did n't attempt to register . |
| 16 | It 's not as if I have a sister or brother to worry about . |
| 17 | It 's not as if I have n't got any . |
| 18 | It 's not as if I worked for a large network news show . |
| 19 | I was in no mood to stop , and continued past as if I thought they wanted to film me from behind . |
| 20 | Bird noises faded up as if I had found another TV control . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'll take you upstairs to your room , ’ he said , raising me up as if I weighed nothing . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It is n't as if I ate much . |
| 24 | It is n't as if I do n't know the type . |
| 25 | It was almost as if I had received a blow to the heart . |
| 26 | I gave her the number and hung up feeling baulked of my escape , almost as if I 'd expected that the thing could be done now , tonight . |
| 27 | Then I commenced a tremulous search through its pages , almost as if I expected to find details of a timeslip between Geneva and where I now was . |
| 28 | ‘ After all , from what you told me before you went to Japan you intend to go on living a bachelor life , almost as if I do n't exist . ’ |
| 29 | Whatever the activity , I still see this as the old style … it 's teacher-led from that point of view in that they rely on me to start them off and I mean it 's almost as if I stand there with a gun and say ‘ Go ! ’ |
| 30 | Whenever I smiled , he smiled back happily as if I 'd given him something . |