Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] as if it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The night before , these three had blended together as if it was the easiest thing in the world , forming a new , three-headed animal talking comfortably to itself through Francie 's hands and Aunt Margaret 's lips and fingers and Finn 's feet . |
| 2 | Benjamin was on the point of replying when we heard the clip-clop of horses ' hooves and saw Doctor Agrippa making his way slowly towards us ; his mount , a gentle cob , ambling along as if it was a balmy summer 's day . |
| 3 | If engaged in hand-to-hand fighting the unit will break if it fails the test and may be pursued just as if it had been broken in hand-to-hand combat . |
| 4 | What was at best a speculative investment six months ago by five of the six major accountancy bodies , the BBC and accountancy trainers BPP , looks now as if it could turn into a roaring success . |
| 5 | The other major point is that although the audit of a nationalized industry is set up , and therefore presumably carried out as if it were an audit of a PLC , this does not mean that it will always be so . |
| 6 | Thus the narrow strict sense of elite , though sometimes used misleadingly as if it had been demonstrated satisfactorily , is rarely applied consistently throughout an argument in modern elite theory . |
| 7 | We shall carry on as if it has not happened . |
| 8 | So Bill for instance is he to just carry on as if it 's ongoing |
| 9 | The parchment was illuminated : an Englishman stood waist-deep in an ocean of scalloped rills , drawing a galleon of far greater tonnage than any ship Kit had ever sailed in as if it were a child 's toy boat ; he was pulling it towards a pair of islands , like pease puddings , smoking from their rounded summits on the pretty dish of the sea , garnished with sea creatures : one had a spiralling tusk and frilly fins , another a crocodile 's saw-toothed snout . |
| 10 | What I figured was that EC ai n't playing like EC used to play any more , so I played exactly as if it was a garage band from Seattle ! |
| 11 | Frye is writing here as if it were possible to distinguish the interests of one self sharply from those of another , and as if , were the effects of male domination to be undone , it would not be too much of a problem for the self to know what its interests were . |
| 12 | His face was thin and emaciated , drawn together as if it spent each night in some kind of linen press . |
| 13 | The proposition that fax was invented by a Scot in the middle of the 19th century sounds rather as if it might come from the repertoire of E. L. Wisty , a companion piece to such wisdoms as " Did you know that Leonardo da Vinci invented the compact disc ? " |
| 14 | Charlie Singer appeared in front of the hotel and went towards the railway station , moving fast as if it had suddenly started to rain . |
| 15 | It sounds almost as if it will be too agonizing for them . |
| 16 | In other words , in those studies where children heard both more and less in the same trials or same sessions , and where there were more than two responses possible , they showed no evidence of treating less as if it meant more . |
| 17 | These studies gave rise to the view that children went through a stage of treating less as if it was synonymous with more . |
| 18 | The animals long ears are pinned back as if it was running , and a means of suspending the key is provided by a hole through the hound 's mouth . |
| 19 | Mr Culling said : ‘ It still seems now as if it the whole thing happened yesterday . |
| 20 | but what I find so interesting is because people talk nowadays as if it 's only recently women have had jobs erm |
| 21 | ’ As I read it we could not restrain abundant tears and I felt instinctively as if it were a gentle , loving hint to us to be prepared for what followed . ’ |
| 22 | Do n't go on as if it had happened , ’ he said . |
| 23 | They felt they 'd been made fools of … and the ring is some sort of family heirloom and his father went on as if it was all Rick 's fault that Angy had made off with it . ’ |
| 24 | After the release of the two Frenchmen , Hugo Young had written an article in the Guardian that we seized on as if it were a lifeline . |
| 25 | The village felt rather as if it were a hopeful ark floating in isolation while the rest of the world was covered over , hidden from sight by watery winter . |
| 26 | One of the legs just went down as if it was on quicksand . ’ |
| 27 | In a feeble effort at self-preservation , I put up one arm to ward off a blow , but the arm fell down as if it would have nothing to do with such an idea . |
| 28 | It had a sort of changing-room summer house , and a brick building that looked hopefully as if it might have something to do with heating the water . |
| 29 | He was wearing a disreputable pair of jeans that looked as though they 'd never seen an iron , and a grey shirt , the sleeves rolled back as if it were summer . |
| 30 | ‘ You do n't imagine I 'm going to allow him to come and go here as if it 's his own home , do you ? ’ |