Example sentences of "[prep] if i [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel as if I am poised somewhere on the edge of a slope , and about to slide down when I am supposed to be climbing up . |
| 2 | ‘ Do I look as if I am joking , Miss Bishop ? ’ |
| 3 | I will not say that much of this debate has been irrelevant , because that sounds as if I am dismissing what has been said , which I am not , but it is irrelevant in the context of 1993 , because the advent of the new system will answer many of the problems that have been identified . |
| 4 | I feel as if I am watching something happen to someone else . ’ |
| 5 | Does it sound as if I am striving to avoid saying that the music is boring ? |
| 6 | But Calatin 's banqueting hall and the house in the forest had wavered and grown dim — ‘ as if I am seeing it through water , ’ thought Fergus — and there had been a great heaviness within him so that it was difficult to breathe . |
| 7 | ‘ Do I look as if I am jesting ? ’ |
| 8 | Then why do I always feel as if I am falling off the edge of a cliff ? |
| 9 | Neighbours and friends tell me that when I am racing you can hear the noise right down the street ; it is as if I am running in Dad 's front room ! |
| 10 | He said that it was like taking dictation , ‘ as if I was ghosting for another man ’ . |
| 11 | Other times , it is as if I was writing about someone else . |
| 12 | I looked as if I was reading the paper , but my mind was going over the events at Ingard House , and the curious discrepancy in the stories about Andrew Stavanger . |
| 13 | as if I was stealing a mug you know . |
| 14 | In order to do this I decided to work loosely with the oils as if I was using watercolours , thinning with genuine turpentine and allowing colours to bleed into one another . |
| 15 | At one point I felt as if I was drifting slowly across a huge , vivid moviescreen , so large I could n't see its edges . |
| 16 | It was like — almost as if I was trying to answer them , in my mind . |
| 17 | We began to discuss what should be done and how I would manage to support the children , and if , from time to time , I had the feeling that something was wrong , it was only in a distant , elusive way , as if I was listening to someone playing a piano on the other side of the road and hearing occasionally , but only occasionally , a wrong note . |
| 18 | He gave me an odd look as if I was telling strange stories . |
| 19 | ‘ I felt as if I was beginning to fade . ’ |
| 20 | It was fascinating , I felt as if I was learning about another world . |
| 21 | I felt as if I was taking part in history and the results were spectacular . |
| 22 | as if I was holding the thought in my hands , looking at it , turning it about . |
| 23 | Let me luv thee my own road , as if I was bringin' the money ‘ ome . |
| 24 | It was almost as if I was intended to see that they were not really supernatural ; and there was Conchis 's cryptic , doubt-sowing advice that it would be easier if I pretended to believe . |
| 25 | As we went out through the kitchen door , I dropped my talcum powder and things and stood to one side , towards the window-sill , as if I was looking to see where they 'd gone . |
| 26 | These , however , have to co-exist next to real lulus like , ‘ Being a mole I felt as if I was living on burrowed time . ’ |
| 27 | I felt as if I was screaming and not making any noise . |
| 28 | He put his hand on my forehead as if I was running a fever . |
| 29 | It was awful , because although I 'd worn the dress all day , and stuck up for myself , I did feel bad about it ; they made me feel bad , sort of guilty , as if I was showing off my body . |
| 30 | It made my life a bit unbearable for a while and made it look as if I was attacking Michael , which I was n't . ’ |