Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] if [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nervous tension of dodging and ducking about a sky crowded with equally dodging and ducking planes , some firing , some looking as if they might fire at any instant , some sheering wildly away to avoid a collision ; and all the time trying to grab a quick shot at a mere point of light : all this brought back the strain of combat , when you were pressed on by the excitement of chasing the enemy , pulled back by the horror of shooting a friend , and periodically shaken with fright by the thought that at any second you might be cut in two . |
| 2 | The entrance through the surrounding wall stood high and splendid , arched in the Spanish manner , and the vast wrought-iron gates stood open , ready to close behind them and looking as if they would . |
| 3 | ‘ But your representative completed the transaction yesterday , ’ Mr Palmer assured me , looking as if he would never understand what made me tick . |
| 4 | In the farthest corner , looking as if she would rather be anywhere else in the world at that moment , sat Dora . |
| 5 | When they returned to the hallway , the child was standing by the living-room door , looking as if she might be about to cry . |
| 6 | Sophia tried to see her sister as a spinster and it was not so very difficult — a rather eccentric spinster not even looking as if she might once have been ennobled by some tragic love affair . |
| 7 | Hannah Dooley was looking as if she might do something usefully hysterical at any moment . |
| 8 | On duty she strode about looking as if she could not wait to get off duty and chuck a discus . |
| 9 | And this year 's general trade was looking as if it might not equal last year 's , until Monday 21st December , when , with many companies and all the schools having closed , panic buying on an old-fashioned scale happened , ’ reported John Lauder . |
| 10 | Practising freekicks , with no ball , on no pretext other than looking as if you 'd have done a marvellous job if there had been a ball . |
| 11 | " O.K. " I yawned , sounding as if I could take it or leave it . |
| 12 | ’ Yes Del , ’ she said , sounding as if she 'd be putting if she had lips . |
| 13 | His knees were wobbling as if they might collapse under the strain of holding his body upright . |
| 14 | His pole was impaling her to the absolute limit , and she began panting as if she 'd just run the four-minute mile . |
| 15 | You know a miracle will not happen but you find yourself behaving as if it might : we canvassed , those weeks before the election , with a heady feeling that success was round the corner . |
| 16 | Marguerite was talking as if they would be here for ages . |
| 17 | We go on behaving and thinking as if there would never , never be enough . |
| 18 | Why on earth was her heart hammering as if she 'd run a marathon ? |
| 19 | ‘ We 've got this Unesco thing coming on — oh , here are the Fairfaxes , ’ he declared , as the door opened to admit a tall middle-aged man and an even taller woman , obviously husband and wife , who had grown to look like each other in a rather unfortunate way , their small heads and long stringy bodies seeming as if they must have combined the worst features of each . |
| 20 | She had an impression of being lifted up from the bed — she had cried out in agony , feeling as if she would break in half — and laid upon a stretcher . |
| 21 | That 's why I 'm feeling as if I ought to stay in tonight really . |