Example sentences of "as [adv] [conj] if [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was not smiling now , but her look was full of a benevolent curiosity , and the soft island voice , with the lilt of the Gaelic moving through it like a gentle sea-swell , warmed me as palpably as if the sun had come into the dim and cluttered little shop . |
| 2 | Well , even then , not knowing Goreng and with two toes blown off as cleanly as if the surgeon 's knife had done the job , a mangled calf , and shrapnel resident two centimetres from the balls , I could recognise Martinho had played a masterly hand . |
| 3 | This morning , he would n't take no for an answer , and , after urging her to consider the idea and bringing her out here as confidently as if the whole thing were quite settled in his mind , he was now taking the ground from under her feet by playing devil 's advocate . |
| 4 | In exchange for most of a shipment of Hawk parts worth $6.5m , no hostages appeared ; and the hopelessness of the enterprise was laid out as clearly as if a hand had drawn it in the heavens . |
| 5 | When she opened them again , Fincara was there , as silently as if the blackness had merely thickened into shape . |
| 6 | Then she said as casually as if the previous conversation had been trivial small talk which was already half forgotten : ‘ What about next Sunday ? |
| 7 | I have forgotten the ins and outs of it : all I remember is that we argued as passionately as if the national survival was at stake . |