Example sentences of "as if [pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Passing a street-light came to seem quite an event ; one watched their brave little sulphurous smudges receding with a feeling akin to despair , as if we might never find another . |
| 2 | It 's as if we ca n't leave the babies alone . |
| 3 | as if we would so dishonour our mother republic ! ’ |
| 4 | as if we would never have the time to say all the things we needed to say to each other . |
| 5 | This of course meant that we would not be able to carry out our tasks in and around Arad and indeed it looked as if we may not every get to Bucharest . |
| 6 | as if we 'd ever be allowed to forget that . |
| 7 | It 's as if they ca n't stop . |
| 8 | After all it 's not as if they ca n't score . |
| 9 | Manuel Caballeros took immense care with his fifteen-foot putt , stalking the line in both directions , conferring with his caddie , who had taken the pin out , staring at distant parts of the green as if they might unexpectedly become pregnant . |
| 10 | He states these facts slowly and carefully , as if they might somehow have slipped her mind . |
| 11 | They crept , developing rudimentary arms with nasty , elongated fingers as they went , groping across the floor towards the two intruders , as if they might not be able to see , but might be able to feel or smell their way to Caspar and Fenella . |
| 12 | They looked , from a distance , as if they might well be the remains of her first attempt at Islamic dress . |
| 13 | Both highly desirable , the one on the left especially ; both looked as if they would n't get on their backs for anything less than Edouard de Chavigny himself ; both had the kind of accent that made his toes curl , and made him wish he 'd opted for the more costly tailor . |
| 14 | Joanne and her mother lingered , gossiping , by their adjoining gates as if they would n't see each other again for half a year . |
| 15 | Mortgage rates increased dramatically and seemed as if they would never fall . |
| 16 | The puppets clung together as if they would never part . |
| 17 | Old feuds of race were diminishing , rivalries and prejudices were by degrees fading out.Such frequent and such intimate relations had thus been established between nations , that it seemed as if they must soon unite in one family , in one single federal state . |
| 18 | It was as if they should simply fade away when they got old like the soldiers they represented on stage . |
| 19 | Cradled within his arms , Laura drifted into a deep sleep , but , even as she dreamed , their bodies seemed to stir against one another , as if they could n't help but touch and make love again ; as if nothing could satisfy the desire that each had awakened in the other 's flesh . |
| 20 | For to the very last absurd minute , the combatants went on shooting at each other , as if they could not resist one last battle , as if the front line and the war had become inseparable from their own lives . |
| 21 | From their lofty height of existence , it was as if they could not even see him . |
| 22 | I might remember not to treat people as if they could only act in one way . |
| 23 | They clung to one another as if they could never be parted again . |
| 24 | On the other hand , if we ignore the ego and its functions in man and concentrate on his instincts as if they could totally account for his behaviour as they do in animals who lack an ego , we should fall into the alternative trap of failing to account for his culture at all except as the outcome of doubtful instinctual behaviour of an altruistic or civilized kind . |
| 25 | In flight , its little wings look as if they can barely hold it in the air . |
| 26 | At the moment , Fergie 's high-flyers look as if they can only give away the title if it was not for carelessness against Newcastle they would still have a 100% record . |
| 27 | We have spoken about old partners as if they will always have had a long life together and that is indeed the case in many of the pairs whom we currently encounter . |
| 28 | He talked about events in the Middle Ages as if they 'd happened-yesterday and been fully aired on the nine o'clock news . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'll be able to talk to her sooner or later , and it sounds as if she might actually be useful . |
| 30 | 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 . |