Example sentences of "as if [pers pn] [am/are] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not as if we 're like bus drivers or air traffic controllers . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's as if we 're in the moon ? ’ |
| 3 | It 's not as if we 're near my rooms . |
| 4 | It is as if we are at home with God , for his presence and his friendship become a greater reality for us as we grow to know him better . |
| 5 | For some reason my voice is lowered , hushed as if we are in church . |
| 6 | it sounds as if they 're in the back garden or something ! |
| 7 | It also seems as if they are at last more prepared to listen to the needs of the local skaters and on top of this a local developer has pledged ten thousand pounds towards the new facility so the future do n't look so gloomy after all . |
| 8 | Our parliamentary group does not appear to be in touch with grassroots opinion — it 's as if they are on another planet . |
| 9 | It is two , opposed , experiential explanations — one in terms of ‘ the feeling of pain itself ’ , the other in terms of people looking , sounding , and so on , as if they are in pain ( ‘ pain-behaviour ’ ) . |
| 10 | Then if , if it looks as if they are in , you just go to the next one and look at that , you know what I mean ? |
| 11 | as if they are in a complex maze , users of hypermedia can quickly become disorientated . |
| 12 | I feel as if I 'm at the earth 's heart . |
| 13 | Just because I 'm a girl I can be brushed aside as if I 'm of no account . |
| 14 | They think my Yorkshire accent is amusing , and Nicola , my boss , tells friends that I 'm ‘ from the country ’ , which makes me feel as if I 'm from another planet . |
| 15 | as if I 'm from Jamaica or whatever . |
| 16 | I now feel as if I 'm in control and the intensity of the contraction seems to die away more quickly than the monitor suggests it should be . |
| 17 | It may make me sound as if I 'm in training for a Blue Peter badge , but it works . |
| 18 | Do I look as if I 'm in danger ? |
| 19 | I feel as if I 'm in a time war , I really do . |
| 20 | ‘ Peaks ’ is actually to give the wrong impression , anywhere else they would be no more than hills ; but on Amantani they give a commanding view of Lake Titicaca and make you feel as if you 're on top of the world . |
| 21 | ‘ I object to the way you 've dressed like someone from the pages of a Dickensian workhouse and turned up with your belongings in carrier bags as if you 're on your way to the laundromat . ’ |
| 22 | They look as if you 're on the street in cardboard boxes . |
| 23 | You signed up for tennis lessons ( out comes the shorty tennis skirt , a volley of wolf-whistles from the labourers outside , and off to the courts where the horrid male instructor drills you as if you 're in the Green Berets ) . |
| 24 | You 're expected to behave as if you 're in a soap opera these days . |
| 25 | wait wait a minute , look this is how you do it , do it as if you 're in the buggy you see , you put your head through there , put your , there now |
| 26 | unless he 's got five hundred in yo yo you feel as if you 're in a barn aircraft hanger . |
| 27 | Surely it makes sense to have this knowledge of what it feels like , almost as if you are on the stage of the London Palladium in front of a full house with the spotlights full on , as you have questions fired at you — rather than be totally unprepared and unrehearsed . |