Example sentences of "[prep] if [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wilde ( 1988 ) does accept that like physiological arousal feelings of subjective risk are not necessarily focal in the driver 's consciousness but he claims that there is continual level of subjective risk which the driver will become aware of if asked to report on it or if there are sudden changes in level . |
| 2 | as if weighted by dreams or water |
| 3 | as if to reassure the Danzigers , on the first day of the election campaign Hitler announced his intention to renegotiate the Anglo-German Air and Naval pacts . |
| 4 | They shepherded their charges with a cheerful , maternal competence as if to reassure them that the place might look like a prison but was as gently beneficent as a nursing home and that they were only there for their own good . |
| 5 | Laidlaw watched Graham until he had disappeared into the house then touched his holstered P220 automatic as if to reassure himself . |
| 6 | as if to reassure , Sophie added , ‘ I was in my room . |
| 7 | Even so , he lit the lamp on his desk , put a fresh cigarette in his holder and firmly affixed his monocle — all as if to reassure himself , as if to confirm both his identity and his authority : Colonel Eric R. S. Windsor , DSO , Colonel-in Chief of His Majesty 's 16th Infantry Division , currently stationed in Cambridge Barracks , Cork . |
| 8 | But then he stood , although his hand rested momentarily on my shoulder , as if to reassure me ; to say it did not matter . |
| 9 | She gripped my arms as she hugged me , as if to reassure herself I was n't going to disappear . |
| 10 | as if to reassure herself , she coldly analysed his features from under thick gold-brown eyelashes . |
| 11 | This elderly Czech émigré , an unsuccessful literary man , is the godfather of her husband 's boyfriend , Tomas , a sharp-looking little hustler with disconcerting ways ( he asks for a glass of water as if issuing a command ) . |
| 12 | Look straight ahead as if gazing at a place on a wall . |
| 13 | We shoot down into the rapid as if fired out of a cannon . |
| 14 | Clench the jaws , as if chewing hard , while pushing your tongue hard against the roof of your mouth . |
| 15 | He lit up a cigarette and moved his mouth around as he inhaled as if chewing the flavour of the smoke . |
| 16 | The sky was heavy with rain-filled clouds which pressed down on the dome of St Paul 's as if to deflate it , and the wharves and warehouses bordering the river cowered like black giants in the smoky gloom . |
| 17 | He twitched his shoulders as if shrugging the burden of Georgina on to the new arrival . |
| 18 | We turn up to funerals in everyday clothes , we refuse to let people send flowers so there is no opportunity for a communal expression of feeling , we are reluctant to take more than one day off work on the grounds that we 're better getting on with life as if weeping and mourning had no part in real life . |
| 19 | He imagined for a moment that he was still in short pants , until she turned to him and added , ‘ What I mean is , I would have still recognised you , ’ and as if to soften her first statement she added further , ‘ Of course , you 've grown much taller . |
| 20 | The Prince smiled , as if to soften his sartorial orders , then gestured at one of his Dutch aides . |
| 21 | Amsterdam rose and put his hand on his aunt 's shoulder as if to soften the blow he was about to deliver . |
| 22 | It is no more than the action of clashing their teeth together as if sinking them into the neck of the prey , in the specialized killing bite of the cat , but it has become a sound signal that many observers have commented on . |
| 23 | It must have taken Summerchild at least an extra minute in each direction ; as I recall it from those evenings fifteen years ago , he walked at a much more reflective pace , as if slowed by some inner weight . |
| 24 | And then , even while she was making valiant efforts to control herself , because for certain he was going to set about strangling her at any moment , after some seconds of looking at her as if staggered , suddenly , and to her amazement , he was seeing the funny side of it also — and he was laughing too ! |
| 25 | Then he stiffened as if sandbagged by a sudden recollection , gave a small yelp of terror and dashed into the gloom . |
| 26 | Filled with world-weariness and self-disgust , she towelled herself zealously , as if wishing to flay herself . |
| 27 | It seemed to Joan that the wedding-ring was burning her finger ; it caught the light , glistering brightly as if wishing to draw attention to the fact that it was embellishing an alien hand . |
| 28 | The coroner sat with lips pursed , staring down at the empty platters and dishes as if wishing the food he had devoured would magically reappear . |
| 29 | On one occasion he put his handprints on the painting as if beseeching the canvas to acknowledge the exiled body . |
| 30 | A translucent figure appeared before him , its three fingered hand outstretched as if to claim him for death . |