Example sentences of "as if i " in BNC.
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| 1 | To me this is odd as if I were the president of South Korea I would have imprisoned Kim Hyun-hui and released Im Su Kyong as to me Kim Hyun-hui committed the more serious crime . |
| 2 | as if I needed any incentive . |
| 3 | as if I was holding the thought in my hands , looking at it , turning it about . |
| 4 | This year it looks as if I will have even more . |
| 5 | I went out and slammed the door behind me , turning the key in the lock as if I wanted to safeguard the proof of the crime and its only witnesses , repeating the same English phrase , over and over again , ‘ Just you wait and see . ’ |
| 6 | I told him and it was as if I 'd opened Heaven 's door . |
| 7 | I had to go back to the room , as if I needed to tell the place where I lived of my feeling . |
| 8 | One day without wearing work clothes , it 's as if I lack something . |
| 9 | I look as if I 've made an about-turn but in terms of simple logistics it 's getting itself out of all proportion . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It was as if I had a vast chip on my shoulder . |
| 11 | It was as if I did n't even exist . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It was heart-breaking — she looked so frail , I felt as if I 'd almost lost her , ’ says her mum . |
| 13 | I feel exactly as if I were having a very prolonged dream but every time I come out of it I 'm so tired I fall back into it again . |
| 14 | She really talked as if I were a woman friend of her own age , her confidante . |
| 15 | This sounds as if I were either sick of it myself or else trying to make you sick of it ; but neither is the case . |
| 16 | The result of this ineptitude was that I was rumbled as a single parent within days , if not hours , and subsequently approached as if I were a fatal poison masquerading as a person . |
| 17 | Maybe this is why I am treated as if I 've polluted the town 's water . |
| 18 | He settled down again to work ( ‘ lessons and literature ’ ) , with some hours spent at Wimbledon with Arthur Hardy ‘ in the warmth and strange visible light of the late afternoon ’ , and enjoyed the kindness around Which I never felt so much as of late , when it looked as if I was soon to cast it away with such apparent rudeness ’ . |
| 19 | I write about Agnes , I try to imagine her , I let her sit on a bench in the sauna , walk around Paris , leaf through a magazine , talk with her husband , but the thing that started it all , the gesture of a woman waving to a lifeguard by the side of a pool , it must seem as if I had forgotten that . |
| 20 | as if I do n't have enough on my plate already . ’ |
| 21 | It was almost as if I had received a blow to the heart . |
| 22 | He moved a leg to scratch — innocently ? — his bulging crotch , and the knee just touched mine beneath the table , as if accidentally , and I felt as if I had been touched by lightning . |
| 23 | as if I learned to speak |
| 24 | I just stared back at him as if I did not recognize him , then moved away out of sight behind another screen . |
| 25 | ‘ I know ; sometimes I feel as if I should like to knock all their heads together . ’ |
| 26 | It was as if I could see Dorothy looking at them , looking at them , trying to draw something from them to help her to hold on . |
| 27 | And now it was as if I were sinking blissfully into a warm bath and lying there perfectly relaxed … |
| 28 | They look as if I were committing an indecency . |
| 29 | ‘ as if I did n't know . |
| 30 | Charles enquired what was going on , adding to himself , ‘ as if I cared now . ’ |