Example sentences of "[verb] as if they [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this research , the investigator plans to study the possibility that adults on occasion expect young children to behave as if they already have an accurate conception of the process of communication , and that as a result of being expected to behave in this more mature way they come to realise why that behaviour is appropriate . |
| 2 | They look as if they just heard bad news . |
| 3 | Oddly reassured by that very lack of sympathy , Luce followed him on legs that felt as if they hardly belonged to her . |
| 4 | Looking down at the river , she could see that the level had dropped , uncovering lines of bricks on the wall beneath them that looked as if they rarely saw the sun . |
| 5 | Yeah , but I thought , sounded as if they only did tho , those that you blow up and this is n't , you can put it in , in the wash or anything . |
| 6 | And there were other tubes and other wires which crept under there , coupled to other tanks and other machines which quivered and laboured as if they also had some dim expectation of life . |