Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] if [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 They both looked at me as if they strongly disapproved of me .
2 He was looking at me as if he really hated me ; he seized me by the shoulders and pushed me over to the bathroom mirror .
3 I shrank away from him , feeling a coldness run out all over me as if I really had died .
4 She smiles at me as if she really likes me .
5 He felt uncomfortable , uneasy at the way the Prince and Gaveston hardly spared them a glance whilst their companions at table treated them as if they simply did not exist .
6 He stared at her as if she already knew and was simply being obstructive .
7 One minute he was kissing her as if he never wanted it to stop , and the next he was trying to protect her in some cryptic , jaded way from a danger that seemed clear to him but was a mystery to her .
8 But only dimly , since she was wrapped in Lucenzo 's arms , and he was madly kissing her face and muttering loving words , holding her as if he never intended to let her go , his face now showing all he felt for her ; his undying love .
9 But the house , one of the rare examples of Sir John Soane 's domestic architecture , was pictured in so many books on the capital 's buildings that its elegant eccentricity was as familiar to him as if he commonly walked these streets and squares .
10 The people seemed friendly to him as if he often went there .
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