Example sentences of "[noun pl] as if [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people speak , and write , through a blur of adjectives as if they secretly knew that at heart of their hackneyed attempts to articulate is nothing . |
| 2 | Every morning at Mass he sought her smiling eyes as if she alone understood his loneliness and felt for him . |
| 3 | The problem is that it has the effect of actually reinforcing alienation , leaving room for that disjunction from the natural world which allows certain scientists to behave with inconceivable cruelty in their laboratories , which allows workers in slaughter houses to treat animals as if they simply had no rights or feelings at all , which allows people to justify all manner of exploitation , as if there were no moral obligations or injunctions upon us whatsoever . |
| 4 | I began to pat at my pockets as if I really meant it but the barman shook his head . |
| 5 | They ask about the short stories as if they really want them — none of that toffee-nosed ‘ we might conceivably ’ stuff we had last time . |