Example sentences of "[vb past] as if [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert Dexter 's eyes were shrewd in understanding as he returned her look , but it seemed as if he too realised the wisdom of not putting thoughts into words . |
| 2 | It was all she was prepared to say on the subject and he nodded as if he quite expected that . |
| 3 | He talked as if he never thought in words and had to invent them to describe the shapeless , bulky concepts in his mind as he went along . |
| 4 | Oddly reassured by that very lack of sympathy , Luce followed him on legs that felt as if they hardly belonged to her . |
| 5 | She felt as if she never wanted to go back into the house , as if it had tied her with a million cobweb fine lines , as the Lilliputians had trapped Gulliver , and that she could not get free . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | On the couple of occasions that we accidentally met , you looked as if you actually wanted to hit me ! ’ |
| 8 | There had been a light snowfall the previous night but it looked as if someone else had been here , visited the witch then gone back to the line of trees , covering their tracks by using a switch of old branches so no imprint could be seen . |
| 9 | She 'd tacked the first sketches for this picture up on the wall and they looked as if someone else had drawn them . |
| 10 | 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 . |