Example sentences of "as if [pron] [was/were] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We constantly come across situations where colleagues treat us as if we were just raising points of sexuality to be difficult , or as a piece of axe-grinding . |
| 2 | It was unbelievable ; it was as if we were barely acquainted . |
| 3 | ‘ She has all the best of me without my bad side , and if she were yours , it would almost seem as if we were not separated by death . |
| 4 | Some people think that having reasons for faith is an insult to God , as if we were desperately grubbing around for make-shift reasons to believe in him . |
| 5 | He showed us his collection of guns , taking them down from their racks and handing them out to us as if we were about to set off on some dangerous mission . |
| 6 | She 'd never seen either of us in a suit before — we were running them in , checking for labels we 'd missed and so on — and we had stood on her doorstep as if we were about to launch into the ‘ Have you heard the Good News … ’ routine . |
| 7 | And we ourselves will instinctively be perceived as ‘ anti-Christian ’ , as writers engaged in a fully fledged crusade which pits us , as militant adversaries , against the ecclesiastical establishment — as if we were personally bent on toppling the edifice of Christendom ( and so naive as to think such a feat possible ) . |
| 8 | Now , it looked as if they were newly decorating so whether the water got into there or not , but it did n't look as if they were in the process of decorating so I hope it did n't for their sake . |
| 9 | Fenella saw , with a thrill of horror , that as his hand went through the colours , the robes shivered as if they were not made of plain cloth , but of some living , breathing substance . |
| 10 | He was only gone a minute , and when he returned , it was with a couple in their fifties who were holding hands as if they were desperately hanging on to reality . |
| 11 | They are people who are old enough to go to war , and I think that there is a difficulty , you know , a major amoral difficulty or ethical difficulty in attempting to continue to treat young people as if they were still living at home and were not young adults but were really children . |
| 12 | He could hear the words as if they were still resonating in the dank air of the shower room . |
| 13 | This support enables terminals connected to asynchronous ports on the RS/6000 to operate as if they were directly connected to the AIX/ESA system . |
| 14 | His slacks and sweater were well-styled and good , but he managed to wear them as if they were about to fall off him . |
| 15 | Shadow ministers , who had been behaving as if they were about to move into Whitehall , looked stunned and shattered . |
| 16 | Eventually the majority of Cook 's excursionists were women ; they climbed the Alps , negotiated glaciers , scrambled up the Pyramids and crossed deserts , dressed always as if they were about to take afternoon tea with the vicar . |
| 17 | Despite the early hour , the eunuchs were all dressed and painted as if they were about to go out to a late-night nautch . |
| 18 | Most of the others hovered diplomatically to make it look as if they were about to turn back , while still edging gingerly forward . |
| 19 | It looked as if they were about to push back their chairs and join her at her table , and only just in time , Cassie remembered that she needed no further complications in an already bewildering and uncontrollable life . |
| 20 | Trade negotiations always look as if they were about to break down just before they succeed . |
| 21 | She turned her face , twisted her neck , found her eyes meeting a man 's eyes , their eyes close and gazing , as if they were about to kiss . |
| 22 | Daphne 's huge bosom and vast posterior looked as if they were about to burst from her too-tight black costume ; Rose , small-boned and slender , looked remarkably young and pretty in an aquamarine bikini that suited her fair colouring . |
| 23 | ‘ It sounded as if they were about to come to blows . |
| 24 | She was content to let it wash over her , occasionally noticing , like someone with a different first language , the way they laughed at things she did n't see the humour of , were made angry by perfectly innocent-sounding newspaper articles , discussed people she had never heard of as if they were better known than the Royal Family . |
| 25 | Too often , the loss of these senses results in older people being treated as if they were mentally impaired , with people talking to them as if they were slightly silly , or as if they had reverted to infancy . |
| 26 | The Doctor shook Blake 's hand as if they were long lost friends . |
| 27 | The police had apologized for the incident as if they were personally to blame , their apologies becoming even more profuse as they told her that , without a number plate ( which she had been unable to remember ) to trace , there was little chance of them finding the car , let alone the driver . |
| 28 | Instead , by virtue of the automatic novation when the Transfer Regulations apply , the contracts of employment continue to have effect after the transfer as if they were originally made between the purchaser and the employee . |
| 29 | However , there is a danger here of what I call the definitional fallacy , that is a tendency to seek to present the law as if everything was completely cut and dried , whereas such ‘ defences ’ may be better understood as ‘ excuses ’ the primary function of which , from a ( negative ) utilitarian point of view , is simply to minimize the amount of punishment actually imposed without jeopardizing the credibility of the general system of threat through which , arguably , criminal law realizes its prescriptive function . |
| 30 | Emmie felt frightened as if she were just going to jump into deep water . |