Example sentences of "as if [pron] did [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The excuse ( as if we did n't know ) is to protect the woodland . |
| 2 | On the way three big German transport planes flew overhead , scattering thousands of leaflets printed in Italian which stated that Badoglio had deserted his country — as if we did n't know this already . |
| 3 | as if we did n't have enough to think about , we also had the performance of the streaker , of course . |
| 4 | Half the time we carry on as if we did n't have a body : and we only think about our bodies if they trouble us — if we 're hungry or in pain . |
| 5 | It was nt as if we did nt deserve to win anyway … but what do you reckon they would have done if the roles were reversed and Leeds played an illegible player ? |
| 6 | Nearly three months have passed … by now a relieving force may be no more than a day 's march away , and yet you 're prepared to mortgage away your future lives as if they did not exist ! |
| 7 | He moved forward importantly , pushing past Bernice and Cheryl as if they did not exist . |
| 8 | Gordon Orchard , a 61-year-old former Coldstream guardsman , who admitted abducting the child last summer , had 50 previous convictions , including indecent assault and attempted rape , but was sentenced as if they did not exist . |
| 9 | In contrast to the outside , the area was softly carpeted , softly lit , as if illness and death had to be cushioned away , made to look as if they did n't exist . |
| 10 | Again the boy looked down at his hands , staring at his arms and legs as if they did n't belong to him . |
| 11 | They kept staring at him , as if they did n't believe what they were seeing . |
| 12 | The children all looked as if they did n't have a care in the world , that this was just another ordinary day , and what was taking place within the hall some sort of social occasion . |
| 13 | as if they did n't have enough problems already , green turtles from Florida to Australia have been turning up with horrific cancerous tumours . |
| 14 | When he waved or smiled at those he knew , they turned away , as if they did n't know him . |
| 15 | It was n't as if they did n't know they were taking a risk — during the fifties and sixties debates raged in the press about highrise housing , with its defenders calling opposition simply prejudice . |
| 16 | Strong hints about his IRA sympathies , as if everyone did n't know he 'd been a self-proclaimed Sinn Feinner since he was a youngster . |
| 17 | It was as if she did not want him there . |
| 18 | It seemed to Charlotte as if she did not sleep at all that night , though her subsequent recollections of dreaming about telephones and disembodied voices suggested otherwise . |
| 19 | as if she did not know . |
| 20 | Rose said it as if she did not realize what a strange but interesting thing she had said . |
| 21 | Everyone came to her for advice , as if she did not have enough of her own problems to solve . |
| 22 | ‘ Me too , I suppose , ’ Ace said , as if she did n't care . |
| 23 | ‘ Are you going to a solicitor ? ’ she said in the end , cushioning her voice as if she did n't care . |
| 24 | It was as if she did n't exist . |
| 25 | Now he straightened up , but continued to act as if she did n't exist , though she 'd been forced to move as he moved . |
| 26 | I suppose I was the only one dawdling to look at her instead of going by as if she did n't exist . |
| 27 | When he went to look at Anna before going to school her eyes were once more as blue as the sky , and she curled her fingers round his as if she did n't want to let him go . |
| 28 | It 's not as if she did n't warn me , is it ? |
| 29 | A scrawny boy , his hand wrapped up in a bloodstained rag , his clothes caked in mud , who looked sicker than some of her patients , and the pale , sullen girl who stood over by the teatrolley , shifting awkwardly from one foot to the other and looking as if she did n't have a brain in her head . |
| 30 | as if she did n't have enough troubles to contend with . |