Example sentences of "as if it [vb -s] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shrug and look away , as if it does n't matter . |
| 2 | " You speak of the OTC market as if it does n't exist . |
| 3 | Where the statute looks as if it does not cover certain forms of conduct the courts have sometimes read the statute widely to convict the " manifestly guilty " . |
| 4 | And so far , with our results , it looks as if it does not seem to have a major impact on our patients , so we may be doing something that does n't er particularly help the patients , and this is very important since we spend a lot of time doing these sorts of er procedures in our patients . |
| 5 | An oriental author , writing as long ago as 1708 , records that one of the cat 's unique features is that ‘ it perishes in a place quite out of human sight , as if it wills not to let man see its dying look , which is unusually ugly ’ . |
| 6 | We shall carry on as if it has not happened . |
| 7 | The show is hip and happening , dude : the audience looks as if it has just walked in off the King 's Road , the post-modernish set is ultra-cool , the show 's titles are dazzling , the best I 've seen on British television . |