Example sentences of "[prep] if [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as if nothing at all had happened . |
| 2 | They 'd dress up then and go out to dinner to some restaurant , laughing and talking together as if nothing at all had happened . ’ |
| 3 | Next day , when he awoke at noon , he was as bright and cheerful as if nothing at all had happened . |
| 4 | He was behaving as if nothing at all had happened between them . |
| 5 | ‘ Mrs Tiverton you have also not met , ’ Rose pursued , indicating the thin dame as if nothing at all were amiss . |
| 6 | She sometimes comes to me in dreams , too — smiling and calm , as if nothing at all had happened . |
| 7 | He had turned her body to fire with a few practised touches out there and now he expected her to forget all that had happened , stand beside him and discuss the garden as if nothing in the world had just occurred . |
| 8 | ‘ We wo n't let them sit back and talk amongst themselves , as if everything in the garden is rosy , ’ she explained earnestly . |
| 9 | He felt the warmth of it flowing up his arm like an injection ; it was as if everything in her was being transmitted through their palms . |
| 10 | Now , The Cheaper Sex had been out in the States for some weeks , and it seemed as if everyone under the age of twenty-one wanted a copy . |
| 11 | Chief Inspector , you 're talking as if everyone in that car is now dead . |
| 12 | The next day it seemed as if everyone in the school knew . |
| 13 | It was as if something in the skinny mare compelled him ; he did not look at any of the others . |
| 14 | But I could only feel the sun on the back of my head and a sad , frightened sensation , as if something inside me was crying . |
| 15 | Hepzibah 's brilliant eyes looked into hers and Carrie felt as if something inside her , some hard , painful lump , were dissolving . |
| 16 | He saw the man 's limbs , tightly clenched as he drove his horse towards the Cutcherry guns , suddenly relax as if something inside him had snapped . |
| 17 | as if something within them had sharpened to awareness , or perhaps as if the darkling forest had wakened their strange ancestry and quenched the Human side of them . |
| 18 | Rincewind thought he could see a faint streak in the air , as if something from the mountain had reached out and touched the beast . |
| 19 | He merely nodded , however , as if he as a doctor fully appreciated the difficulties and while Rachel was searching for what to say next he said , ‘ I could n't believe it when I found you working here . ’ |
| 20 | He could have sworn that he had heard yet another vehicle out there , as if he in turn were being followed , but there was nothing to be seen . |
| 21 | Her travelling companions had quietened , as if someone in authority had arrived . |
| 22 | Second surprise was the music — a soft waltz coming to her through deep blue dusk , strings and woodwind , as if someone in a grand house up on the hill had just opened the door of the ballroom . |
| 23 | as if someone like me should have sat there quietly like a mouse , demure and repressed ! |
| 24 | It is as if none of these problems and controversies ever existed . |
| 25 | When the journalists looked up from their notebooks and cameras , they had all gone , the multitude of minders , aides and advisers , as if none of this had ever happened . |
| 26 | Sigarup bowed his head and cupped both palms loosely in front of his face , as if none of the yellow rice should fall to the ground . |
| 27 | ‘ Fuckin' useless , that boy , ’ Reg said , as if none of this came as a surprise to him . |
| 28 | And then there was a curious little embarrassed pause , as if none of us knew what to say . |
| 29 | It felt as if none of that had ever happened . |
| 30 | It is a worrying time for the Cupertino company , but it probably can come through more or less unscathed , simply because people buy Apple kit not for the underlying technology but for what 's on top of it , so provided a happy marriage can be arranged between the PowerPC hardware and Apple 's software , and the thing ends up looking to the user like a Macintosh that is simply faster , more powerful , more easy to use and in all ways better than the 68040-based models , Apple should be able to scrape through — and there is still a Motorola Inc 68060 in the pipeline that Apple can fall back on if everything in the IBM relationship goes awry . |