Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [prep] if " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe what I did was an act of complicity , or looked as if it could have been . |
| 2 | Frau Nordern was , or sounded as if she was , utterly amazed . |
| 3 | The band had been thrown together at the last moment ; and none of the musicians looked or sounded as if he was enjoying the experience . |
| 4 | These reactions against a new computer system may stem from a number of reasons , largely historical , but they will have to be corrected or allowed for if future computer applications are going to succeed . |
| 5 | ‘ The evil of Sauron can not be wholly cured ’ , replies Gandalf , ‘ nor made as if it had not been . ’ |
| 6 | I saw a man drinking avidly from a green scum-covered marsh , where lay , his black face downward in the water , a dead man lying on his stomach and swollen as if he had not stopped filling himself with water for days … |
| 7 | Where religion is reduced to either , and treated as if it were simply a form of knowing or a form of doing , it is lost to sight altogether . |
| 8 | Despite the early hour , the eunuchs were all dressed and painted as if they were about to go out to a late-night nautch . |
| 9 | But her whole body , strained and bruised as if he had beaten her , that was the monument to his reality . |
| 10 | He was grim-faced and looked as if he had not slept , but he offered them freshly made coffee and raised a smile for Catherine . |
| 11 | It was dark with age and looked as if it had been coated with treacle . |
| 12 | At the cadenza , she stumbled down the keyboard with something that had elements of a flourish but ended up sounding more like a digital coronary , an awful , shaming collapse of the fingers that , at the last minute , recovered itself and looked as if it might turn into something like the chord of A minor . |
| 13 | Instead of talking about the job he said some words to me in Punjabi or Urdu and looked as if he wanted to get into a big conversation about Ray or Tagore or something . |
| 14 | He was very apologetic , and looked as if he might be taken away and hanged for the delay . |
| 15 | It was brownish-yellow and very tattered and looked as if it might be the real thing . |
| 16 | Archie shuffled his feet and looked as if he 'd like to vanish up his parlour chimney . |
| 17 | His face had gone very red and looked as if it had been sprayed with water . |
| 18 | When gardening he often wore very baggy trousers with braces , gum boots and a waist-length black donkey jacket which hung loose and looked as if it was too short . |
| 19 | She wore a large white straw hat and looked as if she 'd just been to church . |
| 20 | When he looked back , the Punk had taken the woman 's straw hat off and looked as if he might be about to eat it . |
| 21 | They were short and deformed and looked as if they were made of rubber . |
| 22 | His small suitcase had been packed , and looked as if it was ready to go . |
| 23 | He was gormless , spoke in a funny nasal accent and looked as if he could do with a kick up the backside . |
| 24 | Jacqui stood up and looked as if she was about to hit him . |
| 25 | They hung at the end of slender wrists and looked as if they had been tacked on to the wrong person . |
| 26 | The sitting-room was long , and looked as if a child had been let loose with buckets of primary colours . |
| 27 | She had lost a good deal of her bloom and bounce , and looked as if the sentiments of the burial service kept stabbing her to the heart . |
| 28 | But Hadrill was carrying a huge score and looked as if he took opera seriously . |
| 29 | He lifted a hand , and looked as if he was going to touch her cheek , and then dropped it . |
| 30 | And so warm , if felt as if it had substance . |