Example sentences of "[vb base] as [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost all her errors here were regularisations : for example , she read have as if it rhymed with ‘ cave ’ , lose as if it rhymed with ‘ hose ’ , own as if it rhymed with ‘ down ’ , and steak as if it rhymed with ‘ beak ’ . |
| 2 | Using each hand alternately , take hold of the flesh with the whole palm of your hand and fingers , pull away from the bone and squeeze as if you were kneading dough . |
| 3 | They make as if they 're gon na break into the room , and one of these guys is enjoying himself saying how he 's decided to rape her and then hand her to the dog . |
| 4 | Eat as if it were poison . ’ |
| 5 | The belligerence of their message and the violence of their appeal to negation and revolt is now passed over in silence and their works appear as if they were blank sheets to the privileged audiences of the present day . |
| 6 | You do , in practice , see a lot of advertisements which appear as if someone has written a strategy and then put it in the advertisement as it stood . |
| 7 | And you do n't fall asleep , as you are inclined to do if you try to be an absorbent sponge , soaking in what the authors say as if they had the last word . |
| 8 | You encounter as if they were a sort of home Fountains of fern that jet from the coarse loam . |
| 9 | ‘ I imagine , ’ Alexandra said with difficulty , her swimming eyes still fixed on her plate , ‘ that in most households , people of twenty-one are not required to eat food they detest as if they were children . ’ |
| 10 | Any absences that you 've had erm for sickness full or half pay actually count in full for in these calculations as do erm any maternity leave absence you know providing you were actually receiving pay that 's half pay or more then those absences count as if they have n't actually occurred . |
| 11 | ‘ You speak as if you knew , ’ Scandlain said . |
| 12 | It saddens me to hear some people in Britain speak as if there were some way of keeping Germany divided whether or not this is what the Germans want . |
| 13 | Speak as if there were twice as many people in the audience than there actually are . |
| 14 | When we act as if we already have certain qualities , experiences , relationships , opportunities or material possessions , we exert a powerful magnetic attraction for what we want to come into our lives . |
| 15 | But if we act as if we belong to Jesus Christ then we shall be seen to have that plus and others will be attracted to Jesus Christ through us . |
| 16 | In drama we act as if we were someone else , or as if we were ourselves in an other situation . |
| 17 | To some extent this reflects the power relationship in the scene , because both participants still act as if their former tutor/student relationship still exists , but it also indicates Anderson 's greater interest in what Hollar may have to tell him . |
| 18 | The term ‘ gouger ’ is flexible in that it refers to known criminals as well as others who look or act as if they have a potential for crime and trouble . |
| 19 | The Experience consists of four young men who look , talk and act as if they 've grown up in good families , graduated from decent schools , and dress as if they shop at just the right places — Paul Smith , say , or Emporio Armani . |
| 20 | Occasionally we hear of people of very advanced years who appear and act as if they were in their prime , both mentally and physically . |
| 21 | They are the guiding fictions which we repeat to ourselves so often , and with such conviction , that we forget that they are simply themes in a script we have written , and act as if they were true . |
| 22 | The followers of a charismatically inspired prophet may , for a while , feel and act as if they were all equally members of God 's elect , but if the community is to survive , the " routinization of charisma " , to use Weber 's term , always recreates a hierarchically ordered social structure . |
| 23 | You take me away for the weekend and then come back and act as if you 've just met me at a friend 's house for the first time ! |
| 24 | Act as if it were already true . |
| 25 | Why not just ignore the decision and act as if it was never made ? |
| 26 | I 'm up all night for nights and you do n't thank me , you act as if I 'm trying to exclude you from something . |
| 27 | Donkeys are not natural enthusiasts ; they walk as if they have arthritis . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Well , you could have felt the atmosphere in the room relax as if someone had opened a window , letting in the cool summer breeze . |
| 30 | Other essays are damaged by what appears to be an opposite problem , but is actually a result of the same lack of structure : they read as if they are trying to solve two or more problems at once . |