Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] if [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the contrary ; he seemed to get better as the game progressed , winning tackles as if to order , losing little in the air . |
| 2 | Meh'Lindi commenced some isometric combat exercises as if to repel the oppression of being in the warp , which at times could generate a spiritual migraine , an ache of the soul . |
| 3 | All other things equal , it looks as if producing more of the model is beneficial . |
| 4 | She writes as if anticipating the publication of her diary . |
| 5 | The southern Italian peasant , he said , acts as if following this rule : ‘ Maximise the material short-run advantage of the nuclear family ; assume that all others will do likewise . |
| 6 | Now you have castles grim towering to heaven ; again , a storm-beat wall of cliff , the mist surgings beneath imitating the motions of the waves of ocean ; now you seem to get a peep of fairyland , and think you see the dwellers in a city of light : again , the veil seems as if hiding a very abode of woes , dark places of gloom . |
| 7 | Miss Snoot moves as if to draw the curtains , but her father forbids her with a shake of his head . |
| 8 | This triggers chemical changes in your body , which reacts as if threatened by a foreign substance . |