Example sentences of "[prep] if [pron] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So how about if you 'd both like to find out what a thirtieth of the way round is using the fra the factors there . |
| 2 | Erm Now what we want to talk about if I can Well you tell me what you want to know I think that 's the best . |
| 3 | Passing a street-light came to seem quite an event ; one watched their brave little sulphurous smudges receding with a feeling akin to despair , as if we might never find another . |
| 4 | as if we would so dishonour our mother republic ! ’ |
| 5 | as if we would never have the time to say all the things we needed to say to each other . |
| 6 | as if we 'd ever be allowed to forget that . |
| 7 | Manuel Caballeros took immense care with his fifteen-foot putt , stalking the line in both directions , conferring with his caddie , who had taken the pin out , staring at distant parts of the green as if they might unexpectedly become pregnant . |
| 8 | He states these facts slowly and carefully , as if they might somehow have slipped her mind . |
| 9 | They looked , from a distance , as if they might well be the remains of her first attempt at Islamic dress . |
| 10 | Mortgage rates increased dramatically and seemed as if they would never fall . |
| 11 | The puppets clung together as if they would never part . |
| 12 | Old feuds of race were diminishing , rivalries and prejudices were by degrees fading out.Such frequent and such intimate relations had thus been established between nations , that it seemed as if they must soon unite in one family , in one single federal state . |
| 13 | It was as if they should simply fade away when they got old like the soldiers they represented on stage . |
| 14 | I might remember not to treat people as if they could only act in one way . |
| 15 | They clung to one another as if they could never be parted again . |
| 16 | On the other hand , if we ignore the ego and its functions in man and concentrate on his instincts as if they could totally account for his behaviour as they do in animals who lack an ego , we should fall into the alternative trap of failing to account for his culture at all except as the outcome of doubtful instinctual behaviour of an altruistic or civilized kind . |
| 17 | In flight , its little wings look as if they can barely hold it in the air . |
| 18 | At the moment , Fergie 's high-flyers look as if they can only give away the title if it was not for carelessness against Newcastle they would still have a 100% record . |
| 19 | We have spoken about old partners as if they will always have had a long life together and that is indeed the case in many of the pairs whom we currently encounter . |
| 20 | He talked about events in the Middle Ages as if they 'd happened-yesterday and been fully aired on the nine o'clock news . |
| 21 | His glance swept all three of us challengingly : as if one could possibly forget a Surkov improvisation ! |
| 22 | We go on behaving and thinking as if there would never , never be enough . |
| 23 | He made it sound as if there would never be any escape . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'll be able to talk to her sooner or later , and it sounds as if she might actually be useful . |
| 25 | Sophia tried to see her sister as a spinster and it was not so very difficult — a rather eccentric spinster not even looking as if she might once have been ennobled by some tragic love affair . |
| 26 | Far from being wrapped up in the Tour and excited by it , she looked all the time as if she would sooner be anywhere else . |
| 27 | In the farthest corner , looking as if she would rather be anywhere else in the world at that moment , sat Dora . |
| 28 | Emmie shivered as if she would never stop . |
| 29 | She felt as if she would never need sleep again . |
| 30 | Ruth saw she could n't last long ; her face had a blind look , as if she could no longer see through the dazzling fire . |