Example sentences of "[noun] as if [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one occasion she packed up her car as if about to go away for the weekend , then sauntered up the street , leading the press to believe she had gone to buy a packet of Polos . |
| 2 | He pointed melodramatically , running a finger along in the air ahead of him , peering with burning eyes as if indeed watching an army of the dead , invisible to the rest of us . |
| 3 | Meanwhile the ethereal life of Ranveer , Bubbles and Socks , an unworldly trio who react in a childlike way to every sling and arrow as if permanently looking for Nanny , starts to unravel when a new administrator takes over the game park with thinly veiled hostility towards his country 's nobility . |
| 4 | He gazed round the sitting room at the long wall of books , the crackling wood fire , the oil of the Victorian prelate above the mantelshelf as if deliberately impressing each item on his mind , then sank into his chair and stretched out his long legs with a small grunt of satisfaction . |
| 5 | Forty years later , in his biography The Sweeping Wind ( 1962 ) , he described his first impressions : ‘ a young red-headed man , very tall and slightly stooped , nervous , his face spotty red as if about to explode into a dermatosis … |
| 6 | " Dr McNab has omitted to mention certain post mortem appearances which refute his view of cholera and support mine , " cried Dr Dunstaple waving his arms violently in his excitement and making thrusting gestures as if about to spear a particularly fine pig . |
| 7 | He fidgeted on his chair as if even thinking of them caused agitation . |
| 8 | The waitress counts her tip as if reasonably expecting a million dollars for all the aggravation caused . |
| 9 | Lady Francesca stared at the flowers as if already bored by the conversation . |
| 10 | Faye patted her growing belly as if already determined to shield her own child from the pain of something like a divorce . |