Example sentences of "[noun] as if [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He strode briskly into the building as if nothing had happened . |
| 2 | Some energy from point Q is also detected by the sensor as if it had originated at P , due to scattering at S1 . |
| 3 | ‘ The reader interprets the text as if it had been written in his own language , culture and time … . |
| 4 | The park lay in sodden neglect , sprawling over its rank acreage as if it had passed out . |
| 5 | His companion , swathed in a dark tawny robe as if he felt the cold , was a different kettle of fish : jet black hair framed a white face . |
| 6 | She was a little woman , not much taller than Carrie , but she seemed strong as a railway porter , carrying their cases as if they weighed nothing . |
| 7 | He fluttered his fingers as if he 'd picked up something hot . |
| 8 | I snapped my fingers as if I 'd forgotten something . |
| 9 | In the US , the protected class includes a person whose disability represents no handicap to employment but is treated by employers as if it did ; or whose disability is a handicap to employment but only as a result of the attitudes of others towards it ; or who has no disability at all but is erroneously treated by employers as disabled . |
| 10 | Esther says of Mrs Jellyby : her voice impressed my fancy as if it had a sort of spectacles on too Ch 8 and of Mr Turveydrop : |
| 11 | Violet looked at Patrick as if he had gone mad . |
| 12 | She was lifted against his bare chest as if she weighed no more than a feather , the shock of his warm skin and the slight roughness of short , curling hair against her palms rendering her abruptly speechless . |
| 13 | It made her feel strong , invincible almost , and just a tiny bit as if she had drunk too much wine . |
| 14 | She looked at him with a derision of her own , delighted to be able to go into battle , and she was just standing to leave when there was a noise in another room of the suite as if something had fallen over . |
| 15 | There was a distant whistle from behind Chernayev 's teeth as if he tried to blow away the wind that settled on him . |
| 16 | He had let out a number of slow deep breaths as if he had got out of a tight corner , but no sooner had he entered the room again than Lizzie said , ‘ Does Maggie know of this ? ’ |
| 17 | Though Mosley was represented to future generations as if he had been no more than a gutter politician and demagogue , the truth was that he had first attracted sympathy — if not support from many political figures who were subsequently to disown him . |
| 18 | Well they will be going through P as if everything goes |
| 19 | Wing Commander the Duke of Hamilton replied : ‘ My instructions are to let it run its course as if I know nothing at all about it . |
| 20 | So when I stumbled against him and threw my arms round his neck he just stood there , unmoving except for a slight step backwards to keep his balance — though I thought I felt his hands touch my waist for just an instant as if they had made an automatic move to hold me which he had cancelled . |
| 21 | A Scottish Office official responded that the list of potential sites had been published and local authorities were being asked to deal with any development proposals as if they had already been designated as SPAs . |
| 22 | That last bomb had taken out those houses as if it had come with a great grasping fist and scooped them up and crunched them into rubble as easily as if they 'd been made of matchsticks . |
| 23 | It had been seen nine years before at Kangaroo island and in 1840 came to us in thousands — running about the streets and Gardens and into the houses as if it had never seen man before . |
| 24 | You get a momentary flicker as if they acknowledge , suddenly , that there 's an intelligent life form here , but it passes . |
| 25 | Therefore it appears that a photon of energy E = hv behaves in a gravitational field as if it possessed an inertial mass E/c 2 ! |
| 26 | Madame Gebrec 's face became serious ; she took a sip of water , put down her glass and fiddled with the stem as if she had something on her mind . |
| 27 | He was so drunk that his words came thickly and with great difficulty as if he had been wounded . |
| 28 | This highly characteristic Fifties attitude makes Souza 's work look as if it belongs to a time rather than a place . |
| 29 | You make the pillowcase look as if it 's been washed with Brand X … |
| 30 | To decorate a dish of smoked salmon , so beautiful in itself , with lettuce leaves , or to strew it with tufts of cress , is not to make that salmon which has cost 38s. a pound look as if it cost £3 , but to belittle it so that you begin to feel it is some bargain basement left-over which needs to be disguised . |