Example sentences of "[be] as if they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had they not all agreed when they left Ecalpemos and went their separate ways that it.was to be as if they had never met , known each other , lived together , that in future they must be strangers and more than strangers ? |
| 2 | And when a tune like that comes along , it 's as if they 've always known that song , and so then you tap in the song and that 's why you 're doing the record . |
| 3 | But when Gilbert sighs ‘ They give us names like paedophile , racist — all the names you can imagine ’ , it 's as if they wonder what all the fuss is about . |
| 4 | It 's as if they have a life of their own . ’ |
| 5 | It 's as if they think there 's something wrong with me . |
| 6 | It 's as if they think I 'm really Firmin and then from time to time I just pretend to be this white man called Charlie . |
| 7 | ‘ The clubs have that much power over players it 's as if they own them , and this is n't good for the game in the North . |
| 8 | When men live in the transcendent they become lost to the world ; it is as if they speak an unknown language and are no longer understood by other men . |
| 9 | I have subsequently discovered in them something which is not easy to admit even to myself : it is as if they anticipated the present . |
| 10 | The rest were a maze of villages with names that sounded like the refrain for a pantomime song , villages whose lives were as far removed from those Manchester lives he had known for so long that it was as if they inhabited another planet . |
| 11 | It was as if they realised that she was not for the rough and tumble of this world , like the aggressive women with shaggy hair styles who pushed their way through life thrusting their hard shopping baskets at defenceless men . |
| 12 | It was as if they expected , some time or other , for the Shakoor Rana affair ( Faisalabad , 1987 ) to be deliberately avenged . |
| 13 | It was as if they 'd been ordered not to be taken alive . ’ |
| 14 | It was as if they had landed on an alien planet , his fear that of awakening the denizens , giant and menacing . |
| 15 | It was as if they had read F. Scott Fitzgerald and were acting out Crazy Sunday . |
| 16 | It was as if they had forgotten they owned her . |
| 17 | ‘ It was as if they had all been locked up for three days the way they rushed in , ’ said a security man who saw the 8.30am rush . |
| 18 | She had seen so many of the students set out from her door , awkward and anxious , and after a few weeks it was as if they had been studying there all their lives . |
| 19 | It was as if they had just met . |
| 20 | It was as if they had found it too difficult to bridge the gap between simple experimental systems and the complexity of nature — as if the reductionism of the experimental method lost the holist qualities of the integrated complex whole that these distinguished ecologists saw in natural vegetation . |
| 21 | I found nothing ; it was as if they had vanished at the end of the revolution . |
| 22 | It was as if they had left it as late as possible to take maximum advantage of credit . |
| 23 | It was as if they had served to draw some morbid agent from her blood , as if they had been a great black and damson poultice to draw off her petulant humours and leave her as placid as a Madonna . |
| 24 | But it was as if they had brought the sun with them . |
| 25 | The Tree Spirits were discernible now ; it was as if they had broken through a thick veil , through a smothering black curtain , and they were recognisable as distinct forms , moving slowly in and out of the forest . |
| 26 | For one unbelievable moment their eyes met and once again it was as if they had stepped back into their own circle of magic . |
| 27 | It was as if they considered themselves above socialising with a mere shop assistant . |