Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] if [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Topaz Chilcott walked behind her family , hanging back a little as if to emphasise the fact that she had never really been accepted by it . |
| 2 | From time to time , unimportant bits of orchestration are spotlit as if to fill the half-bar between phrases ( sample the harp arpeggio at 3′33″ ) . |
| 3 | Leni smiled quickly , then just sat , very upright as if setting a good example , and seemed to be thinking something out . |
| 4 | Now what 's happened , what would happen if we were to follow the same type of line there would be that the airfield would stay open as if needed a small commuter airfield . |
| 5 | She achieved the crest of the road and saw it spill over , and the village in the bottom of the valley , silent as if drowned a hundred years beneath a lake . |