Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 : |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It made her feel strong , invincible almost , and just a tiny bit as if she had drunk too much wine . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | You get a momentary flicker as if they acknowledge , suddenly , that there 's an intelligent life form here , but it passes . |
| 13 | 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 ! |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He was so drunk that his words came thickly and with great difficulty as if he had been wounded . |
| 16 | This highly characteristic Fifties attitude makes Souza 's work look as if it belongs to a time rather than a place . |
| 17 | You make the pillowcase look as if it 's been washed with Brand X … |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I kept on popping questions , he would n't answer , all he could do was look as if I had no right to ask . |
| 20 | Richard got up and balanced on the ball of one foot as if he had been seized by an attack of cramp . |
| 21 | But when Felicity arrived , three days later , it seemed at first glance as if she had lost every atom of her old charm . |
| 22 | He actually picked up Angy 's phone … it was off the hook and covered in blood as if she 'd tried to use it to call for help . |
| 23 | I think she thought I was crying at firs , I think I might have been , but then she started laughing too , with her face all twisted to one side as if she 'd been to the dentist , and she kept gasping and saying , " Ooh , it hurts ! |
| 24 | He cocked his head to one side as if he had just realised something awful . |
| 25 | The partial pressure of component a is given by the ideal gas equation as If we repeat this for all the components and substitute these expressions into equation ( 7 ) we obtain By combining equations ( 8 ) and ( 9 ) we obtain The quantity is known as the mole fraction of component a . |
| 26 | She strutted around in the snow as if it belonged to her . |
| 27 | As they walked towards the hotel , she gave him the rates on an ascending scale and spat her gum into the kerbside as if she had already decided what his preference would be . |
| 28 | Somehow his mother could shut out the unpleasant from her mind as if it had never existed and she had shut out the Worm as successfully as she had shut out everything else . |
| 29 | She could n't resist embroidering the description , seeing it all in her mind as if it had really happened . |
| 30 | Seventy-five years later , whenever I feel the sun on my face , it springs as fresh in my mind as if it occurred yesterday . |