Example sentences of "[adv] as if [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought of the cabin up the creek to which his sister had withdrawn at his urging , and he turned to find the track , willing himself to control his horror , to keep moving nimbly and stealthily as if he did not feel unstrung . |
| 2 | I do it without premeditation , as naturally and wearily as if I did it every night . |
| 3 | Mark Twain was so impressed he included a description in his work The Innocents Abroad : ‘ I watched the Silver Swan which had a living grace about his movements and a living intelligence in his eyes — watched him swimming about as comfortably and unconcernedly as if he had been born in a morass instead of a jewellers ' shop — watched him seize a silver fish from under the water and hold up his head and go through all the customary and elaborate motions of swallowing it ’ . |
| 4 | The interrupted program therefore proceeds with the execution of the instructions at locations n+1 , n+2 , … , etc. as if nothing had happened , until the next interrupt signal is received . |
| 5 | They looked rather as if they had just raided an old clothes shop , few of the items of their clothing being a match , and for the most part , fitting only where they touched . |
| 6 | Banks also owned equity stakes in their clients , but their real influence came from debt : companies ' big exposure to bank debt gave the lenders control rather as if they held equity . |
| 7 | He seemed to be waiting for me to react , rather as if he 'd floated a fly in front of a fish . |
| 8 | He spoke the words ‘ sherry at six ’ with a hint of menace , rather as if he had said ‘ pistols at dawn ’ . |
| 9 | He said abruptly , rather as if he had been thinking about something quite different all the time Nick had been talking — ‘ She may be a little upset , I 'm afraid . |
| 10 | Whatever the business at hand was , he got on with it , rather as if you poured Draino into a sink . |
| 11 | She used to ring Otto at his office , rather as if she felt this experience had some professional interest to Otto . |
| 12 | In his wake were two older men in crumpled uniforms , unshaven clumsy fellows , carrying their rifles gingerly as if they feared they might go off unexpectedly . |
| 13 | When she tried again the door gave suddenly as if it had decided of itself to let her in . |
| 14 | Topaz went into Timothy 's arms as quietly and naturally as if nothing had happened . |
| 15 | ‘ But there are things you have no experience of , ’ he continued inexorably as if she had n't spoken . |
| 16 | I have no compass to tell me what I am destined for ; and yet , when I look back , everything seems to fit as well together as if I 'd been following a benevolent daimon all along … |
| 17 | His face was thin and emaciated , drawn together as if it spent each night in some kind of linen press . |
| 18 | His jerkiness was pathological ; not only as if he wanted to get rid of me , but of time itself . |
| 19 | First let her fear build up : let her come to believe that this prize , this catch of the season , would leave her not only as if she had never met him but somehow spoiled . |
| 20 | In Arequipa I had watched women in the church of Santo Domingo giggle happily as they dressed the Virgin for a procession ; , behaving much as if they had been preparing a girl for a wedding , not a poor girl though , rather one Velasquez might be called upon to paint . |
| 21 | He had a permanent smile in his eyes , I thought , much as if he found the whole of life a joke . |
| 22 | Whereupon he tried it stante pede , shoved the stool away and played standing at the organ , at the same time working the pedal , and doing it all as if he had been practising it for several months . |
| 23 | He shook his head doubtfully as if he did not believe me but did n't want to be harsh about saying so . |
| 24 | He held out the clipboard impatiently as if she quibbled over a minor detail . |
| 25 | In other words , in those studies where children heard both more and less in the same trials or same sessions , and where there were more than two responses possible , they showed no evidence of treating less as if it meant more . |
| 26 | There is a sort of agony in loving a man from a distance , especially as if you know that your own twin sister is as good as promised to him . |
| 27 | The Renaissance had provided western Europe with a handsome collection of hitherto lost Greek texts , literary , philosophical and historical , to be studied by scholars , admired by the cultivated ( generally in translation ) , and imitated , in part , by contemporary writers ; but insofar as the Renaissance was actually a " rebirth " of anything past , it was predominantly a rebirth of Rome and the spirit of Rome , not of Greece ; and the remains of Greek antiquity were treated , and well into the eighteenth century continued to be treated , largely as if they belonged to some kind of extension of the now assimilated world of Rome . |
| 28 | ‘ That 's the image you project on stage , ’ he continued mildly as if she had n't spoken . |
| 29 | Stereolab always look tonight as if they 've got a few more tricks up their sleeve than anyone else around at the moment , and in an age where recycling the past to create a spurious version of the future is the order of the day , they may well prove to be a benchmark of quality for their times . |
| 30 | Right on time , just as if nothing had happened . |