Example sentences of "[vb base] as if [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost all her errors here were regularisations : for example , she read have as if it rhymed with ‘ cave ’ , lose as if it rhymed with ‘ hose ’ , own as if it rhymed with ‘ down ’ , and steak as if it rhymed with ‘ beak ’ . |
| 2 | You do , in practice , see a lot of advertisements which appear as if someone has written a strategy and then put it in the advertisement as it stood . |
| 3 | And you do n't fall asleep , as you are inclined to do if you try to be an absorbent sponge , soaking in what the authors say as if they had the last word . |
| 4 | Any absences that you 've had erm for sickness full or half pay actually count in full for in these calculations as do erm any maternity leave absence you know providing you were actually receiving pay that 's half pay or more then those absences count as if they have n't actually occurred . |
| 5 | ‘ You speak as if you knew , ’ Scandlain said . |
| 6 | But if we act as if we belong to Jesus Christ then we shall be seen to have that plus and others will be attracted to Jesus Christ through us . |
| 7 | The Experience consists of four young men who look , talk and act as if they 've grown up in good families , graduated from decent schools , and dress as if they shop at just the right places — Paul Smith , say , or Emporio Armani . |
| 8 | The term ‘ gouger ’ is flexible in that it refers to known criminals as well as others who look or act as if they have a potential for crime and trouble . |
| 9 | You take me away for the weekend and then come back and act as if you 've just met me at a friend 's house for the first time ! |
| 10 | Donkeys are not natural enthusiasts ; they walk as if they have arthritis . |
| 11 | Well , you could have felt the atmosphere in the room relax as if someone had opened a window , letting in the cool summer breeze . |
| 12 | Bon Jovi never did dirty their songs with real spunk , anger or despair , on in fact any emotion that was n't packaged up in stadium size , third-hand slogans with melodies so open and bare they sound as if they 've caught sunstroke in the New Jersey heat , and nothing 's changed . |
| 13 | " You sound as if you 'd done it before , " said Anna . |
| 14 | ‘ You sound as if you 've got a bit of a toothache , that 's all . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Why , Alice , ’ Harry said , staring at her curiously , ‘ you sound as if you 've fallen in love with someone you ca n't have . |
| 16 | He whispered , ‘ You sound as if you 've got a dreadful cold . |
| 17 | Stella said , ‘ You sound as if you 've met before . ’ |
| 18 | In fact you sound as if you 've hardly a minute to yourself between looking after the grandchildren and caring for your husband . |
| 19 | ‘ You sound as if you 've an axe to grind there , Mr Malpass . ’ |
| 20 | Aside from six months of celibate desire , three bottles of wine with the greatest drag queen in the world , a won't-be-shrugged-off resentment that only now you sound as if you care ? |
| 21 | ‘ You actually sound as if you care about what happens to the men who undergo this operation . ’ |
| 22 | " You sound as if you think I did it all on purpose , " she said . |
| 23 | ‘ You sound as if you do n't like him much . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ You sound as if you feel his killing was a kind of justice in itself , ’ said Anne Hopper . |
| 25 | ‘ You sound as if you have turned into a brainless ninny , like the rest of them , ’ Catherine said crossly . |
| 26 | ‘ You sound as if I 'd been gone for a few hours and forgot to leave you a note . ’ |
| 27 | I I hope this is not a mischievous comment , but I I think it 's very questionable , whether the Christian faith would be known as it is today , down two thousand years , had it not been for an innocent man , Jesus , being unjustly punished and crucified , and so many of the great reformers in the history of man , men and women have died or suffered grave imprisonment because of injustice , and in a paradoxical way , injustice in a way , yo you almost seem as if we need injustice to drive us on , to get things done in a , in a better way . |
| 28 | The 18th-century mountain traveller John Macculloch described Sutherlands as containing ‘ mountains which seem as if they had tumbled from the clouds , having nothing to do with the country or each other . ’ |
| 29 | You seem as if you have been taking the walk in the rain . |
| 30 | There are a few like myself , who look as if they wished they were n't there , and would like to get the whole thing over as quickly as possible . |