Example sentences of "[vb past] as if [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Alexei Sultanov , a nineteen-year-old from the USSR , was finally declared the winner , he rushed up on stage and lifted his trophy over his head and yipped with glee and the people of Fort Worth stood and clapped as if they had been seized with divine ecstasy . |
| 2 | Iris glowed as if she had received a personal compliment . |
| 3 | Patterson 's eyes flickered as if I 'd given him a straw to grasp , but I pressed on . |
| 4 | Just as they approached the doors , he stopped as if he had suddenly come to a decision . |
| 5 | He moved as if he had bags of sugar tied to his ankles . |
| 6 | And this could never be real , this never could be happening to her , walking on the white squares behind Finn , who moved as if he did not set his feet to the ground , so gracefully , so uncannily . |
| 7 | After putting a trial foot several times in the river , Harriet launched herself and swam as if she had been used to water all her life . |
| 8 | The meal that accompanied it was a feast , cooked and served by the patronne with justifiable pride : tiny moules marinières , which tasted as if they had been cut from the rocks that morning ; bifteck , brown and crisp on the outside , perfectly rare within ; a platter of thin crisp sizzling hot pommes frites ; an excellent salad , served in a plain white bowl . |
| 9 | All her attention was on her first bite of bread which tasted as if it had come straight from Paradise . |
| 10 | Next day we were visited by a pod of dolphins which behaved as if they had escaped from a circus . |
| 11 | No other manufacturer would be so profligate in their use of fabric but the Ashleys behaved as if they had fabric to spare . |
| 12 | Instead they took refuge in the weaker claim that agents , on average over time , behaved as if they possessed the correct underlying model for the purposes of prediction . |
| 13 | McConnell claimed that the cannibal worms behaved as if they remembered the conditioned response their food had learned , whereas worms allowed to cannibalize other , untrained worms showed no such change in behaviour . |
| 14 | Frank did n't apologize and Philip behaved as if nothing had happened . |
| 15 | Back again , he behaved as if nothing had happened . |
| 16 | He sort of behaved as if you did n't work there any more . ’ |
| 17 | She behaved as if she owned the place . |
| 18 | That 's to say , she had firm features and smartly cut , possibly dyed hair obviously kept under regular control , and she behaved as if she had known a time when she turned every head and expected you to be aware of this too . |
| 19 | He had a young wife who , although she was thirty years his junior , loved him dearly or , at any rate , behaved as if she did . |
| 20 | It was strange , the conversation Dad and I had , because when I saw him at home later and over the next few days he behaved as if it had never happened , as if he had n't told me he 'd fallen in love with someone else . |
| 21 | And Caroline , who had never developed the art of flirting , behaved as if it came as naturally to her as breathing . |
| 22 | They behaved as if I 'd got something to do with the wretched man 's disappearance . |
| 23 | Tammuz suspected the man may have eavesdropped on what had occurred in the canteen , but behaved as if he had n't . |
| 24 | He behaved as if he had n't seen Marie , and the girl went into the house when Jenna stared at her forcefully . |
| 25 | ‘ I believe they behaved as if he 'd had a fortunate escape — condemned Isabelle as an aventurière , and worse . |
| 26 | Parin stirred as if he did not understand the request . |
| 27 | In America he seemed the embodiment of the new age , ‘ the Bolshevik pianist ’ who played as if he had ‘ steel fingers , steel biceps , steel triceps ’ . |
| 28 | Then , as if to break the spell , the sheep dogs began to bark frenziedly and the nearby sheep stampeded as if they sensed impending danger . |
| 29 | Now , arriving at his own manor of Kouklia , he recognised as if he had been bred to it the sound and smell and look of each component ; each piece of equipment . |
| 30 | When Maria knocked on the door at half past five I woke as if I had a hangover . |