Example sentences of "[is] as if [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when a tune like that comes along , it 's as if they 've always known that song , and so then you tap in the song and that 's why you 're doing the record . |
| 2 | But when Gilbert sighs ‘ They give us names like paedophile , racist — all the names you can imagine ’ , it 's as if they wonder what all the fuss is about . |
| 3 | It 's as if they have a life of their own . ’ |
| 4 | It 's as if they think there 's something wrong with me . |
| 5 | It 's as if they think I 'm really Firmin and then from time to time I just pretend to be this white man called Charlie . |
| 6 | ‘ The clubs have that much power over players it 's as if they own them , and this is n't good for the game in the North . |
| 7 | In that trance-like state we drift apart , still staring , but when I turn aside it 's as if we snapped a silken cord . |
| 8 | With Caliban it 's as if somebody made him drink a whole bottle of whisky . |
| 9 | It 's as if she taps into something greater , and acts with no reservation . |
| 10 | It 's as if she made it herself , ’ he said , munching happily on the fish ball . |
| 11 | ‘ I told you Claudia would know , she always does ; it 's as if she lives in my head . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It is n't that Constance is naughty , or has tantrums , ’ she said to her cousin on the telephone , ‘ it 's as if she has just turned her back on me . |
| 13 | It 's as if he painted an outline — there 's a hollow here , and here — like a tail … and a head round there , like a kind of head , striped just here … and you 've got the blue — and — it looks something like a foot … |
| 14 | It 's as if he knew . ’ |
| 15 | It 's as if he vanished . |
| 16 | He 's just not there any longer ; and it 's as if he 'd never been , for none of the things he said are heard any longer either ; it 's a bad dream , and the Leader does n't have to sleep through it any more . ’ |
| 17 | It 's as if he 'd just had a snort of it . |
| 18 | It 's as if he has heroically outlined himself , Lee thought , become the most significant member of the group . |
| 19 | It 's as if he has been drawn outside himself by indignation ; transcended himself ; literally risen into the air above his own head , so that he can see beyond the confines of his own life . |
| 20 | It 's as if he has just noticed an extra thumb . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's as if he knows one bad performance will result in him being dropped by Graham . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's as if he 's been wiped off the face of the earth ! ’ |
| 23 | ‘ It 's as if it had a mind of its own ’ , ’ Grimma read . |
| 24 | It had been saddled up ready for him and as Li Yuan stood there , it turned its head curiously , its large dark eyes meeting the prince 's as if it knew its new owner . |
| 25 | ‘ Sometimes , it 's as if it takes a breathing space . ’ |
| 26 | It 's as if it 's always been . |
| 27 | ’ It 's as if you prefer animals to people . ’ |
| 28 | it 's as if you 've been anaesthetized ! |
| 29 | And although we often hear about different jobs being of different sorts of status , they 're on a ladder of status , its for unemployed people the situation is very often as if you 've actually been kicked off this ladder and this is what people say when they describe being unemployed as being on the scrap heap and so on , it 's as if you 've been expelled from this particular world where erm people respect you for having a job and know that you 're contributing . |
| 30 | It 's as if you 'd gone out into the bigger world and found out that it 's frightening or that it hurts , so you go home . |