Example sentences of "[was/were] as if [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as if everything had suddenly come clear . |
| 2 | The rest were a maze of villages with names that sounded like the refrain for a pantomime song , villages whose lives were as far removed from those Manchester lives he had known for so long that it was as if they inhabited another planet . |
| 3 | It was as if they realised that she was not for the rough and tumble of this world , like the aggressive women with shaggy hair styles who pushed their way through life thrusting their hard shopping baskets at defenceless men . |
| 4 | It was as if they expected , some time or other , for the Shakoor Rana affair ( Faisalabad , 1987 ) to be deliberately avenged . |
| 5 | It was as if they 'd been ordered not to be taken alive . ’ |
| 6 | It was as if they had landed on an alien planet , his fear that of awakening the denizens , giant and menacing . |
| 7 | It was as if they had read F. Scott Fitzgerald and were acting out Crazy Sunday . |
| 8 | It was as if they had forgotten they owned her . |
| 9 | ‘ It was as if they had all been locked up for three days the way they rushed in , ’ said a security man who saw the 8.30am rush . |
| 10 | She had seen so many of the students set out from her door , awkward and anxious , and after a few weeks it was as if they had been studying there all their lives . |
| 11 | It was as if they had just met . |
| 12 | It was as if they had found it too difficult to bridge the gap between simple experimental systems and the complexity of nature — as if the reductionism of the experimental method lost the holist qualities of the integrated complex whole that these distinguished ecologists saw in natural vegetation . |
| 13 | I found nothing ; it was as if they had vanished at the end of the revolution . |
| 14 | It was as if they had left it as late as possible to take maximum advantage of credit . |
| 15 | It was as if they had served to draw some morbid agent from her blood , as if they had been a great black and damson poultice to draw off her petulant humours and leave her as placid as a Madonna . |
| 16 | But it was as if they had brought the sun with them . |
| 17 | The Tree Spirits were discernible now ; it was as if they had broken through a thick veil , through a smothering black curtain , and they were recognisable as distinct forms , moving slowly in and out of the forest . |
| 18 | For one unbelievable moment their eyes met and once again it was as if they had stepped back into their own circle of magic . |
| 19 | It was as if they considered themselves above socialising with a mere shop assistant . |
| 20 | It was as if we had n't even parted really . |
| 21 | We 'd been discussing something else , and I said it out of the blue , but in my mind it was as if we 'd just been talking about Oliver , and the way she answered , as if she thought we 'd just been talking about Oliver too and there was n't any break in that conversation even though we 'd been through lots of different subjects in the meantime , made me feel very cheerful . |
| 22 | It was as if what had happened at Jocko 's and Haleiwa and Freddie 's was all a bad dream . |
| 23 | It was as if what had happened did not surprise him . |
| 24 | God , it was as if nothing had ever happened between them . |
| 25 | Again it was as if something stared through them from the other side . |
| 26 | But inside it was as if something had sucked out furniture , leaving the spirit of the house intact . |
| 27 | It was as if someone had been trapped inside and had kicked and beaten the door — perhaps without success — until the power had gone and they had been able to drive back down the hill . |
| 28 | It was as if someone had suddenly turned off the sound . |
| 29 | It was as if someone had asserted that it was inconceivable that a mammal should lay an egg and then a duck-billed platypus had turned up . |
| 30 | It was freezing inside the huge building ; it was as if someone had sucked every ounce of warm air from the interior and replaced it with icy breath . |