Example sentences of "[vb infin] as if [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if the child is never born alive , things will remain as if it had never existed . |
| 2 | Anyone who did n't know him would turn up their nose , looking down on him , but Clary would only laugh as if he enjoyed it . |
| 3 | That with one word from him she would behave as if nothing had happened ? |
| 4 | Pigeons clock-shifted 6 hours forward should behave as if they had been taken west : a pigeon , for example , clock-shifted 6 hours in a loft at Rome and then released at midday would think that the time at home was 6.00 p.m. , deduce that it had been moved to New York , and therefore home by flying east ( if we ignore the fact that it would recognize local landmarks ) . |
| 5 | ‘ At the party , you must behave as if you like me . ’ |
| 6 | Our experience of electronic technology prepares us to accept the idea that unconscious machinery can behave as if it understands complex mathematical ideas . |
| 7 | And reciprocally , if memory formation requires the synthesis of proteins for the construction of synapses , then if one could stop the proteins from being synthesized around the time of learning then the memory should not be formed ; an animal trained on a task and prevented from synthesizing proteins should behave as if it has no memory for the task — is amnesic — when it is subsequently asked to perform it . |
| 8 | I ca n't bring myself to say she does n't care about her father , but she does n't act as if she cared for him very much . " |
| 9 | Nanny is definitely a ‘ Lower Breed ’ , but she does n't act as if she knows it . |
| 10 | By then large drops were falling all around me , another landing on my wig and one splashing on my shoulder , making me jump as if I 'd been prodded with a therm-knife . |
| 11 | Most travellers will explain , like the writer and traveller Paul Theroux , that unless the journey has been difficult they do not feel as if they have been travelling . |
| 12 | Strange as it may seem , some people have more difficulty in handling or expressing warm , loving feelings than negative , angry ones ; or it may feel as if they have to keep a tighter reign on the loving feelings , which they perceive as making them more vulnerable to rejection and disappointment . |
| 13 | I f I shall feel as if we 've been from here cos when I was first married we lived up round the next road . |
| 14 | I do n't exactly feel as if we 'd had our monies worth there . |
| 15 | It made us feel as if we had progressed up the Bletchley ladder . |
| 16 | Elsie B graced me with a long chat which made me feel as if I 'd been in the presence of royalty , though I suspect not too many members of the Royal Family are at their desk as early as Elsie . |
| 17 | ‘ You make me feel as if I 'd died . ’ |
| 18 | It stops me concentrating on breathing properly and makes me feel as if I 've lost control of the situation . |
| 19 | Er , my experience is slightly different when erm when I had been trying to sort of recover , I did n't , I did n't feel as if I 've get any help from professionals that I approached . |
| 20 | I am chickening out cos I do n't feel as if I 've learnt an awful lot . |
| 21 | And I shall feel as if I 've got up , been round the world |
| 22 | Sorry to say this , but I did n't feel as if I liked any of the people I was involved with either . ’ |
| 23 | Maybe I do n't feel as if I exist in my own right . |
| 24 | you do n't feel as if you 've missed anything . |
| 25 | During the next 60 seconds it will induce feelings of warmth.You will feel as if you have everything you could possibly want.Let these feelings fill your whole consciousness.These effects are n't permanent . |
| 26 | This sensitive point made Hank feel as if he had been returned sharply to the schoolroom , but he said unrepentantly : ‘ Nuts ! |
| 27 | He made me feel as if he had rescued me from some intellectual gutter , some abyss of boredom . |
| 28 | It did n't feel as if she had a body at all . |
| 29 | That you 're greeted in the first place with erm either silence or some vague and not singularly hopeful mutter , but more importantly with a curious facial expression mingled between erm dread and contempt , sort of thing you 'd expect as if you 'd said you were a sorcerer . |
| 30 | Except that Ministers do n't normally look as if they had n't slept all night . |