Example sentences of "[adv prt] as if [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only Mr Rumback walked on as if nothing had happened . |
| 2 | The villagers often joked that if she met a German tank on the road to Berkeley , she would order it off the road and pass on as if nothing had happened . |
| 3 | Their loss was not reported to police or the royal household — and work carried on as if nothing had happened . |
| 4 | ‘ Did you honestly expect me to stay home at the barn and carry on as if nothing had happened after you threw all those accusations at me ? |
| 5 | But like I said if it if you , if you do that then it 's for them and for yourself but them being up your arse is irritating if you just fucking carry on as if nothing had happened , but you 're aware of the th them doing that then I think it 's a fucking I 've that 's a psychological edge over them anyway it 's just the personalities obviously , but er |
| 6 | Mr Major looks set to soldier on as if nothing has happened , trusting that the improvement in the economy will restore his own , and his party 's , sagging popularity . |
| 7 | You just carry on as if nothing 's happened . |
| 8 | ‘ You ca n't make love to me like that and then expect me to carry on as if nothing 's happened . |
| 9 | Many with whom she had shared the screen for a brief while , people whom she had revered , who had even seemed to define life — such as Akhmatova and Pasternak and Vysotsky — had already slipped out of the plot , and the film churned on as if they had never been . |
| 10 | Why , when we all know that loneliness is a paralysing form of human misery , do we go on as if we thought that the deepest need of rational individuals was to be independent of one another ? |
| 11 | A pick up a penguin right , great , come on then Jeff say something pardon it did n't pick that up he said bollocks , Jeff just said bollocks , that 's good oh if tonight we would , see me driving along in the car and got that on , oh no , it 'll be really funny , we 're gon na be sitting there going come on as if we 'd said that today |
| 12 | Half the time we carry on as if we did n't have a body : and we only think about our bodies if they trouble us — if we 're hungry or in pain . |
| 13 | Perhaps it is this bicameral quality in the American mind that lets the citizen read of the all-out official ‘ war on drugs ’ and ‘ war on terrorism ’ on one page , and then turn the page and read of the CIA sharing a bank with Miami cartels and Abu Nidal , and still go on as if he inhabited a ‘ normal world ’ . |
| 14 | Another of this weekend 's conventional theses , which was anticipated here , was that of Kinnockian hubris — the possibility that voters went off Mr Kinnock for carrying on as if he had already won . |
| 15 | ‘ Most of our gear has been lost , and all your horses , ’ Finnan went on as if he had not heard him . |
| 16 | He went on as if he 'd heard nothing . |
| 17 | I , I need it to help me to get to Hanley or something like that and , and he does this all the time , and I look at him and I think well you know fancy being like that , surely we 're in a welfare state , there 's no need for that , I do n't know what his circumstances are , he may be homeless , I do n't know where he comes from and he just appears there and he carries on as if he loves the job , and that 's only in this country , but if you go abroad , many of you have been abroad have n't you ? |
| 18 | ‘ Grant took it on as if he did it every week and showed a wise old head on young shoulders . |
| 19 | There was none of the coy evasion of most women in her , he was thinking ; and went on as if she had not spoken . |
| 20 | But he carried on as if she had n't spoken . |
| 21 | ‘ Take this as a promise of my intention , ’ he went on as if she had n't spoken , and before she had time to realise what he intended to do , his mouth was on hers , harsh and demanding . |
| 22 | She was going on as if she loved the fucking man , not just the fucking ! |
| 23 | ‘ The whole thing was a perfectly natural mistake , but , thanks to him , they went on as if I 'd just attempted to rob the Bank of England . |
| 24 | Do n't go on as if it had happened , ’ he said . |
| 25 | We shall carry on as if it has not happened . |
| 26 | For this one date they were supported by the Billy Harper Trio with Peter Stuart and Adrian Tilbrook on bass and drums and they fitted in as if they 'd all been on tour together . |
| 27 | Then , an hour before ‘ They 'd be giving Luigi his shirt when Maradona would come in as if nothing had happened . |
| 28 | A hasty glance took in the gorgeous antique furniture crammed in as if it had been recently off-loaded by a dealer , the small , pristine cooker and the sink pushed against the soft ochre-washed wall as if it was an after-thought . |
| 29 | ‘ Damn fog ; it 's rolling in as if it means to isolate us beneath a blanket . ’ |
| 30 | Stuart came home last night in his usual cheerful mood , gave me a kiss , put his arm round me and made me sit down as if he had something important to say . |