Example sentences of "she [prep] if [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Creeping after her as if they stalked her . |
| 2 | After the service , she would find him loitering on the towpath , and he would join her as if they had n't parted . |
| 3 | When Melinda answered him in fluent Arabic , they all looked at her as if they had seen a ghost , bade us goodnight , and melted away into the darkness again . |
| 4 | It felt to her as if they had just unlocked the key to the whole universe , but she had a feeling that was not what he meant . |
| 5 | ‘ What ? ’ he said mock-innocently and drew away from her as if nothing had happened . |
| 6 | They stared at her as if she 'd turned into a circus freak . |
| 7 | ‘ But clear that shit up , first , ’ he said , nodding toward her fallen tray and its spillage , and then he swung his chairback around to her as if she 'd ceased to exist . |
| 8 | Josie 's hand slid from around her as if she 'd been holding nothing more substantial than a wisp of smoke . |
| 9 | Bad enough to feel the way she did , let alone have to spend time with a man who treated her as if she 'd just crawled from under a stone . |
| 10 | Her prosecutor was looking at her as if she 'd just crawled from under a stone . |
| 11 | Nicolo looked at her as if she 'd lost her mind . |
| 12 | Nicolo stared at her as if she 'd gone mad . |
| 13 | Looking around her as if she thought someone was going to run out of the field behind her and save her , she saw that the man was much nearer . |
| 14 | She was n't saying anything , but Ma smiled at her as if she had done something very clever . |
| 15 | This trick took hours of practice , up and down the landing at the hostel while the other girls looked at her as if she had taken leave of her senses . |
| 16 | The sadness seemed to extinguish her as if she had no real eyes or fingers or genitals or teeth or frown-lines or kidneys but these were just slight irregularities in the sponge that was her sadness . |
| 17 | The bounce went out of her as if she had burst . |
| 18 | Her friend greeted her as if she had never been away , so the guilt evaporated and she began to talk about Nicky . |
| 19 | She had just had the most beautiful experience of her whole life and Roman was looking at her as if she had cheated him . |
| 20 | Luke was still staring at her as if she had gone mad . |
| 21 | Luke 's arms came round her as if she had summoned him by saying his name , and she could n't continue . |
| 22 | Mitch glared at her as if she had ordered him back all by herself . |
| 23 | Her husband , suffering in his own quite different way , looked at her as if she had gone crazy . |
| 24 | Travis stared at her as if she had indeed gone crazy . |
| 25 | Constance could not get out of her mind the careless way Gioella had completely taken over Ludovico , excluding her as if she mattered not at all . |
| 26 | He was treating her as if he knew her , as if he cared what she thought , and she could n't even get her face under control . |
| 27 | He flashed a glittering glance at her as if he felt her eyes on him and his gaze ran slowly over her face . |
| 28 | Roman dropped his arm from her shoulders , faced her as if he 'd just returned , mentally , from some distant place . |
| 29 | Alain had rescued her as if he cared what became of her , and she supposed he had to , anyway ; she was , as he had said , his responsibility . |
| 30 | Her father glared at her as if he suspected her of having the whole thing arranged behind his back . |