Example sentences of "as [conj] it could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this party looked as if it could go on for hours yet ! |
| 2 | Sure , there are no working clocks in the entire flat , just one lively broken green thing that ticks happily as if it could tell the time , though the second hand only pulses and stays in one place . |
| 3 | He was regarding her questioningly , searching her face as if it could tell him something . |
| 4 | The fish made little leaps and flips , as if it could feel the sea along its flank , its mouth wide open in a frantic dumb-show of breathing ; all the time , its eyes were growing dull and yellowed as old tinfoil . |
| 5 | My stomach feels as if it could explode . |
| 6 | ‘ It looks as if it could take a week — or more , ’ he read her question . |
| 7 | It winds up the hillside , and looks as if it could become a raging torrent in wet weather . |
| 8 | What was at best a speculative investment six months ago by five of the six major accountancy bodies , the BBC and accountancy trainers BPP , looks now as if it could turn into a roaring success . |
| 9 | It 's important to get the feeling of weight , et the balance of it right , not make it too light , as if it could rise up and float away like a feather . |
| 10 | It 's important to get the feeling of weight , et the balance of it right , not make it too light , as if it could rise up and float away like a feather . |
| 11 | Maybe what I did was an act of complicity , or looked as if it could have been . |