Example sentences of "as if [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is as if we put on our telescopes of the mind and magnify infinitely our habitual thoughts . |
| 2 | Once it was dark our spirits were again surprisingly high ; we all felt as if we belonged to a large family . |
| 3 | I often felt as if we came from different planets ! ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It is as if we said in 1950 the well-known prayer , God make us good , but not yet . ’ |
| 5 | We were n't hurting anyone or upsetting anyone , it was n't as if we stood in the corridor kissing and cuddling . |
| 6 | '' It is as if we have to be deeply conscious of our need and eager for God 's promised blessings . |
| 7 | But if we act as if we belong to Jesus Christ then we shall be seen to have that plus and others will be attracted to Jesus Christ through us . |
| 8 | Newly acquired words are treated as if they contrast with ones already known , and so serve to narrow down earlier over-extensions . |
| 9 | They hesitated as if they expected to be dismissed , and then hurled themselves noisily on Kadan . |
| 10 | He spoke very shrewdly and at alarming speed , in a low voice that seemed to come from elsewhere ; though his lips might be moving in front of Arthur , the shafts of help would sound as if they came from the wings or the orchestra pit . |
| 11 | The ties all looked as if they came from a jumble sale . |
| 12 | In response , however , Polycarp turns to the crowd in the amphitheatre and shouts out the words which the Proconsul has invited him to repeal as if they applied to the audience in the arena . |
| 13 | ‘ Away with the atheists ’ , he cries out , not as if the words applied to Christians but as if they applied to pagans . |
| 14 | Instead , it is hospitalised in a museum , to be visited by the public , who pretend to relate to the work as if they recognised in it something of eternal value . |
| 15 | Both mother and daughter looked as if they agreed with him but Mercer , smiling round clenched molars , said with surprising bitterness , ‘ You will do what I ask or accept the consequences . ’ |
| 16 | The Experience consists of four young men who look , talk and act as if they 've grown up in good families , graduated from decent schools , and dress as if they shop at just the right places — Paul Smith , say , or Emporio Armani . |
| 17 | The Renaissance had provided western Europe with a handsome collection of hitherto lost Greek texts , literary , philosophical and historical , to be studied by scholars , admired by the cultivated ( generally in translation ) , and imitated , in part , by contemporary writers ; but insofar as the Renaissance was actually a " rebirth " of anything past , it was predominantly a rebirth of Rome and the spirit of Rome , not of Greece ; and the remains of Greek antiquity were treated , and well into the eighteenth century continued to be treated , largely as if they belonged to some kind of extension of the now assimilated world of Rome . |
| 18 | On the other , we are all highly adept at creating socially defined sub-categories of man and then treating the members of the groups thus specified as if they belonged to quite different species from our own . |
| 19 | After a spell in the line men felt as if they belonged to some exclusive monastic order whose grim rites were simply beyond the comprehension of the laymen at the rear . |
| 20 | There the rise and swell of incomprehensible Latin seemed to have a grandeur that aroused the spirit of poetry in the Gaels , as if they stood on a rocky shore communing with the waves . |
| 21 | Most are known by name and some are greeted as if they stood before us . |
| 22 | ‘ Contemporary writers , ’ she said , as if they bordered on the unmentionable . |
| 23 | It 's not as if they say to their kids : ‘ try to the best of your ability . ’ |
| 24 | Two of the brass chandeliers suspended above the nave gave a gentle diffused light but the church looked dimly mysterious compared with the glare of the passage and the figures of Massingham and the detective sergeant quietly conferring , of Miss Wharton and the boy patiently sitting like hump-backed dwarfs on low chairs in what must be the children 's corner , seemed as distanced and insubstantial as if they moved in a different dimension of time . |
| 25 | ‘ These words are not included in section 1(1) of the Theft Act , but the appellant contended that the subsection should be construed as if they were , as if they appeared after the words ‘ appropriates . ’ |
| 26 | She said it quite casually , as if everybody went to war . |
| 27 | Again it was as if something stared through them from the other side . |
| 28 | The boy seemed in pain , his lips drawn back from his teeth in what was almost a snarl , his whole body hunched into itself , as if something ate at him from within . |
| 29 | Hepzibah sounded as if she knew about this . |
| 30 | She stared at him a moment , her eyes narrowed slightly , as if she saw through the flesh to the bone itself , and while he met her staring eyes unflinchingly , something in the depths of him squirmed and tried to break away . |