Example sentences of "as if [pron] [verb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | Gentlemen : It is with great regret that I see so many students labouring day after day in the Academy , as if they imagined that a liberal art , such as ours , was to be acquired like a mechanical trade , by dint of labour , or I may add the absurdity of supposing that it could be acquired by any means whatever . |
| 3 | No feet picked up , just a slovenly shuffle in the snow … as if they knew that their scraping passage festered in the mind of the Major . |
| 4 | as if they knew that the problem was not resolved a letter arrived yesterday from the headquarters of British Bakeries . |
| 5 | It was as if they realised that she was not for the rough and tumble of this world , like the aggressive women with shaggy hair styles who pushed their way through life thrusting their hard shopping baskets at defenceless men . |
| 6 | Her talons grasped the mesh of the cage , her beak strained at the front as if she knew that something important was happening . |
| 7 | Zurachina looked as if she thought that the observation was unnecessary . |
| 8 | The old woman stared at him and her eyes were bright and piercing and the silver thimble had fallen to the lap of her dress , and her fists were clenched now as if she searched for a memory , and her husband watched her anxiously as if he witnessed that she was at war within herself . |
| 9 | The lectures which he delivered in America on this visit are not of crucial critical significance and , like other addresses of the same period , they are chiefly remarkable for the fact that he felt able to talk at some length about himself and his work — as if he realized that audiences came to see him , rather than hear anything he might care to say . |
| 10 | He spoke with awe and fear in his voice , and as if he believed that only Minch herself among all of them could know and understand what might be in Men 's minds . |
| 11 | He repeated this over and over , as if he believed that it is only " they " whoever they were , told him how to act , then everything would be all right . |
| 12 | Alexei laughed as if he knew that Jehan was being deliberately discouraging . |
| 13 | as if he knew that he only had to put his arms around her for her to immediately surrender , to succumb , a willing victim , to the force of his dark enchantment . |
| 14 | He smiled as if he knew that had been a struggle to get out but he did n't make it more difficult for her . |
| 15 | Sidacai looked as if he thought that the question was unnecessary . |
| 16 | The man looked around him again , as if he expected that they were being watched . |
| 17 | ‘ It was almost as if he understood that we were trying to help him . ’ |
| 18 | It was almost as if he felt that they had made a fool of him in 1945 – 46 and was trying to atone for his naiveté . |
| 19 | When he spoke it was in a barely audible voice as if he feared that his words would carry beyond the four walls . |
| 20 | The policeman glanced upwards as if he hoped that the phone would give him an excuse to get rid of this intruder . |
| 21 | But the voice that had spoken waited , as if it knew that eventually Creggan would speak the truth . |
| 22 | It was as if it meant that you should love yourself as much as you should love other people . |
| 23 | There is a sort of agony in loving a man from a distance , especially as if you know that your own twin sister is as good as promised to him . |
| 24 | It is as if you discover that you spent £1000 last month , and therefore assume you will have to spend £1000 , or a bit more , next month , without ever wondering if some of your expenditure was wasted . |