Example sentences of "as if [vb pp] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Davide caught his start when she leant over to give him a clean plate , how he set his chair straight and then , after a falter , flowed on , hammering the air with his clenched hands as he made his points , as if determined not to notice her . |
| 2 | Then he stroked her lightly , soothingly , as if determined not to make any sudden movements that would startle her . |
| 3 | He looked round the little nursery with a puzzled frown , as if disconcerted not to find a chair . |
| 4 | Rosa looked at the weapon piercing the heart of the Mother of God , around which her finely carved wooden hands , so lithe and brown they too might one day reach out and clasp hers , fluttered as if poised either to grasp it and draw it from her or plunge it in deeper . |
| 5 | Suspicion was apparent in every doubt-ridden defile of his expression , perhaps , it suddenly struck Harry , too apparent , as if blazoned there to conceal something else . |