Example sentences of "as if they [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people speak , and write , through a blur of adjectives as if they secretly knew that at heart of their hackneyed attempts to articulate is nothing . |
| 2 | Looking down at the river , she could see that the level had dropped , uncovering lines of bricks on the wall beneath them that looked as if they rarely saw the sun . |
| 3 | They both looked at me as if they strongly disapproved of me . |
| 4 | The problem is that it has the effect of actually reinforcing alienation , leaving room for that disjunction from the natural world which allows certain scientists to behave with inconceivable cruelty in their laboratories , which allows workers in slaughter houses to treat animals as if they simply had no rights or feelings at all , which allows people to justify all manner of exploitation , as if there were no moral obligations or injunctions upon us whatsoever . |
| 5 | He felt uncomfortable , uneasy at the way the Prince and Gaveston hardly spared them a glance whilst their companions at table treated them as if they simply did not exist . |
| 6 | And there were other tubes and other wires which crept under there , coupled to other tanks and other machines which quivered and laboured as if they also had some dim expectation of life . |
| 7 | They look as if they just heard bad news . |
| 8 | In this research , the investigator plans to study the possibility that adults on occasion expect young children to behave as if they already have an accurate conception of the process of communication , and that as a result of being expected to behave in this more mature way they come to realise why that behaviour is appropriate . |
| 9 | Oddly reassured by that very lack of sympathy , Luce followed him on legs that felt as if they hardly belonged to her . |
| 10 | The members of Gothic Voices ( on this occasion five , of whom two were singing with the group for the first time ) sing these melodies — often complex and wide-ranging — as if they really love them ; sensitive to the ebb and flow of the text , they nurture unexpected melodic twists , always allowing the structure to unfold and mould . |
| 11 | They ask about the short stories as if they really want them — none of that toffee-nosed ‘ we might conceivably ’ stuff we had last time . |
| 12 | They have the same wistful air as the terrace further back , as if they too had once entertained hopes of the lane going somewhere in life . |
| 13 | My fears were shared by youthful friends and even adult relatives at times seemed to ‘ chivvy ’ us along as if they too expected the ghost train to rush by . |
| 14 | But they were separated from al-Dhouri and Jassim by a line of soldiers clutching their Kalashnikovs , as if they fully expected the platform to be stormed by the pre-pubescent performers . |
| 15 | Yeah , but I thought , sounded as if they only did tho , those that you blow up and this is n't , you can put it in , in the wash or anything . |