Example sentences of "as if she [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't as if she even liked this man enough to care a damn for his opinion of her ! |
| 2 | There was a faint light of amusement in her eyes , but faint , as if she already regretted asking him . |
| 3 | He stared at her as if she already knew and was simply being obstructive . |
| 4 | Her voice , so savagely vindictive just a moment since , was suddenly tremulous and fearful — almost as if she already knew . |
| 5 | But it was as if she already knew , had known the moment that Sandra had pushed through those doors . |
| 6 | as if she ever paid it back ! |
| 7 | That girl in the photos did n't look as if she ever did more than totter from A to B on the highest of spindly heels . |
| 8 | ‘ When they broke up it was as if she never wanted to hear his name again — and I ca n't say I blame her . |
| 9 | ‘ It looks as if she never came back to the phone . |
| 10 | Another , eight months before the murder , reads : ‘ I wish Alison could just disappear as if she never existed ’ . |
| 11 | He says the present is so empty , it 's as if she never existed . |
| 12 | She felt as if she never wanted to go back into the house , as if it had tied her with a million cobweb fine lines , as the Lilliputians had trapped Gulliver , and that she could not get free . |
| 13 | She found Helen in the last one of all , sitting on the floor with her head on her knees , crying as if she never intended to stop . |
| 14 | She had a way of looking slightly obliquely at me , as if she knew something I did not — not anything to do with the role she was playing , but about life in general ; as if she too had been taking lessons from the stone head . |
| 15 | as if she too did not want him there , not then , not at that moment |
| 16 | Just a minute … ’ and finally , ‘ Well , I expect we 'll see you when you 've the time , ’ as if she only visited them twice a year . |
| 17 | ‘ Those were his words , ’ said Nancy , looking round uneasily , as if she still expected to see Sikes . |
| 18 | Every morning at Mass he sought her smiling eyes as if she alone understood his loneliness and felt for him . |
| 19 | It was then as if she hardly registered his arrival . |
| 20 | Sally stood still and gazed , glared at Daryl as if she suddenly hated her . |
| 21 | She smiles at me as if she really likes me . |
| 22 | It felt so right , as if she really belonged there , and she heard his dark laughter . |
| 23 | It was n't as if she really needed it , as if there was anyone she wanted to impress … |
| 24 | It looked , for all the world , as if she really did n't give a damn . |
| 25 | It was as if she really did n't know the answer . |
| 26 | Chopping as if she really means it , the sharp knife hacking through the orange flesh , the bits flying , almost as if it is something personal . |
| 27 | Between Newbury and Reading a middle-aged man had pressed his knee against hers , and she had had to change compartments , doing her best to look unconcerned about it , as if she often heaved her suitcase down from the rack halfway between stations to try the view farther down the train . |
| 28 | Soft , uncallused , as if she always wore hose and shoes . |