Example sentences of "as if [pers pn] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that trance-like state we drift apart , still staring , but when I turn aside it 's as if we snapped a silken cord . |
| 2 | ‘ It looks as if we have a few customers waiting out there , ’ she managed lightly . |
| 3 | While many tests may have high face validity — that is , they may look as if they measure a particular linguistic ability — this is not a sufficient justification for using test data as a basis for clinical or educational decision-making . |
| 4 | It might be thought reasonable to treat all cases of NSU so diagnosed when they initially present to the clinic as if they had a sexually transmitted disease and prescribe appropriate antibiotics , and , indeed , this is common practice in most clinics . |
| 5 | In the second panel the same people , considerably sobered and looking as if they had a serious hangover , were being led away by the classic medieval figure of Death , a grisly skeleton in a black robe and cowl , who rather reminded Preston of an old schoolmaster he had known called Mr Pilkington . |
| 6 | ‘ Do n't look so wistful — there will be another time for Bamburgh , ’ he said quietly , and she wondered why he was talking as if they had a future together . |
| 7 | What they need is centralized control as if they had a single mainframe . |
| 8 | They were silent as she walked through the door to the dining room , as if they had a secret . |
| 9 | He was acting as if they had a settled relationship , but they had n't . |
| 10 | Oliver liked things to be finished and shiny and to look as if they cost a lot . |
| 11 | The term ‘ gouger ’ is flexible in that it refers to known criminals as well as others who look or act as if they have a potential for crime and trouble . |
| 12 | It 's as if they have a life of their own . ’ |
| 13 | Waitresses do a scuttling trot around , with smiles on their faces as if they have a bent coat-hanger wedged into their mouths to hold the shape . |
| 14 | Jim Smith 's Cup-fighters were hoping to rekindle a fading promotion play-off challenge and they were forced to put out what was , on paper , their strongest team , even though many of them looked as if they needed a rest after their efforts at Highbury . |
| 15 | as if she cared a damn about his social life — or however many luscious blondes he went out with ! |
| 16 | With a gesture almost roguish , as if she slapped a hand away , she tossed the frills back before lifting the lid off the biscuit box ( velvet-covered and braided ) that stood on her bedside table , to choose from its varied collection the biscuits most suitable for breakfast two crackers and two water biscuits . |
| 17 | It was as if she had a hot line to the Devil . |
| 18 | Her voice sounded slurred and she mumbled her words , as if she had a mouthful of marbles . |
| 19 | And she 'd give me that look , like at first , half wary , half defiant , as if she had a secret to defend from me . |
| 20 | It did n't feel as if she had a body at all . |
| 21 | She burned and throbbed as if she had a fever . |
| 22 | If she found it stretching credulity that a meeting between them was n't inevitable she 'd always fiercely denied to herself that she had any interest in seeing him again , so why should she be feeling so shivery and hot , almost as if she had a fever ? |
| 23 | She looked as if she had a lapful of tropical bird feathers . |
| 24 | She looked at him , smiling , her eyes bright as if she had a secret . |
| 25 | So had every other beautiful girl , of course ; but Jane Ashton was now not only the first beautiful girl Killion had kissed good night , she was the first to kiss him in return , and kiss him as if she had a great deal to give as well as take . |
| 26 | The threat of exposure hanging over her , so close that she had dwelled since — since when ? — as if she inhabited a thick cloud of suffocating fog . |
| 27 | ‘ I wonder why she came , though ? ’ he said , ‘ she does n't look as if she needed a free meal . |
| 28 | She looked as if she needed a pillow ; her head was thrown back awkwardly . |
| 29 | She held her hands out as if she held a sub-machine-gun and went ‘ Rat-tat-tat-ta . ’ |
| 30 | It seemed as if he received a shorter term in jail because he was a doctor . |