Example sentences of "as if [pers pn] be [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In drama we act as if we were someone else , or as if we were ourselves in an other situation . |
| 2 | He 's pulled our strings as if we were his puppets , and there I was , all ready to touch you up just as he wanted . |
| 3 | In drama we act as if we were someone else , or as if we were ourselves in an other situation . |
| 4 | Reading some sections of the media recently , children of lone parents are talked about as as if they 're nothing but a drain on state resources . |
| 5 | She glanced at the other two and , not waiting for a reply , she went on , ‘ He 's so caring , he treats them as if they 're his personal friends … ’ |
| 6 | Rawls often writes of individuals ' conceptions of the good as if they are their views of the good life for themselves . |
| 7 | ‘ To Kill a Mockingbird ’ is set in the Deep South of Alabama , where the majority of white men will not accept Negroes into a white society and it 's not only that the Negroes do not live amongst the whites , in some cases they are treated as if they are nobody . |
| 8 | The outer form and the behaviour of the creature are thus always at one — man does not try to flap his arms and fly , any more than an insect seeks out the sex pheromones of another species as if they were its own . |
| 9 | This would allow the Spanish airline to market the American services as if they were its own . |
| 10 | And Maisie would stand like some artist 's model , exhibiting her diseases as if they were her only claim on him . |
| 11 | She 'd wiped their tears , she 'd wiped their botties , and she 'd loved them as if they were her own . |
| 12 | She ran , fleeing the demons that pursued her , dragging in great gasps of cold air as if they were her last . |
| 13 | Until these larger sets can be made in production quantities , electronics companies will probably push miniature sets as if they were what the consumer wanted all along . |
| 14 | Keynes 's refutation of this theory as a description of labour market behaviour in a money using economy , and this formulation of a theory of labour market adjustment which was more appropriate to such an economy , have been glossed over by Friedman and his followers as if they were nothing more than minor , rather idiosyncratic footnotes in the history of economic ideas . |
| 15 | Within this conception those called upon to exercise legal judgment must be able to recognize the claims of others as if they were their own . |
| 16 | They had to pull their weight , but they brought up one or two who had lost their parents just as if they were their own children . |
| 17 | So I told them what I would do , but once again I 've never been in the situation but this is what I 'll do , said as if they were me own parents make them as comfortable as I could while I 'll cleaned up and give them a bed bath or if they could shower , shower them and erm and get everything back to normal as quick as possible , fine , that were all fine she , and then as , as I got up from it they all said thanks a lot Joy it has been great you really have been great you 've made it easy , we 've got an easy day in front thanks to you , you know you 're bubbly and all this and then when she phoned me on the Sunday she said hello Joy it 's Sue here and I , I said will you let me know one way or the another cos I said I hate being left up in the air |
| 18 | ( Compare Alice Fell , The Solitary Reaper , and many other poems where Wordsworth assimilates other people 's experiences and tells them as if they were his own . ) |
| 19 | Deal with children as if they were his or her own . |
| 20 | He had killed one girl and now , because another was missing , they had come as if he had called them , as if they were his slaves . |
| 21 | Advocacy means representing and pursuing someone else 's interests as if they were your own . |
| 22 | I well remember the late Dr James Durno saying to me : ‘ Ian , look after the stock as if they were your own ’ . |
| 23 | Relating , you form a , a bond basically between you and the customer , that 's why you sell well , cos you gel well with your customers , there 's empathy there , you 've got to come across as caring and sharing , but you 've got ta ask questions and you listen to the answers , right , you 've got to basically treat their problems as if they were your own , do you know what I 'm saying to you ? |
| 24 | The Novel gives a familiar relation of such things as pass every day before our eyes , such as may happen to our friends , or to ourselves , and the perfection of it is , to represent every scene in so easy and natural a manner , and to make them appear so probable , as to deceive us into a persuasion ( at least while we are reading ) that all is real , until we are affected by the joys or distresses , of the persons in the story , as if they were our own . |
| 25 | I ran to your reviews as if they were my own and felt more dismay and indignation than if they had been . |
| 26 | Its faults I can cherish as if they were my own . |
| 27 | The rain fell against his face as he watched her march out into the dusk , narrow shoulders pulled resolutely back as if she were someone who knew exactly where she was going and what she thought about things . |
| 28 | Antoinette was all I had , and I loved her as if she were my own . |
| 29 | He was , as her mother had said for twenty years , the laziest codder God ever put breath into , but Claire loved him , and he loved her as if she were his own . |
| 30 | She treated him as if she were his prep-school matron . |