Example sentences of "as if [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are often advertised in the newspapers as ‘ bomb proof ! ’ ; no matter what occurs they will just continue their mild sweet way as if nothing had ever happened . |
| 2 | The weeds that we 'd uprooted in the morning were shrivelled and brown ; the earth looked as if nothing had ever lived in it . |
| 3 | Then I washed and dried the two beer-mugs and the three vases , and put them back in their normal places , as if nothing had ever happened . |
| 4 | On shore the remaining sheep were released with their new stud ram , whereupon they scattered over the grazing as if nothing had ever disturbed their tranquillity . |
| 5 | And for those people who are n't happy with what Stacker does anyway ( like our esteemed editor , for example ) , the package now comes with a useful Unstack feature so you can automatically return your system to its original state as if nothing had ever happened . |
| 6 | God , it was as if nothing had ever happened between them . |
| 7 | ‘ Not to the same degree , of course , but on Sunday there was the same feeling — as if we were continuing a conversation we were having yesterday , as if nothing had really changed . |
| 8 | When she told them about her mother 's letter he simply nodded , as if their going away was n't important . |
| 9 | I mean it is not as if we 've suddenly gone to totally new territory . |
| 10 | ‘ Julian and I feel as if we 've always lived here . |
| 11 | The three of us drift together , as if we met quite by chance near the water 's edge . |
| 12 | We 'd been discussing something else , and I said it out of the blue , but in my mind it was as if we 'd just been talking about Oliver , and the way she answered , as if she thought we 'd just been talking about Oliver too and there was n't any break in that conversation even though we 'd been through lots of different subjects in the meantime , made me feel very cheerful . |
| 13 | The two cases were laid side by side , and likenesses and differences were solemnly analysed as if we had here before us two ‘ real ’ , directly comparable objects . |
| 14 | You 're going to get more , it 's just as if we had just the big pipe from the |
| 15 | Christ knows , as if we had n't enough problems with the bloody Germans without Peter Young stirring them up. , The Sergeant marched off muttering loudly to himself , something about ‘ fucking bagpipes ' ’ and ‘ ‘ crazy colonels ' ’ . |
| 16 | as if we had n't enough troubles , now I read that the International Monetary Fund is worried that the world is running short of money ! |
| 17 | It was as if we had n't even parted really . |
| 18 | as if we had never met before and this was some silly party game . |
| 19 | We resumed conversation almost as if we had never left off . |
| 20 | It 's almost as if we think subconsciously well we 've got that little bit extra , let's go for it . |
| 21 | as if we have n't got enough in real life . |
| 22 | as if we have n't got enough of our own shoe-gazers facing redundancy or ( at best ) a future mini-cabbing , Hut have decided to import Boston 's Drop Nineteens . |
| 23 | After all , it 's not as if we have n't been forewarned . ’ |
| 24 | as if we have n't got enough on our plate ! |
| 25 | Mm , as if we have n't got enough . |
| 26 | We can live in a place ten years and within a fortnight of moving out it is as if we have never been there . |
| 27 | as if we flew slowly , their formations |
| 28 | ‘ Oh do go on , ’ Harriet hovers above , laughing , ‘ it 's not as if we did n't all know how virtuous you feel . ’ |
| 29 | as if we did n't have enough to think about , we also had the performance of the streaker , of course . |
| 30 | More likely , once established as a member of the literati and the venerable ‘ June 20th Group ’ , she felt a need to stress her difference from them — as if we did n't already know . |