Example sentences of "as if [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We shouted our biological achievements at each other as if nothing else mattered . |
| 2 | He hoped fervently that they would go back to Florence and had dropped several hints in the hope of getting this information out of them , but the Captain was always concentrating on the job in hand as if nothing else mattered and the magistrate only smiled and nodded distractedly , his mind apparently elsewhere . |
| 3 | Sit down and read as if nothing else mattered . |
| 4 | as if nothing else had been said , he added : ‘ I know he 's unbalanced . |
| 5 | as if nothing bad happens here . ’ |
| 6 | When we act as if we already have certain qualities , experiences , relationships , opportunities or material possessions , we exert a powerful magnetic attraction for what we want to come into our lives . |
| 7 | You talk about achieving a balance between idealism and realism as if we already have a perfect one . |
| 8 | as if we just cum on it |
| 9 | as if we just did n't have the words for them . |
| 10 | Events in our own lives take on a pattern , as if we really were walking with God in our midst , guided continually by his presence . |
| 11 | When I decide to talk to you this way , my hours are spiked as if we really have a date planned . |
| 12 | as if we jus cum on it |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They both looked at me as if they strongly disapproved of me . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | When he had gone , Jessamy wandered into the small bedroom and sat down on the bed , because her legs felt as if they just would n't hold her up any longer . |
| 20 | They look as if they just heard bad news . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Oddly reassured by that very lack of sympathy , Luce followed him on legs that felt as if they hardly belonged to her . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She had fur-backed gloves and high brown-polished boots , not shoes but boots , and from what she could see of them they looked serviceable , as if they really were worn for walking . |
| 25 | ‘ What a beautiful young woman , ’ the young man thought , and , unaware of their own narcissism , they sat on either side of the pinewood table for all the world as if they really were twins , recently separated and reuniting in astonishment . |
| 26 | The clothes one wears , the ‘ room of one 's own ’ in the Sunday Supplements : one may , apparently , now ‘ try on ’ identities as if they really were clothes . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He saw that these tasty species were treated with respect by predators as if they too were distasteful to eat . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Dulé took a path westwards , following the shore , with Belmont on their right to the north and the burning ship behind them ; as they drew nearer , the sounds of battle made the ground shake , and when they stood still , the percussion of the fighting vibrated through them , as if they too were strings stretched over shells and struck . |