Example sentences of "as if [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So she looked at me as if to say well I have n't got one at all . |
| 2 | He just glanced over again , as if to say OK , but not a word was spoken . |
| 3 | Now well I 'm sitting there , Robert 's my customer and like I 'm sitting there and he comes out with this fabulous spiel , right , as this objection , right , that was word perfect and he 's sitting there after he 's finished it as smug as anything and looking at me as if to say so what are you gon na do about that then ? |
| 4 | Feldstein the dissident , Chernayev the thief , Poshekhonov the fraud , all reached for the Englishman as if to draw out some spark of friendship . |
| 5 | He turned as if to move away . |
| 6 | The young man nodded and made as if to move on but John wanted to expunge that mean unspoken and unmeant threat . |
| 7 | John smiled and glanced quickly at Ianthe , as if to see how she was taking it . |
| 8 | He stopped when he saw the car and made as if to turn back . |
| 9 | From an idealised , spiritual love for Kee which always had something sickly and perverse about it , he plunged into the lightless sub-world of labour , submerging himself in its mean and desperate poverty , as if to kill off once and for all the romanticism which had brought him nothing but pain . |
| 10 | He had actually held up his hands as if to ward off something evil . |
| 11 | Everyone was very friendly , and there was much jolly laughter as we passed the frankfurters and Quigley made as if to ward off the evil eye . |
| 12 | It was also carved on to a number of the walls , as if to ward off Evil . |
| 13 | Her eyes swam and she put out a hand as if to ward off the blows . |
| 14 | No recording of Jenkins 's music had been available for years before the Thorofon CD , and now this Astrée issue comes onto the market , as if to underline how huge a gap in the recorded repertoire that was . |
| 15 | as if to underline how huge the task of changing public opinion would be , and of making people see that the hostages mattered , it had been spelled out in a television programme I had taken part in the previous November when Mary and I had been in Paris . |
| 16 | Even so , he lit the lamp on his desk , put a fresh cigarette in his holder and firmly affixed his monocle — all as if to reassure himself , as if to confirm both his identity and his authority : Colonel Eric R. S. Windsor , DSO , Colonel-in Chief of His Majesty 's 16th Infantry Division , currently stationed in Cambridge Barracks , Cork . |
| 17 | The fountain of sparks died ; he staggered , swinging his head hack and forth as if to drive out the pain . |
| 18 | She felt her eyes close , as if to block out everything : the embarrassment , the shock , the deep sense of shame . |
| 19 | She was on her knees above him , back arched , body shaking , hands held to her head as if to block out pain . |
| 20 | Aunt Louise 's eyes were over-bright and she tried to pass her hand across them as if to brush away a cobweb . |
| 21 | Tumbleweed hesitated and turned as if to go back and I put my arm round his shoulders . |
| 22 | Chen saw how the man came across , wary of Karr , eyeing the big man up and down as if to assess how much trouble he might be . |
| 23 | And as if to point up this change Bukharin declared , ‘ Our Red Army , which is to an enormous extent composed of peasants , is the greatest cultural machine for the re-education of the peasantry , which leaves it with a new mentality . ’ |
| 24 | as if to point out that they were not entirely alone , a man with a white terrier came towards them from behind the sandhills . |
| 25 | He ignored the raw , splintered mess , and leaned forwards as if to kiss where her lips had been . |
| 26 | The style of the book is almost cinematic , with images unfolding before the viewer reads the " titles " , as if to bear out Avedon 's remark " I do n't think the West of these portraits is any more conclusive than the West of John Wayne " . |
| 27 | As the Men carried Minch away Creggan looked desperately about him as if to seek out some inspiration for the action and sign of hope that her final words had seemed to wish to invoke . |
| 28 | He turned as if to walk away , but Alexei spoke at last . |
| 29 | On Lan 's other side Tam shot an accusing look at Kim from time to time as if to make unmistakably clear to his father that he had done everything possible to dissuade Kim from his folly . |
| 30 | as if to make up for the early deaths of her sisters , she lived to a ripe old age , dying in the Almshouses at Dorking on 4 November 1855 , aged eighty-seven . |