Example sentences of "as if [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if already suffering from an excess of emotion , he left . |
| 2 | The waitress counts her tip as if reasonably expecting a million dollars for all the aggravation caused . |
| 3 | The orchestra ground to an embarrassed halt and the audience was completely silent , as if not believing it . |
| 4 | Half way to the door I swivelled and , as if simply following the script of this particular hangover , strolled back to the table and came to a halt with my hands in my pockets a few feet from Davis 's chair . |
| 5 | He fidgeted on his chair as if even thinking of them caused agitation . |
| 6 | One of their number said , as if consciously echoing Lenin , that the ultimatum ‘ destroys the brotherhood of the labouring classes of all nations , awakens manifestations of national animosity and obscures the class consciousness of the masses , in this manner favouring counter-revolution ’ . |
| 7 | Why did you lend him all that money ? ’ she demanded fiercely , as if somehow trying to put the blame on to him . |
| 8 | ‘ Maybe we should go to one of the hotels for tea or icecream ? ’ he asked fretfully , as if somehow sensing her withdrawal . |
| 9 | Then , feeling oddly guilty , as if just thinking about another man was betraying Paul , she pushed the romantic picture away . |
| 10 | Yet Rachaela saw the brief daylight ebb with a slight amusement , waiting for Ruth to appear punctually , as if just coming home from school . |
| 11 | One of the centrepages was curled over , as if tactfully averting the gaze of the girl spreadeagled there . |
| 12 | With nothing but a pole up his back and a drum wedged between his legs he bashed away with panache , as if frantically sewing up a leaking willie with giant needle and thread . |
| 13 | They were both gazing out of the window like homesick boys , as if desperately wishing to be elsewhere . |
| 14 | as if belatedly recalling his manners , he got out to circle the car , opened her door for her . |
| 15 | John Wain — another Movement novelist — is said to have voted Conservative as early as 1951 , before he ever published a book , as if silently laying down a marker for the future : but then that was in the days of Winston Churchill . |
| 16 | He pointed melodramatically , running a finger along in the air ahead of him , peering with burning eyes as if indeed watching an army of the dead , invisible to the rest of us . |
| 17 | The official blurb explains that the plaster figures ‘ stand as if boldly forging ahead , their eyes fixed on our motherland 's beautiful future ’ . |
| 18 | I seized that bloody pole , swinging the barge round even as I felt the water beneath me slop and gurgle as if maliciously laughing at me , waiting to embrace us in its frozen grasp . |
| 19 | His arms held her tightly to him as if never wanting to let go . |
| 20 | Eochaid was watching Thorfinn , as if hardly noting what was being said . |
| 21 | Directly to his left the flint walls of Martyr 's Cottage glistened like marbles in the afternoon sun and less than half a mile to the north , set back among the Californian pines which fringed that part of the coast , was the dull square cottage rented by Hilary Robarts , a neatly proportional suburban villa incongruously set down on this bleak headland and facing inland as if resolutely ignoring the sea . |
| 22 | I was n't so overwhelmed , though , that I forgot to raise a finger to one of the jewels in my headband , as if idly adjusting the band itself . |
| 23 | He broke off in mid-sentence , as if suddenly realising who he was talking to , and abruptly left her for Mary Deare . |
| 24 | as if suddenly remembering where he was and why he had come , he resumed . |
| 25 | ‘ Go home with Lucy and get some rest , and do n't worry your pretty head about the business , ’ her father added with a slightly guilty air , as if suddenly recalling her convalescent status . |
| 26 | Then he frowned , as if suddenly making the connection . |
| 27 | Lancaster grunted , as if suddenly waking from a reverie . |
| 28 | He started the engine at once and pulled impatiently out from the kerb , as if still trying to shake off that introspective question of his . |
| 29 | When he had finished , she said nothing for more than a minute , but continued to stare at him , as if still seeking the assurance she had hoped his account would supply . |
| 30 | as if abruptly realising that she was seeing too much , Julius 's eyes went blank again , deliberately shutting her out . |