Example sentences of "as if [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I feel as if we failed that man somewhere , ’ she said a little later as together with David and Martin Foulds she watched the ambulance leave the factory . |
| 2 | Co-producer Robert Relea hit back : ‘ It 's not as if we like working nights . ’ |
| 3 | It looks as if we like bashing our heads against a wall . |
| 4 | The partial pressure of component a is given by the ideal gas equation as If we repeat this for all the components and substitute these expressions into equation ( 7 ) we obtain By combining equations ( 8 ) and ( 9 ) we obtain The quantity is known as the mole fraction of component a . |
| 5 | " It does n't look as if we 've any choice , Mr Montgomery , " they young woman grinned . |
| 6 | I 'm sorry to say but I think that we 're talking about this education day at the beginning of October and I mean god knows we 've known this is coming for , it 's almost as if we 've got to the brink of , you know like lemmings just about to throw ourselves off the cliff and we do n't know why we 're going to do it . |
| 7 | It 's no as if we 've |
| 8 | ‘ Julian and I feel as if we 've always lived here . |
| 9 | It looks to me as if we 've forgotten how to retreat . |
| 10 | Er , well , the extra costs was two million a year er , and at the end of the first six months in the first year we 'd , we 'd , we 'd achieved a million extra revenue , so it looks as if we 've paid for it . |
| 11 | ‘ It looks as if we 've got you for resisting arrest as well , ’ he told her grimly . |
| 12 | I f I shall feel as if we 've been from here cos when I was first married we lived up round the next road . |
| 13 | you know it 's not as if we 've got vast amounts of extra luggage if you go on holiday and if so you just have to have the roof rack on . |
| 14 | I mean it is not as if we 've suddenly gone to totally new territory . |
| 15 | It is as if we put on our telescopes of the mind and magnify infinitely our habitual thoughts . |
| 16 | Why , when we all know that loneliness is a paralysing form of human misery , do we go on as if we thought that the deepest need of rational individuals was to be independent of one another ? |
| 17 | That may make it seem as if we thought each had specific dates and a definite content . |
| 18 | Once it was dark our spirits were again surprisingly high ; we all felt as if we belonged to a large family . |
| 19 | I often felt as if we came from different planets ! ’ |
| 20 | The three of us drift together , as if we met quite by chance near the water 's edge . |
| 21 | We acted as if we owned RCA , that we were RCA , that we had this corporation . |
| 22 | We studied the view as if we owned it ; |
| 23 | and walked around as if we owned the place . |
| 24 | There was an immediate rapport , as if we 'd been friends for years , and that happens only rarely . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I nodded , feeling a sense of relief , as if we 'd cleared some giant obstacle in a fog . |
| 27 | It looked as if we 'd travelled a very long way to get nowhere . |
| 28 | ‘ We were over the moon and had a great sense of achievement — as if we 'd done something terribly clever , ’ says Susi , who has just given birth to her first baby . |
| 29 | In the ground it was , as Strach said , as if we 'd won the cup or something . |
| 30 | A pick up a penguin right , great , come on then Jeff say something pardon it did n't pick that up he said bollocks , Jeff just said bollocks , that 's good oh if tonight we would , see me driving along in the car and got that on , oh no , it 'll be really funny , we 're gon na be sitting there going come on as if we 'd said that today |