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We take things for granted, as if what we see has always been in the world we inhabit.It was as if the association with gods gave divine approval to the goods being sold.Was no cop going to touch him? He began to think of the Island as if it were as far away as a star.as if she won't consent! She's in love; egad, she's like a lovesick cat, and so on.“Fear not, Ernest,” said his heart, as if the Great Stone Face was whispering to him, “fear not, Ernest; he will come”.Here workers are known as 'hands', as if they had no identity other than as operators of machines.Then why are you in evening dress, my precious? As if you're paying a New Year's Eve visit! Well, you see, it's like this.It was as if there was nothing outside their lives that was important for us to know.Finally, the subject is asked to make a story about the person as if s/he was a character in a novel or play.” The advocate, Sergei, looked at the ragged, fawn-coloured overcoat of the suppliant, at his dull, drunken eyes, at the red spot on either cheek, and it seemed to him as if he had seen this man somewhere before.The peasants used the land for forty years and got accustomed to it as if it was their own, when it happened that.” The scarecrow of a beggar shrugged his shoulders, as if in perplexity, and went irresolutely after the cook.The security guard looked at them as if he wanted to stop them but he did not say anything.It was as if a thick leaden rod — no, a rod made of molten fire — was slowly but powerfully crushing my arm.I can make you a present of them myself, because they're mine! Your behaviour, Ivan assilevitch, is strange, to say the least! Up to this we have always thought of you as a good neighbour, a friend; last year we lent you our threshing-machine, although on that account we had to put off our own threshing till November, but you behave to us as if we were gypsies.