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The following week, Ron listed several changes he said I needed to make, as if he were some sort of petite Professor Higgins molding my coarse Eliza Doolittle.

From Salon • Oct. 16, 2016

Friends mean well, or make as if they do.

From Time Magazine Archive

This time Bigwig decided to make as if to go.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

Yea, and if they be helpful to one person in a hundred, they make as if they could cure every one.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by Bunyan, John

So my brother began to make as if he ate, whilst the other said to him, "Eat and note the excellence of this bread and its whiteness."

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I by Payne, John




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