"It ain't as if I didn't know how she'd feel."

VOA: special.2010.05.15

As if I would need any of that. (LOUD WHOOSH) As if you could outrun me!

VOA: standard.other

"We think because of the long term effect of the bone, there may be stress fractures that are not repairing and I think the bone is becoming brittle, and it's not exactly as if it occurs without any warning, but it occurs suddenly with minimal trauma."

VOA: standard.2010.03.14

I sat there as surprised as if he had thrown a rock in my face!

VOA: special.2009.02.14

I wanted to learn if it was as good as that of others.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

He told his son-in-law in December: "I will not say I would not serve if the good people were to be so unwise as to elect me."

VOA: special.2009.03.05

I paced the floor to and fro with heavy strides, as if excited to fury by the observations of the men -- but the noise steadily increased.

VOA: special.2009.02.02

He told Lincoln: "If you are as happy to get into the White House as I am to get out of it, you must be the happiest man alive!"

VOA: special.2009.07.30

We're all free agents. If I wanted to work as a professor, I could send out notes to a hundred different universities and say 'Does anyone want to hire me?'

VOA: special.2010.07.26

The wife of one of the men said Brown told her: "If a man stands between me and what I believe to be right, I will take his life as coolly as I would eat my breakfast."

VOA: special.2009.06.18

Probably,if I had to come down as either for or against it at this point, I would be against it,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

It's not as if you are looking at the Canada game as your first game,". "I mean those are important games.

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

You can find all kinds of influences, if you look hard enough you probably even hear the classical influences I had as a little,little boy."

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

"I think they've probably done as good, if not better job, of that than almost anybody and explored the possibility of some of the Yemeni detainees coming through that system,".

VOA: standard.2009.05.06