Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] if it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Because each shaft is slightly thinner , hair starts to feel as if it has less body and volume , ’ says trichologist Philip Kingsley . |
| 2 | But that 's probably what 'e would 've acted like if it 'ad been 'im , y'know ? ’ |
| 3 | But that 's probably what 'e would 've acted like if it 'ad been 'im , y'know ? ’ |
| 4 | We have tended to speak as if it existed in some obvious and consistent way in higher education , but as some of the above quotations pointed out , the undergraduate curriculum may be influenced by other manifestations of organized knowledge , in particular research and professional practice . |
| 5 | I should prefer the headland without it but it 's beginning to look as if it had a right to be there . ’ |
| 6 | Her ability to be cold and untouchable seemed to have gone as if it had never been . |
| 7 | From what Wayne had been able to see of her left eye , it had looked as if it had a couple of drops of blood in it . |
| 8 | Even Scouse 's latrine had disappeared as if it had never been there . |
| 9 | It was the first physical contact between them for four years , but for just an instant it had seemed as if it had only been yesterday when she had last touched him . |
| 10 | Almost all her errors here were regularisations : for example , she read have as if it rhymed with ‘ cave ’ , lose as if it rhymed with ‘ hose ’ , own as if it rhymed with ‘ down ’ , and steak as if it rhymed with ‘ beak ’ . |
| 11 | She stared up from the ground , her wings hanging loose as if she no longer had strength to hold them to her body , her left wing seeming bent as if it had once been broken . |