Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [prep] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To decorate a dish of smoked salmon , so beautiful in itself , with lettuce leaves , or to strew it with tufts of cress , is not to make that salmon which has cost 38s. a pound look as if it cost £3 , but to belittle it so that you begin to feel it is some bargain basement left-over which needs to be disguised . |
| 2 | His dark hair was thinning on top , but he had bushy side whiskers as if it had all slipped downwards , and his chin was a dimpled mound seeming to support an ever-smiling mouth . |
| 3 | This highly characteristic Fifties attitude makes Souza 's work look as if it belongs to a time rather than a place . |
| 4 | You make the pillowcase look as if it 's been washed with Brand X … |
| 5 | Amis in a radio interview has spoken of his war-time friendship at Oxford with Philip Larkin as if it had succeeded only in inverted terms . |
| 6 | He took to the Cobra position as if it had been designed for him . |
| 7 | The park lay in sodden neglect , sprawling over its rank acreage as if it had passed out . |
| 8 | With a heart beating as if it wanted to explode I looked at the two dead men ; I had never seen either of them before . |
| 9 | She was staring at the holiday roster as if it contained the meaning of life . |
| 10 | She walked towards the restaurant car-a long-legged girl with burnished hair and haunted grey eyes who gripped her school satchel as if it contained her life . |
| 11 | " You speak of the OTC market as if it does n't exist . |