Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun] [prep] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | push the disk in if it 's a floppy disk version , if you have n't got a floppy disk er it 's got its own hard disk , you do n't need a floppy |
| 2 | ‘ You do n't mind my using the house as if it were my own ? ’ he cried with as much boisterousness as he could muster , waving the bottle like a flag . |
| 3 | It would seem that everything between them has been ruined — but no , they decide to treat the day as if it had never been ; and when he has gone Emily picks up her goose-quill pen and again writes ‘ Dear Edmund ’ . |
| 4 | Some pupils observed doing the practical task attempted to treat the charge as if it was a continuous scale , but there was no firm evidence of this happening in the written test version . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , Ian , ’ he said , stroking the beard as if it were a favourite pet that had curled up on his chin , ‘ I think we have established incontrovertibly that you are an eidetiker of sorts . |
| 6 | It was a dazzling Saturday afternoon , and the park was full of contented people : children stood knicker-deep in bliss , stroking the paddling-pool as if it were some great tame animal ; attendant mothers soaked in the sun ; lovers were prone and entranced on the grass . |
| 7 | Couville sat opposite him , elbows on his knees , cradling the cup as if it was the Holy Grail . |
| 8 | On the first one , I was making the record and I broke a string on my Firebird and could n't be bothered changing strings , and so I plugged the Lazer in and it sounded so good that I kept using it . |
| 9 | The man is moving up and down over Andy , his backside looks large and white against the green of the ferns ; he still has the rucksack on and it looks weird , frightening and comical at the same time . |
| 10 | There was something obscurely over-energized about her , quite unlike his old succulently lazy wife , and she had begun to clean the house as if it were a sin of the flesh . |
| 11 | The court sidestepped the question of whether it was a contract of sale or for services , by holding that , whichever it was , there was an implied term of the contract that the goods should be reasonably fit for the purpose for which they were intended . |
| 12 | He could picture the scene as if it were yesterday . |
| 13 | There has been more expensive consultation with head teachers and the governors than has been possible er before and I hope the result of that it is reflected in the pages that you have in front of you . |
| 14 | I 'd heard Dad and Eva in the bar analysing the performance as if it were Miles Davis 's farewell appearance . |
| 15 | The small khat traders from Djibouti , who travel the route as if it were the local bus , shrieked and angrily rearranged their shawls and robes . |
| 16 | Yet in such circumstances the insider 's account has a potential to combine ‘ action anthropology ’ , ‘ applied anthropology ’ , and ‘ pure anthropology ’ , to create a fully semantic analysis ; and this raises the question of whether it will then be possible to publish and be damned ? |
| 17 | In concluding his discussion of corporate crime , Box raises the question of whether it can be justified to send thousands of people to prison each year because they are too poor to pay fines ( in 1981 , 20,000 males were imprisoned for defaulting on fine payments ) when their crime is trivial in the extreme in comparison with corporate crime . |
| 18 | This raises the question of whether it is necessary to represent objects at the single cell level . |
| 19 | The section does not of itself confer a power to withhold information in the proceedings themselves , but an application under the section necessarily raises the question of whether it is proper to do so . |
| 20 | This raises the question of whether it is possible to make any distinction between black holes , beyond differences in mass . |
| 21 | Nicandra smiled and acknowledged the obeisance as if it was from a dog doing its trick . |
| 22 | Frau Nordern took the phone again , bellowed ‘ Karl ! ’ several decibels louder than Omi , shook the phone as if it were a recalcitrant child , listened again , then put it down . |
| 23 | The Z88 's line editor may then be used to edit the line as if it had just been typed in . |
| 24 | ‘ The reader interprets the text as if it had been written in his own language , culture and time … . |
| 25 | It lets existing Windows programs recognize the pen as if it were a mouse . |
| 26 | Your treating the question as if it did n't exist is no help to you , no one ever got away by playing the ostrich . ’ |
| 27 | Lady Grubb had fallen easily into the habit of behaving to her children as if she were some doggedly snobbish godmother , inviting them home every few months to look into their marriage prospects and treating the occasion as if it were a country weekend that put her to a lot of trouble , though her house was actually in the middle of London and fully staffed with unhappy au-pair girls . |
| 28 | When he spoke of himself with evident authority as ‘ the senior Vietnam veteran on active duty ’ you could read the subtext as if it was in neon : if I am prepared to give my commander-in-chief unquestioned respect , so should you . |
| 29 | In this chapter we discuss the layer as if it were horizontally infinite , and thus consider experiments with large aspect ratio — accumulation of observational experience and theoretical results being needed to decide what is large enough . |
| 30 | For the retrieved drift the float needs to have a top and bottom fixing , otherwise every pull on the main line will take the float under if it is attached by the bottom end only . |