Example sentences of "[prep] if it [was/were] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no difference between a chick that was totally full of worms and could n't have handled any more worms , but still as it were , behaved as if it was on the point of starvation , and a chick that was really hungry , had in fact , observation shows that , what parents do when they come back with , with the food is , very often they , they probe the throats of the chicks with their beaks , to see which one 's got much most room before they actually put the food in . |
| 2 | Alexei nodded as if it was of no consequence . |
| 3 | Then she lay back on her pillow and they looked at each other as if it was for the first time . |
| 4 | Nicandra smiled and acknowledged the obeisance as if it was from a dog doing its trick . |
| 5 | Despite the scenery , however , my shin felt as if it was in a red-hot clamp , with someone turning the screw . |
| 6 | When the Alternative Service Book was threatening the absolutism of the Book of Common Prayer a few years ago , the Book of Common Prayer was being spoken of as if it were on a par with Holy Writ . |
| 7 | I thought it better to pretend I had forgotten the incident , as if it were of no importance . |
| 8 | Claudia said , trying to sound as if it were of no real interest to her . |
| 9 | To reject the mythological character of much of the Bible is to run the serious risk of looking for the truth of scripture as if it were like the kernel in the nut , and ending up with nothing but the shell . |
| 10 | So it seems to be about school anxiety and exam anxieties and so , but those are very common kinds of dreams , but , but very often when you you find they 're actually about the present , they 're about some recurrent anxiety or conflict in the present which is masquerading as if it were in the past because your associations of what 's going on are connected with the past er one way or another . |