Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [prep] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Esther says of Mrs Jellyby : her voice impressed my fancy as if it had a sort of spectacles on too Ch 8 and of Mr Turveydrop : |
| 2 | Seventy-five years later , whenever I feel the sun on my face , it springs as fresh in my mind as if it occurred yesterday . |
| 3 | I stared stupidly at the bag in my hand as if it had just been dropped there from a helicopter . |
| 4 | Somehow his mother could shut out the unpleasant from her mind as if it had never existed and she had shut out the Worm as successfully as she had shut out everything else . |
| 5 | She could n't resist embroidering the description , seeing it all in her mind as if it had really happened . |
| 6 | Still smiling from her thoughts , she placed her hands on his broad , muscular shoulders , feeling the strength of his hands lifting down her body as if it weighed nothing at all . |
| 7 | The children stared ravenously at her dress as if it had been spun out of sugar . |
| 8 | Once she was inside his trousers , her slim fingers caressed his sleeping organ until it jumped in her hand as if it had been bitten . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , it 's very primitive , ’ she apologised , and described their scullery as if it had been converted . |
| 10 | She parked , suddenly chill , picked up her bag as if it held eggshells . |
| 11 | I was put off it from an early age because it used to be used in the by-lines in the Daily Telegraph and it sort of and it looked a bit wrong . |
| 12 | drinking his beer as if it had gone flat , she thought , seeing him before he saw her . |
| 13 | But if he had first dropped the razor , why should it be lying on top of the blanket and so conveniently close to his hand as if it had slipped from the opening fingers ? |
| 14 | However , when Dickerson says shooting Malcolm X was ‘ like a holiday ’ , it becomes clear that there 's maybe a good reason for keeping his hand in when it comes to his old discipline . |
| 15 | Obviously he was the kind of man who could expunge an unsatisfactory incident from his memory as if it had never happened , and get on with living in the present . |
| 16 | The smile was still on his face as if it had never left . |