Example sentences of "[conj] it were [art] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She repeated the word softly , testing the sound of it on her lips , as if it were a word she had never heard before . |
| 2 | There is a particular kind of French personality who always pronounce the word francais as if it were a football he is heading towards less privileged mortals . |
| 3 | For if it were the man himself would crumble . |
| 4 | The famous trip to Europe , which Lear had constantly referred to in his letters as if it were an experience which united him with the great ornithologist , became the bitter disappointment of a friendship manqué . |
| 5 | It is no longer fashionable to discuss the Industrial Revolution as if it were an event which happened between 1760 and 1840 . |
| 6 | In fact , facing page 119 , there it was , with Westerby duly posing in front as though it were an animal he had just hunted to its death . |
| 7 | As though I did not exist ; as though it were an automaton who cleared brambles and counted magpies . |
| 8 | In chapter nine of The Form Rolle uses this Jesus prayer to recapitulate the whole progress in love he has so far described — it becomes as it were the tool which shapes and conveys his understanding of redemption : The prose is orchestrated to a climax . |