Example sentences of "[prep] if they [was/were] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon the marching changed to slithering as the patrol hit a scree that propelled them forward as if they were on ball-bearings and they came tumbling headlong to the bottom . |
| 2 | I mean personally I think one of the difficulties in the colleges is that they do still have a sense of being at schools , and when you have an atmosphere which is like school you 're tacitly given people permission to act as if they were at school , and so we have a and that activity may not always be very adult , so we have to find a way of changing the environment of the colleges . |
| 3 | This they achieved by switching off their tacographs as they were loading making it look as if they were at rest . |
| 4 | This they achieved by switching off their tachographs as they were loading , making it look as if they were at rest . |
| 5 | THESE FOUR boxes of action highlights from Pickwick enable the devout to exhume the 1992 World Cup , feeling it again as if they were in attendance in Australasia once more or seeing much of it for the first time if sleep and work schedules got in the way during those 33 hectic days and nights . |
| 6 | " You need it , sweetheart , " it was the lover 's voice , yielding , as if they were in bed . |
| 7 | She 'd snatched them away as if they were in danger , and afterwards burst into Quentin 's study to have her scene . |
| 8 | Accordingly , accompanied by Emil and a few of the others , I carried my bags to the coffee shop where everyone immediately ordered huge carrot cakes , the speciality of the house , as if they were in fear of famine . |
| 9 | With the rising and falling of the blaze , the stone faces showed as if they were in torment . |
| 10 | Not as if they were in pain but very quietly and evenly , as if out of some dreadful and hopeless despair . |
| 11 | But this silliness does not derive from what I claimed about what it means to have successful thoughts : it derives from our habit of regarding individual thoughts as if they were like sentences . |
| 12 | Apart from looking into market deals and reports of cheques being repeatedly endorsed and passed around as if they were like cash , Inland Revenue investigators have been checking if farmers have undedeclared Government grant payments . |