Example sentences of "though it were [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a tendency for people to approach this matter as though it were one entirely for the shipyard concerned . |
| 2 | She swallowed convulsively , her hand tracing the door as though it were him . |
| 3 | His wife lay there so limp , so insubstantial , her black hair hanging down like the tail of a whipped animal and one white hand clutching his sleeve as though it were her only hold on life . |
| 4 | A small , terrified child clutching a satchel with both arms as though it were her most prized possession . |
| 5 | The first is a belief that education consists of the transmission of ‘ male ’ knowledge ; that is , that what is taught in schools is simply an account of male experience presented as though it were everybody 's experience . |
| 6 | I do not mean that there is not a valid distinction to be drawn between sense and sentence ; only that it is a mistake to think of the sense of an utterance as though it were something existing alongside the utterance but in the ethereal medium of the mind . |
| 7 | I prefer it that way , too , ’ says Palin , for all the world as though it were his idea . |
| 8 | Berndt said , as though it were his incisive wit alone which had arrived at the nub , ‘ The question is , what do we do with her in the meantime ? |
| 9 | He treated the assets comprised in the trust fund as his own and the trustee as though it were his mere agent or nominee . |