Example sentences of "and it was [prep] if [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Afterwards we sat down and talked about it and it was as if we were talking about someone else . |
| 2 | The moment Ferdinando left , with only the most cursory of farewells , to go by train and boat to Rome in advance of the main Party , the icy wind which had swept through the city most unexpectedly throughout October suddenly dropped and it was as if it were summer again . |
| 3 | So I did n't do any appropriate sociability there but I think what threw me off is cos I 'd already said Helen to Stephen , I know you and everything and it was as if it was part of the same thing |
| 4 | This place had bred romance after romance , and it was as if it was that she had felt tingling in the air all night , like a presence … |
| 5 | I told him and it was as if I 'd opened Heaven 's door . |
| 6 | The Forest boss said : ‘ I watched him in five-a-side training and it was as if he 'd never been away . |
| 7 | The musical policy of the label had changed — Oldfield thought punk rock ‘ absolutely disgusting music ’ — and it was as if he was no longer important to the label which he had done so much to build . |
| 8 | ‘ He stood watching them , ’ said Raynor , ‘ and it was as if he was searching for something . |
| 9 | Parin 's hand lay on an open book — one of the suras of the Yasa — and it was as if he drew reassurance and strength from it . |
| 10 | And it was as if she had glimpsed the celestial city knowing that she could never enter in . |
| 11 | She looked right at O and Boy when she said this and it was as if she was trying to scare them in particular , even as if she was trying to frighten them away from each other , as if she was saying , to them , and to all of us , this is what you have to go through , right ? |
| 12 | It seemed as bright as day out on the newly-laid forecourt and it was as if she 'd been caught by the lights , trapped and dazed like a rabbit on a long country road . |