Example sentences of "it be [prep] if [indef pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With Caliban it 's as if somebody made him drink a whole bottle of whisky . |
| 2 | It is as if somebody had slipped an extra sheet of paper between the pages of the book which now , at one point consists of perhaps a million pages , at another of a million and one . |
| 3 | Herriot quite skilfully opens up with one or two of the more moving tales , and stitches it all back together again , quite painlessly , but when you wake up at the end , it is as if nothing had happened . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ In some areas it is as if nothing has changed , and in other areas there are some quite bizarre decisions . ’ |
| 5 | It is as if everyone had decided to follow to the letter the advice sent out to UDF candidates by Jean-Pierre Raffarin , the centre-right party 's expert on political marketing . |
| 6 | But inside it was as if something had sucked out furniture , leaving the spirit of the house intact . |
| 7 | Again it was as if something stared through them from the other side . |
| 8 | It was as if everything had suddenly come clear . |
| 9 | God , it was as if nothing had ever happened between them . |
| 10 | It was as if someone had been trapped inside and had kicked and beaten the door — perhaps without success — until the power had gone and they had been able to drive back down the hill . |
| 11 | It was as if someone had suddenly turned off the sound . |
| 12 | It was as if someone had asserted that it was inconceivable that a mammal should lay an egg and then a duck-billed platypus had turned up . |
| 13 | It was freezing inside the huge building ; it was as if someone had sucked every ounce of warm air from the interior and replaced it with icy breath . |
| 14 | It was as if someone had decided to repaint the Parthenon in pillar-box red . |
| 15 | It was as if someone had wound him up and released the key , like the spring of a watch . |