Example sentences of "it [is] [prep] if you [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | what it 's for if you want one ? |
| 2 | It 's as if you go back into your childhood again . |
| 3 | It 's as if you 'd gone out into the bigger world and found out that it 's frightening or that it hurts , so you go home . |
| 4 | It 's as if you had been given not one vote , but a fifth of a vote . |
| 5 | As Theresa says , we usually try and censor them , try and say no , you know , leave that out , erm , it 's as if you had a kind of er censor sitting in your mind telling me , er telling you telling you er er , but it works with me too , erm what you can and can not say . |
| 6 | ’ It 's as if you prefer animals to people . ’ |
| 7 | it 's as if you 've been anaesthetized ! |
| 8 | And although we often hear about different jobs being of different sorts of status , they 're on a ladder of status , its for unemployed people the situation is very often as if you 've actually been kicked off this ladder and this is what people say when they describe being unemployed as being on the scrap heap and so on , it 's as if you 've been expelled from this particular world where erm people respect you for having a job and know that you 're contributing . |
| 9 | When the wind changes it 's as if you have never played the hole before . |
| 10 | It 's like if you had a doctor testing some aboriginal tribe for blood types — they would n't necessarily know what he was doing . ’ |
| 11 | It is as if you 'ave never gone out , yes . |
| 12 | It is as if you discover that you spent £1000 last month , and therefore assume you will have to spend £1000 , or a bit more , next month , without ever wondering if some of your expenditure was wasted . |