Example sentences of "as [subord] it [be] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You do n't imagine I 'm going to allow him to come and go here as if it 's his own home , do you ? ’ |
| 2 | We 're not yet a police lab even if you do walk in and out of the place as if it 's your own kitchen . |
| 3 | ‘ Gavin used the Welfare account as if it was his own money , ’ Mr Georges said . |
| 4 | Figure 1 A reed warbler feeding a young cuckoo as if it were its own offspring ( Photo : I. Wyllie ) . |
| 5 | It was necessarily disturbed when the United States treated the United Nations as if it were its own exclusive " club " . |
| 6 | Harriet puts her head on Jen 's shoulder , her long straight strange hair fanning across Jen 's breast as if it were her own hair , and her own short , coppery/gingery hair stops standing on end at the ghost in the wood and begins to flow loose . |
| 7 | ’ Melissa was about to point out that Angy 's tender heart had not prevented her from flaunting Rick 's ring as if it were her own , nor had she intervened to protect Barney from hurt , but she merely said , ‘ It was enough to make anyone angry . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You do n't mind my using the house as if it were my own ? ’ he cried with as much boisterousness as he could muster , waving the bottle like a flag . |
| 9 | Clutching his sleeve , she said : ‘ Nahum , we could adopt a child and bring it up as if it were our own . ’ |
| 10 | He loved the child , and was endlessly kind and thoughtful towards it , as fond of it as if it were his own . |
| 11 | He had paid it as if it were his own . |
| 12 | Until the two old ladies with their umbrellas shattered his dream , he had walked through the streets of Brighton as if it were his own kingdom , doffing his flat cap to passers-by who could n't help hearing him coming from two blocks away . |
| 13 | How dared this man think that he could just move back into her life — after five long years — and then begin treating this place as if it were his own home ? |