Example sentences of "this [noun sg] as [conj] it [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Write down this experience as if it were a dream . |
| 2 | I can imagine , when we have set up the institutions and signed in principle to the treaty , the Whips coming up to me and saying , ‘ Look here , Spicer , you are talking about this opt-out as if it were a real option . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | Freud seeks to use it in this book as if it were a purely biological concept , and furthermore , one which is found among all living organisms . |
| 5 | You have run after me to find out this thing as if it were just an answer to a riddle , or a joke which you remembered half of . |
| 6 | Moon walked this section as if it were HVS , only to fail just below the top . |