Example sentences of "[pron] as [subord] it were " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which made it the more regrettable that , in an age when abortion is pressed on one as if it were a free sample , she should have contrived to have four children in six years — unwanted , dubiously parented , ill cared for . |
| 2 | As the diesel train came in and people were already picking up suitcases from the platform Moran turned and kissed her as if it were a last good night to all the nights she had come to him . |
| 3 | He sat at the head of the table carefully scrutinising the document in front of him as if it were a religious text which he had to examine for scriptural errors . |
| 4 | But Nick said , ‘ Hallo , Mister Johnny , ’ and went up to him as if it were the easiest and most natural thing in the world . |
| 5 | And er I b I remember him as if it were yesterday . |
| 6 | It says the company 's marketing of Cisco is dangerously deceptive ; it induces unsuspecting teenagers to guzzle it as if it were a standard spritzer . |
| 7 | He received it as if it were a precious relic a saint had just blessed , and folded it carefully . |
| 8 | He let his left hand dangle , inspecting it as if it were an alien object . |
| 9 | As E. R. Curtius has pointed out , the pious attitude of the Romans to their past and their tendency to regard it as if it were a part of the present signified a kind of timelessness that excluded a genuinely historical view of the world and was very different from our sense of temporal perspective . |
| 10 | Although the limb is three-dimensional I will treat it as if it were two-dimensional and only consider position with respect to two axes , the antero-posterior axis which runs across the limb from digit 2 to digit 4 , and the long , or proximo-distal axis , which runs from the shoulder to the tip of the digits . |
| 11 | Since this became a standard feature of trusts it is not helpful to treat it as if it were dependent solely on an especially close regard for the testator 's intention . |
| 12 | I started the Food Addict 's Diet and stuck to it as if it were my shadow . |
| 13 | I have a Goniopora coral and my Clownfish lives in it as if it were an anemone , which is not doing it a lot of good . |
| 14 | He loved the child , and was endlessly kind and thoughtful towards it , as fond of it as if it were his own . |
| 15 | Water is becoming an increasingly scarce and valuable resource , and to charge for it as if it were free is beginning to look absurd . |
| 16 | I can remember it as if it were yesterday . |
| 17 | Windows will then ignore the line , treating it as if it were a comment . |
| 18 | Her facial skin had absorbed it as if it were the most expensive cosmetic cream . |
| 19 | The reporter picked up his empty lager can and contemplated it as if it were a work of art . |
| 20 | If the line is even , and your position is not critical , treat it as if it were starboard biased : that is , if you want to continue on starboard tack , join the bunch reaching down the line quite early . |
| 21 | The Leader , so he told his people , had lifted this distempered fog , this old corruption of Italy , and shone a bright blazing torch into the darkness of the bosses ' law , sweetening it as if it were a malarial swamp , squashing the mosquito lawyers and owners and priests breeding in it . |
| 22 | Lorre put his arm around the bush , soothing it as if it were a favourite niece in whose person he took an unhealthy interest . |
| 23 | He stroked her face , and then ran his fingers through her hair , looking at it as if it were made of some delicate , finely spun silk . |
| 24 | I ca n't shake a lingering vision of her straining eagerly against Casey , and I half blame her for it as if it were true . |
| 25 | She sat in it as if it were a throne , her back bolt upright inches away from its back , her black flannel skirts smoothed to disguise the fact that only one foot could be conventionally booted . |
| 26 | He had paid it as if it were his own . |
| 27 | His hands are gently folded over it as if it were just a bag of laundry on his lap . |
| 28 | His hand wanders constantly over it as if it were a fine thoroughbred thin-skinned horse . |
| 29 | The money that the Minister has provided has been recycled more times than I can count — although he talks about it as if it were new money — and it will run out in April , but there is still no commitment to replace it . |
| 30 | He discovered the cigarette in his hand and examined it as if it were a mistake . |