Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [subord] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't go on as if it had happened , ’ he said . |
| 2 | When she tried again the door gave suddenly as if it had decided of itself to let her in . |
| 3 | His face was thin and emaciated , drawn together as if it spent each night in some kind of linen press . |
| 4 | A hasty glance took in the gorgeous antique furniture crammed in as if it had been recently off-loaded by a dealer , the small , pristine cooker and the sink pushed against the soft ochre-washed wall as if it was an after-thought . |
| 5 | In other words , in those studies where children heard both more and less in the same trials or same sessions , and where there were more than two responses possible , they showed no evidence of treating less as if it meant more . |
| 6 | In the mid-1960s wage bargaining in the public sector became more politicized and produced frequent confrontations with the central government , regardless of whether it had an incomes policy or not . |
| 7 | The payment would appear in your 1988 accounts , and in the Government 's accounts for 1988/89 , just as if it had been made in August . |
| 8 | The target may make the usual response just as if it had been charged in the normal manner . |
| 9 | The unit must take a fear test immediately just as if it had been charged by an enemy that caused fear . |
| 10 | If engaged in hand-to-hand fighting the unit will break if it fails the test and may be pursued just as if it had been broken in hand-to-hand combat . |
| 11 | A vidicon TV camera can provide an input to such systems , and the image from the TV camera is stored in a memory bank just as if it had been read from a disc file ( as would be the case with a remotely-sensed image ( Chapter 5 ) ) . |
| 12 | Picking up a hefty cleaver he chopped the green skinned creature clean in half as easily as if it had been a stick of celery . |
| 13 | ‘ Did n't I ? ’ said Rose , not as if it had slipped her mind , but as if he had . |
| 14 | No it 's not as if it happened suddenly . |
| 15 | The whole Home Rule movement , with roots going far back into the past , melted quietly away as if it had never been . |
| 16 | Pascoe took his hand away as if it had been stung . |
| 17 | My dear , he was holding it exactly as if it had been a squashed blackbeetle , and I knew he 'd been criticizing me all evening . |
| 18 | Industry watchdog Lautro could have banned the company from selling investment products altogether , but decided not to because it had been co-operative and had acted promptly to beef up its sales methods . |
| 19 | If the representation has been made fraudulently or recklessly ( not caring whether or not it is true ) , then at common law the remedy of rescission is available ( setting the contract aside as if it had never been made at all ) , together with a right to recover any money laid out . |
| 20 | See they got on the lights so long of the day in the winter time and made them lay just like as if it 'd been summer . |
| 21 | Better education opportunities : There was a general sense of dissatisfaction with education provision which seemed to relate more to whether it met people 's needs than the actual range of classes provided . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh , really ? ’ she uttered smugly as if it did n't matter at all . |
| 23 | She made a gesture with a graceful hand that shut me up as if it had turned a tap . |
| 24 | He jerked his hand back as if it had received an electric shock : a cheek nerve had quivered . |
| 25 | For the present , in the daytime , he was abruptly fed up with the lot : himself , his insufficiency , the toll that his financial state seemed to be taking of his wife , and the colossally polite head of his stepson , hanging over him now as if it had a miniature keg of brandy around its neck . |
| 26 | Once the drip was up and the monitor was on I was much less mobile but as I gained confidence I learnt how to put the monitor back on if it stopped working when I moved . |
| 27 | Thus the narrow strict sense of elite , though sometimes used misleadingly as if it had been demonstrated satisfactorily , is rarely applied consistently throughout an argument in modern elite theory . |
| 28 | ‘ The Libyan desert has become an inferno where the front line moves continuously as if it had gone mad , ’ wrote Monelli , an Italian war correspondent . |
| 29 | Charlie Singer appeared in front of the hotel and went towards the railway station , moving fast as if it had suddenly started to rain . |
| 30 | The fact was put neatly by Barbara Betts , later Barbara Castle , when reporting upon the Labour Party Conference in October 1931 : ‘ It was almost as if it feared to probe too deeply lest it should be disillusioned as to the integrity of Uncle Arthur [ Henderson ] . ’ |