Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] if it were " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you want a new car , then cherish your beaten-up old Ford as if it were a gleaming red convertible . |
| 2 | ‘ I think it would be a good idea if we all had a swim before breakfast , do n't you ? ’ he said , the announcement seized upon with alacrity by the two little girls who , once again , began jumping up and down on the mattress as if it were a trampoline . |
| 3 | ITN 's News at Ten homes in on Big Ben as if it were the only part of London that mattered . |
| 4 | ‘ That 's O.K. , the firm pays for my taxi , ’ I babbled , holding it out to him between trembling fingers as if it were a dead insect . |
| 5 | Although the majority of scientists tend to be a little coy about metaphysical matters in their professional publications , they are often less so outside when writing elsewhere , being prone to describe the framework of presuppositions about perception within which they conduct their investigations as if it were a discovery in its own right and that ‘ discovery ’ an explanation of perception . |
| 6 | Culley pulled on the man 's hair as if it were a bell rope , backhanded him across the throat again , then clamped his hand over Schmidt 's mouth . |
| 7 | They will also dance to an electric light bulb as if it were the sun . |
| 8 | The decision should be made in the first instance as if it were easy to be made . |
| 9 | The thought that Doreen might be pregnant , that the processes of gestation might be irretrievably in motion at that very moment , returned at regular intervals with more and more force , pumping worry into his heart as if it were a balloon . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , Ian , ’ he said , stroking the beard as if it were a favourite pet that had curled up on his chin , ‘ I think we have established incontrovertibly that you are an eidetiker of sorts . |
| 11 | We 've got to realise that there 's going to families out and about , and what we 'll do is the aircraft er I have n't seen the scenario on paper , but just off the top of my head , I can tell you that the aircraft will make their approaches to the base as if it were a real target . |
| 12 | The small khat traders from Djibouti , who travel the route as if it were the local bus , shrieked and angrily rearranged their shawls and robes . |
| 13 | Clutching her stick as if it were an offensive weapon , she made for the door . |
| 14 | Around his waist he wore a broad leather belt with a bone-handled knife clasped in a sheath and as usual in the presence of the coolies his right hand rested on its hilt as if it were a ceremonial sword . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The maid took the plate from her mistress as if it were hot . |
| 17 | Write down this experience as if it were a dream . |
| 18 | Occasionally mainman Simon Breed will become so preoccupied with his crazed exhibition , he neglects the art of singing into the mic , grappling with his guitar as if it were a rabid pitbull while savagely screaming and throwing himself around the stage like an out-take from Nightmare On Elm Street . |
| 19 | The pre-teen Critics ' Forum in Row H demolished John Napier 's whimsical island of snow-capped peaks as if it were papier mache being assaulted by a blowtorch . |
| 20 | Oscars , by contrast , are handed out to an industry that thrives on glittering events and spends money as if it were being withdrawn from circulation tomorrow . |
| 21 | There is a particular kind of French personality who always pronounce the word francais as if it were a football he is heading towards less privileged mortals . |
| 22 | If market interaction takes place repeatedly , however , why is it that firms are assumed to ignore this and treat each decision as if it were a move in a ‘ one-shot ’ game ? |
| 23 | ‘ But it 's not right , ’ said Lydia Horton , looking around the dreary little back-street surgery in the least attractive part of Oswaldston as if it were part of her grievance . |
| 24 | Hermit crabs , however , do not simply put on a shell as if it were a new pullover ; they show two remarkable adaptations to the problems of ‘ wearing ’ the shells of alien snails . |
| 25 | The tactic used by the Commission for passing the Single European Act was to present it to the member states as if it were the only thing on offer : either take this or leave the Community . |
| 26 | There can be tactical reasons for specifically presenting an argument within the traditions of antisemitism as if it were an argument against those traditions . |
| 27 | She came out of Miss Lucchesi 's gate holding her violin case as if it were a weapon . |
| 28 | The Gas , Water and Electricity Companies all had stands as if it were an exhibition . |
| 29 | It was a dazzling Saturday afternoon , and the park was full of contented people : children stood knicker-deep in bliss , stroking the paddling-pool as if it were some great tame animal ; attendant mothers soaked in the sun ; lovers were prone and entranced on the grass . |
| 30 | She pulled off her clothes frantically , tearing her blouse , ripping off her skirt as if it were slimed with something dark and evil-smelling . |