Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] as [subord] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her facial skin had absorbed it as if it were the most expensive cosmetic cream . |
| 2 | He received it as if it were a precious relic a saint had just blessed , and folded it carefully . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He let his left hand dangle , inspecting it as if it were an alien object . |
| 6 | She hated it as if it was a personal devil . |
| 7 | I can remember it as if it were yesterday . |
| 8 | Lorre put his arm around the bush , soothing it as if it were a favourite niece in whose person he took an unhealthy interest . |
| 9 | Every room in the house contained some form of Bible and I took up a large ancient looking one and opened it as if it had been a door into a cave . |
| 10 | And er I b I remember him as if it were yesterday . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She had a glass of gin in her hand , but she was not drinking it , just holding it as if it might offer her the cheer and support that she might not otherwise find elsewhere . |
| 13 | I remember it as if it was yesterday . |
| 14 | And er there was the er the kids from his erm he w he was going to school when he died and er there was children from his class walking along cos they we they used to walk to the cemeteries then and carrying a wreath of er flowers , I remember it as if it was yesterday . |
| 15 | She kissed it as if it was a relic and whispered to me la muerta , la muerta . |
| 16 | Somewhere in the corridor , the basement door slammed and Jimmy watched everything as if it was taking place on a stage , and he was a member of the audience . |
| 17 | Windows will then ignore the line , treating it as if it were a comment . |
| 18 | Occasionally when she was wearing this she had a trick of lifting it like wings , or ruffling it as if it was her real plumage , and she 'd declare : ‘ My dears , I am preparing for The Flight — into Egypt , to the islands , to the New World — who knows ! ’ |
| 19 | He discovered the cigarette in his hand and examined it as if it were a mistake . |
| 20 | How dared he treat her as if it was his right to inspect her with that insolent expression on his face ? |
| 21 | For that last half-hour of the day , the dunes became a deeper gold and were scored with the long shadows of palm trees , whose tops were so green that I fancied that if my arm had been long enough I could have plucked a leaf and eaten it as if it had been parsley . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | So do n't treat it as if it 's a harmless filler . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The operands may be of different lengths ; if the first operand is shorter , the computer processes it as if it was extended on the left with zeros ; if the second ( destination ) field is shorter , some of the more significant digits of the result are lost . |
| 27 | I said ju , I said to him then she came on the phone I was o ages on the phone and she said er I said you just take it as if it 's a day off and |
| 28 | She said it as if it was a joke , but Alan knew perfectly well that she meant it from the bottom of her heart . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The reporter picked up his empty lager can and contemplated it as if it were a work of art . |