Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if the child is never born alive , things will remain as if it had never existed . |
| 2 | Almost all her errors here were regularisations : for example , she read have as if it rhymed with ‘ cave ’ , lose as if it rhymed with ‘ hose ’ , own as if it rhymed with ‘ down ’ , and steak as if it rhymed with ‘ beak ’ . |
| 3 | I do n't want to sound as if I have n't got sympathy with people 'cause I know it 's bloody hard , but I know a lot of blacks who use it [ blackness ] as an excuse and we 've got to be careful that we do n't use it like that . |
| 4 | One very quick point , sorry erm I do n't want to sound as if I feel I can but er I welcome your comment at the beginning the condition be be left out on what 's going on because I thought this was actually the key function of this committee and I mean I see these are being decision has been taken . |
| 5 | Do n't get me wrong , I like flashy bass playing and it would be wrong for me to sound as if I did n't approve ; it 's just that these kind of situations are always a trade-off . |
| 6 | This type of noise is often from a diff and travels down the tubular propshaft to sound as if it comes from the gearbox and gets louder as the roadspeed increases . |
| 7 | I wondered if she really felt strongly about this or if it was just a habit to sound as if she did . |
| 8 | There were very few human beings I cared for and I cared nothing for cactuses . |
| 9 | This involves stimulating a female cat that is on heat with a glass rod , so that her body is fooled into reacting as if she has been mated by a tom-cat . |
| 10 | For Jane , that slice of life evaporated as if it had never existed . |
| 11 | As regards Goody 's sharp distinction between oral and literate cultures , it demonstrates not only that the social reality does not correspond to this ‘ great divide ’ but also that developing a model which enables one to proceed as if it did so is not the only or most fruitful way of proceeding . |
| 12 | The Snotlings will not move until they are able to move within 12″ of a friendly Orc or Goblin unit , and if charged by enemy troops they are automatically broken as if they had failed a panic or fear test . |
| 13 | Anyone who did n't know him would turn up their nose , looking down on him , but Clary would only laugh as if he enjoyed it . |
| 14 | The position of the litigant who wrongly brings a case under Order 53 is different because Ord. 53 r. 9(5) may allow the case to continue as if it had been started by ordinary writ procedure . |
| 15 | She was deathly pale , her face almost swollen as if she had spent her life in tears . |
| 16 | I saw a man drinking avidly from a green scum-covered marsh , where lay , his black face downward in the water , a dead man lying on his stomach and swollen as if he had not stopped filling himself with water for days … |
| 17 | The fact is , however , that some of the behaviour of electromagnetic radiation is best explained as if it were a stream of photons ; and some of the properties are best explained as if it consisted of a series of waves . |
| 18 | My heart was thumping as if I had run a race and there was a pain in my back . |
| 19 | When Alexei Sultanov , a nineteen-year-old from the USSR , was finally declared the winner , he rushed up on stage and lifted his trophy over his head and yipped with glee and the people of Fort Worth stood and clapped as if they had been seized with divine ecstasy . |
| 20 | We are very prone to pontificate about what teachers should think about but we do not really know what they do think about : we formulate issues on their behalf . |
| 21 | And erm er they will s think about whether they 've got enough , be enough room for the number of people . |
| 22 | When drafting your notes , do think about whether you have provided the report recipients with what they want to read or what they want to consider . |
| 23 | They 're beautiful of course , but it amused me to wonder which artists people in America would think about if you talked about English landscapes . |
| 24 | It was once full of treasures , but all I could think about as I stood on the battlemented roof , looking out over the Aegean , was that a disciple of Christ 's had sat in his cell in a little monastery half-way up the hill recording the extraordinary revelations he had been vouchsafed . |
| 25 | I waited , but he had stopped as if he thought he had said it all . |
| 26 | Iris glowed as if she had received a personal compliment . |
| 27 | Ferdinand VII could believe that , as in Spain itself , the years 1808–14 could be treated as if they had not existed and the ancient order could be restored . |
| 28 | Where assets are finance by leasing agreements that give rights approximating to ownership ( " finance leases " ) , the assets are treated as if they had been purchased outright . |
| 29 | Where assets are finance by leasing agreements that give rights approximating to ownership ( " finance leases " ) , the assets are treated as if they had been purchased outright . |
| 30 | Where assets are financed by leasing agreements that give rights approximating to ownership ( " finance leases " ) , the assets are treated as if they had been purchased outright . |