Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] it [vb past] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His face was thin and emaciated , drawn together as if it spent each night in some kind of linen press . |
| 2 | Rupert repeated his earlier greeting and came towards her with a glass jug that looked as if it contained some kind of cocktail . |
| 3 | He held the book out between finger and thumb as if it contained some dangerous virus which at any moment could threaten the whole school . |
| 4 | Idealism , then , simply did not look as if it had much to say about the major events in international relations in the 1930s . |
| 5 | And then , for ten , twenty , forty hours or so the millions sit back to watch the show as the huge tropical storm lashes and bursts and howls its way around the islands , shaking , shuddering and drenching the place as if it held all the concentrated fury of nature and had decided to unleash it upon this one unfortunate spot . |
| 6 | He said it matter of factly , as if it happened all the time . |
| 7 | As well as being practical , the end result will look as if it cost many times as much . |
| 8 | She would be drinking coffee as if it cost less than water , wearing alligator shoes made to fit her pretty feet , and watching at Tommaso 's side a parade of half-naked girls with bracelets round their legs , whirling to a drummer 's flying hands , while a group of handsome , grinning soldiers stood by . |
| 9 | If this were so in the present case , he concealed the fact with remarkable aplomb ; but my impression was that he rather welcomed this degree of personal contact , as if it provided some sort of relief from the heavy intellectual conversation repeatedly forced upon him . |
| 10 | He believed that communications was only different in that it offered some vocational skills . |
| 11 | The River Weaver had been improved in 1733 , but the improvement of the Sankey Brook Navigation from the coalfield around St Helens in 1754 – 7 was especially significant in that it involved several new cuts . |
| 12 | Its advantage was that it worked , in that it gave some hope of understanding why chemical compounds behave as they do ; and it did open the way to symbolizing chemical reactions . |