Example sentences of "[pers pn] as if it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He handed it to me as if it was no more than offering me an apple in a market-place . |
| 2 | Grey-faced , he walked the heaving deck towards them as if it was a firm path , and the singing hushed at his coming . |
| 3 | On her way out she paused , reaching up to slot the dā telo branch between the stones above the lintel , and the bull lowered its head threateningly and took a few steps towards her as if it was going to lunge . |
| 4 | How dared he treat her as if it was his right to inspect her with that insolent expression on his face ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He sat at the head of the table carefully scrutinising the document in front of him as if it were a religious text which he had to examine for scriptural errors . |
| 7 | But Nick said , ‘ Hallo , Mister Johnny , ’ and went up to him as if it were the easiest and most natural thing in the world . |
| 8 | And er I b I remember him as if it were yesterday . |
| 9 | 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 ! ’ |
| 10 | She hated it as if it was a personal devil . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A bit of fat never did a boy any harm , but we 're not going to pay for it as if it was lean . |
| 13 | She kissed it as if it was a relic and whispered to me la muerta , la muerta . |
| 14 | I remember it as if it was yesterday . |
| 15 | She said it as if it was a joke , but Alan knew perfectly well that she meant it from the bottom of her heart . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He swirled the beer in his glass , staring at it as if it was tea and he was reading the leaves . |
| 18 | It 's a sort of passed on from one generation to the next and it is you know , you will see people , hear people talking about it as if it was yesterday . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He received it as if it were a precious relic a saint had just blessed , and folded it carefully . |
| 21 | He let his left hand dangle , inspecting it as if it were an alien object . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 25 | I started the Food Addict 's Diet and stuck to it as if it were my shadow . |
| 26 | I have a Goniopora coral and my Clownfish lives in it as if it were an anemone , which is not doing it a lot of good . |
| 27 | He loved the child , and was endlessly kind and thoughtful towards it , as fond of it as if it were his own . |
| 28 | Water is becoming an increasingly scarce and valuable resource , and to charge for it as if it were free is beginning to look absurd . |
| 29 | I can remember it as if it were yesterday . |
| 30 | Windows will then ignore the line , treating it as if it were a comment . |