Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] if it be " 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 | So , you can rotate , stretch and generally fiddle with text as if it was a square or what have you . |
| 3 | I swilled down the half-pint of champagne as if it was bitter lemon . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They will also dance to an electric light bulb as if it were the sun . |
| 7 | The decision should be made in the first instance as if it were easy to be made . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Clutching her stick as if it were an offensive weapon , she made for the door . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The maid took the plate from her mistress as if it were hot . |
| 15 | Write down this experience as if it were a dream . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They had stopped to get some fruit for her , and the stall-holder had insisted that it was a gift , refusing Michael 's money as if it was the norm to give his produce away for free . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | If you do not have the luxury of a dining room used just for dining — and most of us do not , the trick is to make your dining table look as if it is not a dining table most of the time . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | There can be tactical reasons for specifically presenting an argument within the traditions of antisemitism as if it were an argument against those traditions . |
| 24 | She came out of Miss Lucchesi 's gate holding her violin case as if it were a weapon . |
| 25 | To speak of religion as if it is a ‘ primordial form ’ or an ‘ entity ’ is to hypostasize it . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She pulled off her clothes frantically , tearing her blouse , ripping off her skirt as if it were slimed with something dark and evil-smelling . |
| 28 | He , Drew , was stroking a car as if it were a cat or dog . |
| 29 | And once the people have disappeared , it then becomes possible to manipulate the ‘ population ’ in your mind as if it were any other variable in a mathematical equation . |
| 30 | And once the people have disappeared , it then becomes possible to manipulate the ‘ population ’ in your mind as if it were any other variable in a mathematical equation . |