Example sentences of "[prep] it as [subord] it " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He loved the child , and was endlessly kind and thoughtful towards it , as fond of it as if it were his own . |
| 2 | The jade lay concealed in her bag , and she was aware of it as if it were a ton weight on her shoulders . |
| 3 | Any tax charge under ss671 and 672 is assessed under Case VI of Schedule D , and the settlor is entitled to any deduction or relief against it as if it had been received by him as income . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She sat in it as if it were a throne , her back bolt upright inches away from its back , her black flannel skirts smoothed to disguise the fact that only one foot could be conventionally booted . |
| 6 | They never changed the booth they sat in and they found that nobody was ever sitting in it as if it had an invisible reserved sign hanging above it . |
| 7 | His hands are gently folded over it as if it were just a bag of laundry on his lap . |
| 8 | His hand wanders constantly over it as if it were a fine thoroughbred thin-skinned horse . |
| 9 | I started the Food Addict 's Diet and stuck to it as if it were my shadow . |
| 10 | All over Europe they react to it as if it 's a massive hit ; as soon as we start this thing the applause is as if it 's one of your hit singles ! |
| 11 | Water is becoming an increasingly scarce and valuable resource , and to charge for it as if it were free is beginning to look absurd . |
| 12 | I ca n't shake a lingering vision of her straining eagerly against Casey , and I half blame her for it as if it were true . |
| 13 | A bit of fat never did a boy any harm , but we 're not going to pay for it as if it was lean . |
| 14 | Then , reverting to his chosen , statesmanlike stance , he added : ‘ Anyway , we should not be talking about it as if it 's just bread and circuses . |
| 15 | The money that the Minister has provided has been recycled more times than I can count — although he talks about it as if it were new money — and it will run out in April , but there is still no commitment to replace it . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is not a simple case that we can run along , sell a few houses , get the capital receipts and suddenly we can go off and have a wonderful programme and replace the assets which we have sold and when we 're talking about assets in this case I think there 's one crucial difference between us and you and that is we recognise that that is n't just an asset it is a person 's home a person 's home , that 's so important an a I 'm , just to talk about it as if it is is something else , y'know , just some petrified lump of cattle , petrified lump of stock money that was doing no good whatsoever , is a nonsense and I think most of us would agree that it is a complete and utter nonsense . |
| 18 | He held out his leather tobacco pouch : the young man looked at it as if it would bite him who touched . |
| 19 | He stroked her face , and then ran his fingers through her hair , looking at it as if it were made of some delicate , finely spun silk . |
| 20 | The phone went dead and she stared at it as if it had bitten her . |
| 21 | A lurch of painful insecurity made her stare at it as if it were some small , dangerous animal to approach with trepidation . |
| 22 | He swirled the beer in his glass , staring at it as if it was tea and he was reading the leaves . |