Example sentences of "[vb base] as [subord] it were " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eat as if it were poison . ’ |
| 2 | Act as if it were already true . |
| 3 | Human thinking and language would dissolve into a topsy-turvy jumble of uncertainty if we were to use the word know as if it were interchangeable with words like guess or dream , or if we were to say right when we really meant wrong . |
| 4 | Somehow I feel as if it were purer — certainly it would be honester- ‘ to do the thing we fear ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ I think , ’ she remarked , ‘ it has pleased God to punish them justly , for they really talkt as if it were impossible they should be beaten . ’ |