Example sentences of "[vb base] as [subord] it [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eat as if it were poison . ’ |
| 2 | Why not just ignore the decision and act as if it was never made ? |
| 3 | Act as if it were already true . |
| 4 | You sound as if it 's all in a day 's work . |
| 5 | You said , ‘ let's pretend to be engaged to tease big brother ’ , and you made it somehow seem as if it was a sudden whim . |
| 6 | Like produces like : the blackthorn in spring simulates the depths of winter — a blackthorn hedge in full bloom does , in fact , look as if it is covered with snow or a thick hoar-frost — therefore according to the old principle cold weather is an inevitable and logical consequence . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Jesus , you talk as if it 's booby-trapped or something . |
| 9 | ‘ You talk as if it was an interesting academic problem , ’ Claire snarled . |
| 10 | I 'll tell you this ; every term when I watch that school train go out I feel as if it 's taking two-thirds of me with it . ’ |
| 11 | It 's for a , a couple of weeks there it was n't too bad , but now I feel as if it 's . |
| 12 | I feel as if it 's really deep , |
| 13 | but sometimes you feel as if it 's going to jerk you |
| 14 | I 've got , I feel as if it 's getting and I do n't know if it 's erm to be |
| 15 | Somehow I feel as if it were purer — certainly it would be honester- ‘ to do the thing we fear ’ . |
| 16 | She saw its mouth open and close as if it was attempting to address her . |
| 17 | I watch my face and I watch it move as if it is someone else 's . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . ’ |