Example sentences of "[v-ing] as [subord] it [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's a manager , your dad , is n't he ? ’ asked Jamie Shepherd a few minutes later as they bounced round a corner with the old van rattling as if it was going to shake itself to bits at any moment . |
| 2 | His paintings were rather angular , with the nose , in particular , appearing as if it was glued to the canvas in an echo of Cubism . |
| 3 | But she was shaking all over , shivering as if it were a winter 's night . |
| 4 | for example , today the Shetland is invariably black-and-white pied , looking as if it is a distorted Friesian ( which it is not ) , but in 1912 its herdbook recorded only a dozen black or black-and-white bulls outnumbered by a score of duns or dun-and-whites , and there were also reds , blues and greys . |
| 5 | The brain was throbbing rhythmically , looking as if it was trying to well up out of the hole in the scalp . |
| 6 | I suppose I 'd better not tell him that thing you said about his face looking as if it was carved out of corned beef . |
| 7 | Near the Clonmacnoise entrance , the river had overflowed into the fields , beside a misshapen castle tower that perched on a hummock , balanced at an angle and looking as if it were about to fall over . |
| 8 | ‘ No , ’ he said , looking as if it were . |
| 9 | A gang of black workers wearing white loincloths faced the camera gravely , looking as if it were something they might be given to eat . |
| 10 | The loan is being made through the International Finance Corporation ( IFC ) , the bank 's private sector arm , which environmentalists accuse of acting as if it were exempt from the Bank 's environmental directions . |
| 11 | When Dulé and his companions regained the beach , they were so stunned and wearied by the water and the flames , the howling and frantic clangour of their rout , that they dragged themselves and their boat to the first cover they could find , and lay face down against the earth ; they could sense it trembling as if it were an animal alive beneath them . |
| 12 | Trying to define , or speaking as if it were possible to define , ‘ precisely what He meant ’ by saying who He was , was a sort of profanity . |
| 13 | Only we are behaving as if it 's nothing to do with us and that only the West is to blame for the thousands who turn their back on us . ’ |
| 14 | The Venerable David Silk , Archdeacon of Leicester , summing up the theological opposition , said that in ordaining women the Church of England would ‘ cease to be part of the Catholic , apostolic church and would be behaving as if it were the whole of Christianity , or a mere sect ’ . |
| 15 | Doctor Hensman was still in charge , making solemn authoritative pronouncements and predictions , and behaving as if it were he who had cured the patient . |
| 16 | Out of bed , in a companionship reliant upon my entering his fantasy world and behaving as if it were real , we did less well , eventually . |
| 17 | But Alice 's mood : little better than a sulk , and behaving as if it were everyone 's fault but her own … |
| 18 | He does not do this by behaving as if it were his personal project , but by quietly ensuring that things get done as decided . |
| 19 | He does not do this by behaving as if it were his personal project , but by quietly ensuring that things get done as decided . |
| 20 | I had or had had cancer — a most serious disease — yet I had been talking as if it was all a joke . |
| 21 | So it seems to be about school anxiety and exam anxieties and so , but those are very common kinds of dreams , but , but very often when you you find they 're actually about the present , they 're about some recurrent anxiety or conflict in the present which is masquerading as if it were in the past because your associations of what 's going on are connected with the past er one way or another . |