Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] if it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Jane , that slice of life evaporated as if it had never existed . |
| 2 | The effect of a decree of nullity , broadly speaking , is that the marriage is treated as if it had never existed . |
| 3 | In the event of your death before the date of maturity your TESSA will be treated as if it had matured at the date of death and gross interest will be paid up to and including that date . |
| 4 | This means that a premium paid during a tax year is treated as if it had been paid during the previous tax year ; or the tax year before that , if there were no relevant earnings in the previous year . |
| 5 | The first is where it is set aside , in which case it is treated as if it had never existed . |
| 6 | In the group accounts , the subsidiary undertaking is treated as if it had always been a member of the group . |
| 7 | An action purporting to have been commenced against a person who is dead at its commencement is treated as if it had been commenced against his estate , whether or not a grant of representation had been issued at its commencement ( Ord 5 , r 8(3) ) . |
| 8 | The line to be edited is now in the input buffer and may be edited as if it had just been typed in . |
| 9 | It was dark with age and looked as if it had been coated with treacle . |
| 10 | At last the restoration was completed and R5868 looked as if it had just come off the production line , a fine tribute to F/L Peaple and his team . |
| 11 | The corpse looked as if it had been attacked by dagger-billed birds . |
| 12 | The furniture , too , looked as if it had been gradually acquired over the years ; gifts , rejects , the unregarded remnants of long-forgotten jumble sales . |
| 13 | The house in California — it was in the Bel Air district of Los Angeles , I think — looked as if it had been flung by a giant hand against the side of a hill and had stuck . |
| 14 | His face had gone very red and looked as if it had been sprayed with water . |
| 15 | The Dome itself , designed by Ralph Tubbs , looked as if it had descended from Mars . |
| 16 | The miniature stainless-steel kitchenette looked as if it had never been cooked in . |
| 17 | From what Wayne had been able to see of her left eye , it had looked as if it had a couple of drops of blood in it . |
| 18 | The gallery itself looked as if it had been carved by some giant sculptor , minute details in the stonework wrought by caring as well as skilful hands . |
| 19 | The room was deserted and desolate : the arctic blue bubble of the drinking water machine looked as if it had turned to ice , two desk lights burned pointlessly above unoccupied desks and the rubbish bins were still brimming with polystyrene cups and waste paper . |
| 20 | The office looked as if it had fallen under the same spell of passing time as Dexter , and been unoccupied for weeks rather than hours — the motes of dust , the grime of London gently settling on files , videotapes and yellowing newspapers . |
| 21 | She was a strange , skinny woman always dressed in dark clothes , and her face looked as if it had never seen the sun . |
| 22 | The room looked as if it had been torn apart . |
| 23 | The open sewer in the high street looked as if it had never been cleaned and at times we squelched ankle deep in human excrement . |
| 24 | And so warm , if felt as if it had substance . |
| 25 | ‘ The evil of Sauron can not be wholly cured ’ , replies Gandalf , ‘ nor made as if it had not been . ’ |
| 26 | She stared up from the ground , her wings hanging loose as if she no longer had strength to hold them to her body , her left wing seeming bent as if it had once been broken . |
| 27 | Even Scouse 's latrine had disappeared as if it had never been there . |
| 28 | It was the first physical contact between them for four years , but for just an instant it had seemed as if it had only been yesterday when she had last touched him . |
| 29 | The large teapots were filled from the boiling urns , and , thanks to the microwaves , the food tasted as if it had been freshly made . |
| 30 | The slight warmth was absolutely gone as if it had never been . |