Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb -s] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | and that was my Barclaycard number in case you want it although I ordered it through the thr phone I made out that so that I could read it off on the telephone I did n't even erm I did n't even assemble it I just looked and I saw it does n't chop I thought it would chop things but does n't , it only grates Looks as though it had been out before , you know , you look at this ! |
| 2 | Any rainfall now will just run straight into the lakes , and it really does look as though all the main waters will be at top level for Spring . |
| 3 | ‘ I know it 's a cliche , ’ she said , standing with David 's hand in the crook of her arm , ‘ but it really does look as though it were floating , as though it might be washed away by the next tide . ’ |
| 4 | It certainly begins to seem as though the materialist philosophy of the last few decades in the West was a myth just like any other , now that science is getting so weird , what with particles travelling back in time , and the fantastic strangeness of the new cosmology and chaos theory ( all those pretty Mandelbrot sets , and stuff about butterflies in China causing storms over the Atlantic ties in perfectly with the New Spirituality ) . |
| 5 | It therefore pays to check as you go ! |