Example sentences of "it as [subord] it [was/were] " in BNC.
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1 | Occasionally when she was wearing this she had a trick of lifting it like wings , or ruffling it as if it was her real plumage , and she 'd declare : ‘ My dears , I am preparing for The Flight — into Egypt , to the islands , to the New World — who knows ! ’ |
2 | She hated it as if it was a personal devil . |
3 | The operands may be of different lengths ; if the first operand is shorter , the computer processes it as if it was extended on the left with zeros ; if the second ( destination ) field is shorter , some of the more significant digits of the result are lost . |
4 | A bit of fat never did a boy any harm , but we 're not going to pay for it as if it was lean . |
5 | She kissed it as if it was a relic and whispered to me la muerta , la muerta . |
6 | I remember it as if it was yesterday . |
7 | She said it as if it was a joke , but Alan knew perfectly well that she meant it from the bottom of her heart . |
8 | And er there was the er the kids from his erm he w he was going to school when he died and er there was children from his class walking along cos they we they used to walk to the cemeteries then and carrying a wreath of er flowers , I remember it as if it was yesterday . |
9 | He swirled the beer in his glass , staring at it as if it was tea and he was reading the leaves . |
10 | It 's a sort of passed on from one generation to the next and it is you know , you will see people , hear people talking about it as if it was yesterday . |
11 | It says the company 's marketing of Cisco is dangerously deceptive ; it induces unsuspecting teenagers to guzzle it as if it were a standard spritzer . |
12 | He received it as if it were a precious relic a saint had just blessed , and folded it carefully . |
13 | He let his left hand dangle , inspecting it as if it were an alien object . |
14 | As E. R. Curtius has pointed out , the pious attitude of the Romans to their past and their tendency to regard it as if it were a part of the present signified a kind of timelessness that excluded a genuinely historical view of the world and was very different from our sense of temporal perspective . |
15 | Although the limb is three-dimensional I will treat it as if it were two-dimensional and only consider position with respect to two axes , the antero-posterior axis which runs across the limb from digit 2 to digit 4 , and the long , or proximo-distal axis , which runs from the shoulder to the tip of the digits . |
16 | Since this became a standard feature of trusts it is not helpful to treat it as if it were dependent solely on an especially close regard for the testator 's intention . |
17 | I started the Food Addict 's Diet and stuck to it as if it were my shadow . |
18 | I have a Goniopora coral and my Clownfish lives in it as if it were an anemone , which is not doing it a lot of good . |
19 | He loved the child , and was endlessly kind and thoughtful towards it , as fond of it as if it were his own . |
20 | Water is becoming an increasingly scarce and valuable resource , and to charge for it as if it were free is beginning to look absurd . |
21 | I can remember it as if it were yesterday . |
22 | Windows will then ignore the line , treating it as if it were a comment . |
23 | Her facial skin had absorbed it as if it were the most expensive cosmetic cream . |
24 | The reporter picked up his empty lager can and contemplated it as if it were a work of art . |
25 | If the line is even , and your position is not critical , treat it as if it were starboard biased : that is , if you want to continue on starboard tack , join the bunch reaching down the line quite early . |
26 | The Leader , so he told his people , had lifted this distempered fog , this old corruption of Italy , and shone a bright blazing torch into the darkness of the bosses ' law , sweetening it as if it were a malarial swamp , squashing the mosquito lawyers and owners and priests breeding in it . |
27 | Lorre put his arm around the bush , soothing it as if it were a favourite niece in whose person he took an unhealthy interest . |
28 | He stroked her face , and then ran his fingers through her hair , looking at it as if it were made of some delicate , finely spun silk . |
29 | I ca n't shake a lingering vision of her straining eagerly against Casey , and I half blame her for it as if it were true . |
30 | She sat in it as if it were a throne , her back bolt upright inches away from its back , her black flannel skirts smoothed to disguise the fact that only one foot could be conventionally booted . |