Example sentences of "it as [subord] it was " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 . |