Example sentences of "'s [prep] [subord] [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you hear his voice , it 's as if something 's creeping up your cheek . ’ |
| 2 | Our parliamentary group does not appear to be in touch with grassroots opinion — it 's as if they are on another planet . |
| 3 | It 's as if they 're saying : ‘ There 's a ten foot wall — jump over it . ’ |
| 4 | It 's as if they 're expecting you to fail academically ; and , if the teacher expects you to fail , then you begin to believe it yourself and you do . |
| 5 | It 's as if they 're bowling on a totally different pitch . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It 's as if they were being rammed by an invisible man , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Better , yes , better than erm , some , in the old days when you used to take those photo 's they used to be awful did n't they , erm , everybody sort of look 's as if they were staring and sort of all |
| 8 | It 's as if we 're taking responsibility for men 's problem , but if I want to be safe , I feel I have to . |
| 9 | It 's as if we 're rehearsing it : what 's my next line ? |
| 10 | ‘ It 's as if we 're in the moon ? ’ |
| 11 | It 's as if we are taking part not in real life but in a piece of reportage on the British constitutional system ’ ( 22 October 1964 ) . |
| 12 | It 's as if we are gabbling the end of a play we are in . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's as if everyone is waiting for something , is n't it ? ’ |
| 14 | It 's as if she is conducting an experiment , with herself as one of the ingredients . |
| 15 | It 's as if she is away staying somewhere , and we are waiting for her to come back , we can not do anything until she returns . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's as if she 's dead , ’ she says quietly . |
| 17 | And if , it 's as if she were writing a diary , I decided . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's as if there are two markets : the performance that the second liners offer has no relationship with blue chips , ’ one market maker said . |
| 19 | Otherwise it 's as if there 's a monster on the mountain , no , as if some dark being haunts us both . |
| 20 | It 's as if there 's nothing new . |
| 21 | It 's as if there 's a kind of screen before my eyes . |
| 22 | And now , now it 's as if there 's a spiral stairway built out of pure bloody fear . |
| 23 | It 's as if he 's possessed by some Looney Tune demon . |
| 24 | Sometimes it 's as if he 's constantly rejecting the first idea that comes into his mind , and plays the second instead . |
| 25 | It 's as if he 's still here . |
| 26 | It 's a romantic notion I know — but to me , with his system idling yet the brain activity so intense , I think it 's as if he 's trying to come to a decision . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ But it 's as if he 's in the same room . |
| 28 | For instance , ‘ It 's as if he 's everywhere ’ , or , ‘ The man seems to be everywhere ’ , or , more simply , ‘ Uncle Pepi ’ is everywhere ’ . |
| 29 | When Odilo has Herta on the bed , splayed and buckled , with her ankles on either side of the headboard , it 's as if he 's trying to kill something rather than create it . |
| 30 | It 's as if he were giving a performance of some character he 's dreamed up , and his pale eyes wander in search of effect even in his apparently wildest moments . ‘ |