Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [prep] [conj] it " in BNC.
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1 | The other major point is that although the audit of a nationalized industry is set up , and therefore presumably carried out as if it were an audit of a PLC , this does not mean that it will always be so . |
2 | So Bill for instance is he to just carry on as if it 's ongoing |
3 | One of the legs just went down as if it was on quicksand . ’ |
4 | The parchment was illuminated : an Englishman stood waist-deep in an ocean of scalloped rills , drawing a galleon of far greater tonnage than any ship Kit had ever sailed in as if it were a child 's toy boat ; he was pulling it towards a pair of islands , like pease puddings , smoking from their rounded summits on the pretty dish of the sea , garnished with sea creatures : one had a spiralling tusk and frilly fins , another a crocodile 's saw-toothed snout . |
5 | Mr Culling said : ‘ It still seems now as if it the whole thing happened yesterday . |
6 | In a title search , for example , a search for an incomplete or garbled title would lead to the choice of a title index display or a search for titles containing the words of the search , and thenceforth behave rather as if it were doing a subject search . |
7 | It 's quite a common event in , and it can be two types , it can be either fixed or flexible , if it 's fixed it means the foot is in a position that you ca n't move out of if it 's flexible it means that the baby has its foot like that but you can actually rotate it |
8 | Do n't go on as if it had happened , ’ he said . |
9 | Thus the narrow strict sense of elite , though sometimes used misleadingly as if it had been demonstrated satisfactorily , is rarely applied consistently throughout an argument in modern elite theory . |