Example sentences of "[noun sg] as if it be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She pulled off her clothes frantically , tearing her blouse , ripping off her skirt as if it were slimed with something dark and evil-smelling . |
| 2 | Thus if an estoppel is raised the unauthorised sale takes effect as if it was authorised — i.e. it transfers ownership to the buyer in the ordinary way ( see section 21(1) , above ) . |
| 3 | Even if you are running Windows there is nothing stopping you from using your machine as if it was working under MS-DOS . |
| 4 | It was therefore natural to test the phonograph as if it were taking down shorthand . |
| 5 | She could recall every sensation as if it were happening again — here , now . |
| 6 | But in this case the enlightened engineer was concerned to do precisely the opposite , and as the digger pulled back the rubble , he exposed an area of wall which looked for a moment as if it was made entirely of shiny cream bones . |
| 7 | ‘ They write this stuff for office workers , ’ Carmichael complains , peering at the newsprint as if it was written in a foreign language . |
| 8 | ‘ The heaven appeared almost all night as if it were burning ’ — AD 1098 . |
| 9 | Only a few shuriken skaters circled lazily — while refugees shunned that area as if it was mined . |
| 10 | I never said that — Jess thought , the ground feeling as if it was weakening under her feet . |
| 11 | ‘ No , ’ Reynolds said , and he shifted his grip on the brown paper as if it were getting hot in his hands . |
| 12 | Do you ever find out why ‘ smart ’ people pronounce the author 's surname as if it were spelt Pole ? |
| 13 | foreshadowed the ‘ construction ’ approach in Lonrho by treating the common law criminal contempt as if it were created by a hypothetical enactment and asking what intention was to be inferred , with regard to civil liability , from the exercise of the contempt jurisdiction . |
| 14 | So he took it , and played something soft and sad , something plaintive and melancholy that rose up every third line as if it was going to shake off its sorrow and fly forward and free ; but then in the fourth it curled back on itself and fell again : reluctantly , sometimes , but always resignedly , as if it knew it was going to fall ; as if it had been striving and falling back again for hundreds of years . |
| 15 | This morning , having forced herself to her study , still wearing her dressing-gown and clutching a second cup of coffee as if it were attached to a lifeline , she began searching among her papers for the output of the previous day . |
| 16 | Gabriel took his Bible from under his arm as if it were loaded , and opened it . |