Example sentences of "and it be [prep] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's just not there any longer ; and it 's as if he 'd never been , for none of the things he said are heard any longer either ; it 's a bad dream , and the Leader does n't have to sleep through it any more . ’ |
| 2 | So that divided forty-nine point two three four by ten and it 's as if I 've moved the point one place back . |
| 3 | And it 's as if it was n't floating on the surface and it was doing all the things that fishes do but it was |
| 4 | Did erm , have you seen this and it 's for when you eh , eh change your week ending . |
| 5 | When the signs are the same if they 're two pluses you add them and it 's plus if they 're both minus you add them and it 's minus here you take the smaller from the larger and give it the sign of a larger . |
| 6 | As we enter more and more into the transcendent , the material world recedes and it is as if we mount the carriage of the transcendent and speed through a blurred landscape of the mundane , seeing it only as scenery , not as something threatening or important to us . |
| 7 | ‘ There is a feeling of deliverance within me and it is as if she and I had stopped being two , and were united for ever and ever . ’ |
| 8 | Every moment then has significance and an aura of delight surrounds everything and it is as if he had found a rare wellbeing and joy . |
| 9 | I says I want to learn sommat so I went to and I do n't know what it was , whether it was my attitude , but they , they asked me to do this and I was so good at it , so they started finding jobs for me and it was at and I was anxious for knowledge , and I tell you took anything on , which is important and the big firms did n't . |
| 10 | ‘ Afterwards we sat down and talked about it and it was as if we were talking about someone else . |
| 11 | The moment Ferdinando left , with only the most cursory of farewells , to go by train and boat to Rome in advance of the main Party , the icy wind which had swept through the city most unexpectedly throughout October suddenly dropped and it was as if it were summer again . |
| 12 | So I did n't do any appropriate sociability there but I think what threw me off is cos I 'd already said Helen to Stephen , I know you and everything and it was as if it was part of the same thing |
| 13 | This place had bred romance after romance , and it was as if it was that she had felt tingling in the air all night , like a presence … |
| 14 | I told him and it was as if I 'd opened Heaven 's door . |
| 15 | The Forest boss said : ‘ I watched him in five-a-side training and it was as if he 'd never been away . |
| 16 | The musical policy of the label had changed — Oldfield thought punk rock ‘ absolutely disgusting music ’ — and it was as if he was no longer important to the label which he had done so much to build . |
| 17 | ‘ He stood watching them , ’ said Raynor , ‘ and it was as if he was searching for something . |
| 18 | Parin 's hand lay on an open book — one of the suras of the Yasa — and it was as if he drew reassurance and strength from it . |
| 19 | And it was as if she had glimpsed the celestial city knowing that she could never enter in . |
| 20 | She looked right at O and Boy when she said this and it was as if she was trying to scare them in particular , even as if she was trying to frighten them away from each other , as if she was saying , to them , and to all of us , this is what you have to go through , right ? |
| 21 | It seemed as bright as day out on the newly-laid forecourt and it was as if she 'd been caught by the lights , trapped and dazed like a rabbit on a long country road . |
| 22 | Now once he got in for his half , half pint in , in the in the passage he 'd have , he 'd have a good swig and , and it was about when he 'd got to bottom of the glass put it down . |