Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said it was to prevent the priest being mixed up , it was an opportunity to a new priest to come in and sort of if it had become he could establish groups . |
| 2 | In the mid-1960s wage bargaining in the public sector became more politicized and produced frequent confrontations with the central government , regardless of whether it had an incomes policy or not . |
| 3 | as if it had ever been there . |
| 4 | ‘ Do you want to come over for dinner sometime ? ’ said Jay , as if it had just occurred to her . |
| 5 | Even Scouse 's latrine had disappeared as if it had never been there . |
| 6 | This suspiciously hilarious incident sounds as if it had been polished in the telling , as many hooligan incidents are . |
| 7 | The payment would appear in your 1988 accounts , and in the Government 's accounts for 1988/89 , just as if it had been made in August . |
| 8 | Young lads gather round the car which looks as if it had been dead for days or weeks . |
| 9 | Every room in the house contained some form of Bible and I took up a large ancient looking one and opened it as if it had been a door into a cave . |
| 10 | But if the child is never born alive , things will remain as if it had never existed . |
| 11 | The effect of a decree of nullity , broadly speaking , is that the marriage is treated as if it had never existed . |
| 12 | For Jane , that slice of life evaporated as if it had never existed . |
| 13 | It was dark with age and looked as if it had been coated with treacle . |
| 14 | Marie rammed the drawer shut as if it had burned her fingers . |
| 15 | His crushed throat felt as if it had a lump of stone lodged inside it . |
| 16 | He tried to scream the name but his throat felt as if it had been cauterized with a hot iron . |
| 17 | He jerked his hand back as if it had received an electric shock : a cheek nerve had quivered . |
| 18 | The children stared ravenously at her dress as if it had been spun out of sugar . |
| 19 | The reporter , Mick Brown , followed this story with exemplary tact , or , put it another way , as if it had never struck him that he was talking to loonies . |
| 20 | The idea of siphoning the matured learning of the Universities to the industrial and agricultural areas is as fresh and germane as if it had first been thought of last night . |
| 21 | She said , ‘ Oh , I see , ’ as if it had n't been obvious to her that the photograph was old . |
| 22 | His self-conscious gaucheness vanished as if it had evaporated in the thin cold air of the mountains and he found friends . |
| 23 | Remembered it VIVIDLY — as if it had been yesterday . |
| 24 | I had a chillingly clear picture of its abominable face : it had so many wrinkles and boils it looked as if it had lived for centuries . |
| 25 | For that last half-hour of the day , the dunes became a deeper gold and were scored with the long shadows of palm trees , whose tops were so green that I fancied that if my arm had been long enough I could have plucked a leaf and eaten it as if it had been parsley . |
| 26 | It looked as if it had just been brought home by Susan from Blackpool . |
| 27 | The film cuts from the Black man writing on the blackboard to the grotesque ‘ nigger minstrel'-style head of a Guy , which , as if it had been lynched and hung , falls ominously to its chest . |
| 28 | In the event of your death before the date of maturity your TESSA will be treated as if it had matured at the date of death and gross interest will be paid up to and including that date . |
| 29 | It achieved this , he noted , by pretending to be injured , dragging itself along the ground as if it had a broken wing . |
| 30 | At the end of one hour her back was aching as if it had been kicked all over by a mule ; but she went on doggedly , though it soon became absolute agony . |