Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He handed it to me as if it was no more than offering me an apple in a market-place . |
| 2 | Everyone , including the Indians , seemed to be happy and laughing , and in my surly mood I unkindly wished them all in hell — chiefly because no one was in any hurry to serve me and I had to sit and watch a party at the next table consume a feast that looked to me as if it had issued straight from Nirvana , before I was even shown a menu . |
| 3 | And looking at the traffic on the railways , it looks to me as if it 's all absolutely wonderful , hunkydory and everything else , so er unless you 're er er bl s No no no no all the trains right up to the er nine minutes past one Harrogate train er , and the four minutes past one Plymouth train , all seem to be bang on train . |
| 4 | It looks to me as if it 's going to blooming rain again . |
| 5 | It sounds to me as if it could be a bit worrying to think that when you went to see your doctor you 'd be faced by a machine instead of a human being the other side of desk . |
| 6 | It is the excuse given now for all hunting , but the misuse of a concept of a practice like that proves nothing about whether it is itself legitimate . |
| 7 | Grey-faced , he walked the heaving deck towards them as if it was a firm path , and the singing hushed at his coming . |
| 8 | Now you may as a manager think well you do n't have to do it all yourself , you can use senior people within your section who have the knowledge or you can use training officers or you can use people like ourselves at the training centre or the C B T or the I Vs or it could be that you bring the marketing department to help you out . |
| 9 | He holds it away from himself as if it is a mirror , or something equally precious . |
| 10 | He need not concern himself with whether it is actually raining . |
| 11 | I only want you to cos it 'll make it up to three . |
| 12 | Somewhere in the corridor , the basement door slammed and Jimmy watched everything as if it was taking place on a stage , and he was a member of the audience . |
| 13 | Which made it the more regrettable that , in an age when abortion is pressed on one as if it were a free sample , she should have contrived to have four children in six years — unwanted , dubiously parented , ill cared for . |
| 14 | No you you do n't have to rub out the line you can just draw another one as if it 's coming out from a bit you ca n't see . |
| 15 | and any way went down and answer it and I could hear him talking , erm , you remember he bought this aeroplane back from Americ erm from Australia , this one of and it was Australian Air Force one that he had on Australian 's , erm came back and stayed in England for a little while and then he went back to Australia , just killed himself . |
| 16 | It 's not er racial or something like that it was just the general standard of the people which has so much changed . |
| 17 | I mean you know , if you 're talki when you 're talking about training needs , if you have something like that it 's obviously much more formal is n't it . |
| 18 | I remember it was oh about nineteen twenty eight something like that it was . |
| 19 | with a piece of china or something like that it 'll just break . |
| 20 | Er bake or something like that it 's called . |
| 21 | I just thought that something like that it would be very good practice but if you have a related documents to have a record of the enquiry with it would make sense of the enquiry , even if our situation was different to the other divisions . |
| 22 | Er had had such a record , I mean if he 'd smashed just er a lampshade or something like that it would n't have been so bad , but to actually get rid of a third of all the crockery in one fell sloop was er well it was fairly excessive . |
| 23 | Good so it might be it might be something like B R O three or B R O or B R O two something like but it would have oxygen to go with it . |
| 24 | Do you want me to go and get something from cos it 's cheaper . |
| 25 | Erm now whether in by doing this virtually the safes spot but it 's the easiest spot to disperse them from and it 's the easiest spot to get them |
| 26 | As the diesel train came in and people were already picking up suitcases from the platform Moran turned and kissed her as if it were a last good night to all the nights she had come to him . |
| 27 | On her way out she paused , reaching up to slot the dā telo branch between the stones above the lintel , and the bull lowered its head threateningly and took a few steps towards her as if it was going to lunge . |
| 28 | How dared he treat her as if it was his right to inspect her with that insolent expression on his face ? |
| 29 | He sat at the head of the table carefully scrutinising the document in front of him as if it were a religious text which he had to examine for scriptural errors . |
| 30 | But Nick said , ‘ Hallo , Mister Johnny , ’ and went up to him as if it were the easiest and most natural thing in the world . |