Example sentences of "[be] [prep] if it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither does Poulantzas explain what the peasantry would have been like if it had not had this pertinent effect , except in so far as he stipulates that they would not then have been a class . |
| 2 | What would love be for if it did n't solve everything ? |
| 3 | If you have decided that you want to change things in your life , first you must be able to imagine what your life would be like if it were different . |
| 4 | Please ! ’ she begged , all pride gone and only the shadow left , the thought of what it would be like if it swallowed her up and he should leave her wrenching the words from between her lips . |
| 5 | It 's as if it 's too powerful for choreographers to cope with . |
| 6 | It 's as if it 's what I should have worn all along . |
| 7 | ‘ Sometimes , it 's as if it takes a breathing space . ’ |
| 8 | It 's as if it 's always been . |
| 9 | It 's as if it 's one of the bastions of of male power ! |
| 10 | It had been saddled up ready for him and as Li Yuan stood there , it turned its head curiously , its large dark eyes meeting the prince 's as if it knew its new owner . |
| 11 | It 's as if it never happened . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's as if it had a mind of its own ’ , ’ Grimma read . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | It is as if it is walking through a minefield . |
| 15 | All over Europe they react to it as if it 's a massive hit ; as soon as we start this thing the applause is as if it 's one of your hit singles ! |
| 16 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It was as if it was only when the surf was at its most savage that the ghost of Eddie Aikau could be expected to revisit the Bay . |
| 19 | It was as if it was harbouring some great consuming sadness and had lost the urge to live . |
| 20 | That same night she had gone to Yeoman 's Lane for the last time , accepting without pain that she had thought their love was untouchable , yet now it was as if it had never been . |
| 21 | ‘ It was as if it knew exactly where to go . ’ |
| 22 | He did n't know the doctor and was very disorientated and frightened for the rest of that day and the next ; but on the following one it was as if it had never happened . |
| 23 | As they spoke , neither of them reminded each other of their passion a few hours earlier ; it was as if it had never happened . |
| 24 | About two-thirds of the sacks of refuse had gone , and the pit she had seen was as if it had never been , under a litter of dead leaves where a couple of blackbirds foraged . |
| 25 | The wall was as transparent as glass , but it was as if it revealed only another wall of uniform greyness . |
| 26 | It was as if it were the most natural thing in the world … |
| 27 | It was as if it meant that you should love yourself as much as you should love other people . |
| 28 | It was as if it had all been planned . |
| 29 | 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 |
| 30 | 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 … |